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 | We have database blocktime every Tuesday from 6 to 9 AM Pacific time. You may not be able to retrieve data or view programs during this time because the archive servers are down. |
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| How long does it take to download data? | |
| It can vary a lot from program to program, but a baseline number to stage and retrieve data is something like 30 min / AOR. |
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| How long does it take to get data after it's been observed? |  |
| It can vary, but up to 3-4 weeks. See the page on how the Archive works. |
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| What do I do with the zip file(s) Leopard puts on my disk? | |
| To uncompress the files Leopard puts on your disk, type "unzip foo.zip". To uncompress multiple files at once, type "unzip '*.zip'" (the single quotes are important), or "unzip \*.zip" -- you just have to escape out the wildcard. |
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| What is the filenaming scheme for all these files? | |
| If you look either in the individual instrument pages (IRAC, IRS, MIPS |
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| I've got a password for checking in my program through Spot. Is that all I need to access the archive? | |
| No, your program password (aka "Spot password") is not the same as your archive password (aka "Leopard password"), sorry! If you want to access publicly accessible data through Leopard, you do not need a password. If you want to access p |
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| Leopard says that these data should be public today, but I'm getting error messages when I try to download it. | |
| Despite the fact that Leopard only displays the date (not the time), the data are released to the second after the proprietary period expires, e.g., 2004-07-27 17:51:34.000, not just 2004-07-27. Try again tomorrow, and these data will be available.
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| What time keywords should I use from the header for the exact start of my AOR? | |
| In a nutshell, DATE_OBS is the most accurate, absolute measurement for comparing with astronomical emphemerides. SCLK_OBS (in real sec) is good for relative timing comparisons within an AOR or even a campaign.
More words on this:
The DATE_OBS value is |
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| When do Legacy Science data enter the public domain? | |
| Raw and pipeline-processed Legacy Science data from Spitzer enter the public domain once they are processed and verified at the SSC. This will typically take up to a few weeks after the obser |
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| How do I get access to my data? | |
| Instructions on how to access your data can be found on the Data Archives page. |
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| What are the Post-BCD (pbcd) data products I downloaded from Leopard, and can I use them for science? | |
| The pbcd products available from the archive are intended as quick-look images of your data only, and great care should be taken if using them for science. Post-BCD products have been produced with generic namelists, so the parameters have not been optimi |
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| How can I tell which pipeline processed my data? How can I tell if my data have been reprocessed under the most recent pipelines? | |
| This is a multi-step process at least at the moment.
Check the header of one of your BCD files and look for the keyword 'CREATOR'. (e.g., imhead blah_bcd.fits | grep CREATOR) This is the software version used to process your data.
Check th |
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| I want to give someone else access to my proprietary data. What do I do? | |
| To grant someone else access to proprietary data, the primary investigator (PI) of the program should contact the Spitzer helpdesk (help@spitzer.caltech.edu) and ask that the person be granted acces |
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| No warm mission programs are returned when I search for them in Leopard by 'Program' | |
| This bug happens when using Leopard to find warm mission post cryo mapping programs. If you de-select IRS and MIPS in the Query: By Program dialog, no warm mission programs will be returned.
Fix: Select all three instruments in the Query: By Program di |
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