In addition to the main AO documentation and tools listed above, other complementary information and tools are also available through the HSC web pages. Among them:
Herschel Background Estimator: This is the infrared background estimator provided in HSpot, which is an extended version of the tool developed for the Spitzer Space Observatory. The background estimator provides the total brightness at a given sky position, as well as the breakdown into its components over the entire Herschel wavelength range.
Herschel Confusion Noise Estimator (HCNE): The HCNE provides estimates for the confusion noise (i.e. uncertainty of flux determination due to the sky background) for the photometric bands of the Herschel PACS and SPIRE instruments. The confusion noise is specific for the selected observing mode and is derived considering the two main astrophysical components in the far-infrared: the Galactic cirrus and the cosmic infrared background.
Presentations given at the Herschel First Results Symposium (aka ESLAB 2010) held on 4-7 May 2010 are publicly available.
The accepted papers for the Herschel Special Letters Issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics - and as time progesses for other issues and other journals - are generally available on astro-ph.