Cécile Gry, Bruce Swinyard, Andrew Harwood, Norman Trams, Sarah Leeks, Tanya Lim, Sunil Sidher, Christopher Lloyd, Stefano Pezzuto, Sergio Molinari, Rosario Lorente, Emmanuel Caux, Edward Polehampton, Josephine Chan, Gerard Hutchinson, Thomas Müller, Martin Burgdorf, and Timothy Grundy

ISO Data Centre, Science Operations and Data Systems Division, Research and Scientific Support Department of ESA, Villafranca del Castillo, P.O. Box 50727, E-28080 Madrid, Spain
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot OX11 OQX Oxfordshire, UK
Science Operations and Data Systems Division of ESA/ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, Postbus 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Herschel Science Centre, Research and Scientific Support Department of ESA, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, Postbus 299, 2200 AG Noordwijk, The Netherlands
IFSI-CNR, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma , Italy
CESR, BP4346, 31028 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, 85748 Garching, Germany
SIRTF Science Center, California Institute of Technology, 220-6, Pasadena, CA91125, USA

Document Information

Document:	 	The ISO Handbook


Volume:		 	III


Title:		 	LWS - The Long-Wavelength Spectrometer


Reference Number:	SAI/99-077/Dc


Issue:		 	Version 2.1


Issue Date:		June  2003


Authors:		C. Gry, B. Swinyard, A. Harwood et al.


Editors:		T. Müller, J. Blommaert & P. García-Lario


Web-Editor:		J. Matagne

  

Document History

The ISO Handbook, Volume III: LWS - The Long Wavelength Spectrometer, is based on the following documents:

• The ISOLWS Data Users Manual (SAI/95-219/Dc, Issue 5.0 June 1, 1998), N. Trams, using inputs from: M. Burgdorf, C. Gry, T. Lim, S. Pezzuto, A. Harwood, S.J. Leeks, P.E. Clegg, B. Swinyard, K. King, S. Lord, S. Unger.
• The LWS observer's manual (Issue 1.0, March 1994, LWS/PEC/2038.01), prepared by the LWS consortium and written by: P.E. Clegg, A. Heske, N.R. Trams.
• The Addendum to the LWS OBSERVER'S MANUAL (SAI/96-166/Dc, Version 1.0, 5 August 1996), N.R. Trams, P.E. Clegg and B.M. Swinyard.

Document Change Record

Date	Revision	Comments
31/12/99	Draft 1.0	Initial Draft for comments
11/02/00	Version 1.0	First Version of the ISO Handbook, Volume IV:
		LWS - The Long-Wavelength Spectrometer
		related to OLP 8.6 data products
November 2000	Version 1.1	update
June 2001	Version 1.2	update, related to OLP 10.0 data products
August 2002	Version 2.0	update, now Volume III
June 2003	Version 2.1	update, printed version

Acknowledgements

The following pages list the many people and teams who have contributed to the development, the operations, the science planning, the data-analysis and the calibration of the LWS.
The information contained in this handbook results from their work.

LWS Instrument Principal Investigator:

Peter Clegg (QMW London)

The LWS was conceived and built in the following institutes:

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), Didcot, UK
Queen Mary and Westfield College (QMW), London, UK
University College London (UCL), London, UK
Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale (LAS), Marseille, F
Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements (CESR), Toulouse, F
Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI), Roma, I
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), USA.