Herschel Data Processing Workshop for Newcomers, 24-27 June 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Participants

• List of participants (PDF)

Venue

The workshop will be held at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) (Rooms B3/B5) situated near Villanueva de la Cañada, about 30kms North-West of Madrid.

Maps and driving directions to ESAC from Madrid airport (Barajas) and Madrid city centre can be found here.

Transportation & Accommodation

A shuttle mini-bus will depart from the entrance gate of Hotel NH Alberto Aguilera at 08:15h sharp every morning to bring the workshop participants from Madrid to ESAC. The same shuttle service will also take the participants from ESAC to the hotel in Madrid at the end of the afternoon sessions from Monday to Wednesday.

On Thursday afternoon taxis will be arranged to go from ESAC to the airport (no mini-bus service will be available).

Participants need to make their own reservations directly with the hotel. Below is a list of recommended hotels in Madrid.

   Hotel NH Alberto Aguilera ***
   Calle Alberto Aguilera, 18
   28015 Madrid
   Tel: +34 91 4460900 
   Fax: +34 91 4460904 
   E-mail:  nhalbertoaguilera@nh-hotels.com

   Hotel Celuisma Florida Norte ****
   Paseo de la Florida, 5
   28008 Madrid
   Tel: +34 91 5428300
   Fax: +34 91 5477833

   Holiday Inn - Madrid - Piramides ***
   Paseo de las Acacias, 40  
   28005 Madrid
   Tel: +34 91 5171828 
   Fax: +34 91 5170090 

   Tryp Gran Vía ***
   Gran Vía, 25
   28013 Madrid
   Tel: +34 91 5221121
   Fax: +34 91 5212424 

Useful Links

• Madrid/Barajas Airport (Courtesy of the Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea - AENA)

• Transport Information System of Madrid (Courtesy of the Consorcio de Transportes de Madrid)

• The Madrid Metro Map (Courtesy of the Metro de Madrid)

• Weather forecast (Madrid) (Courtesy of the Agencia Estatal de Meteorología -AEMET)

Download the latest HIPE User Release Candidate (HIPE 11.0.0 RC2)

What is HIPE?

HIPE stands for 'Herschel Interactive Processing Environment'. This is the software for browsing, analyzing and reprocessing Herschel data.

Which version of HIPE do I need?

The latest version of HIPE 11 (Release Candidate #2) will be the version of HIPE that will be used during the workshop. This version of HIPE (11.0.0 RC2) can be downloaded from the links below. Please install HIPE on your personal laptop (minimum requirements: RAM 4GB) in advance to the start of the workshop following the installation instructions given below for the different operating systems. Report any problems during the installation process through the HSC Helpdesk.

Important note: You have to keep your internet connection on during the process as you download all the necessary components during the installation.

Note that this is an advanced version of HIPE 11 which is still undergoing the final acceptance tests before it becomes an official user release, something that we anticipate will happen in July.

Release candidates (RCs) are made available for internal use only. Do not distribute this software!.

The available installers for Windows and Linux come with a 32 or a 64 bit virtual machine (VM). The available installer for Mac OS X does not come with a virtual machine but will use the one available at your system.

Download HIPE 11.0.0 RC2

HIPE Installation Instructions

• Windows Instructions:
  • After downloading, double-click HIPE_11_0_0_RC2_INSTALLER.exe

• Linux Instructions:
  • To download the linux installer you should do a right click and then "save link as"
  • After downloading open a terminal and, cd to the directory where you downloaded the installer.
  • At the prompt type: sh ./HIPE_11_0_0_RC2_INSTALLER.bin

• Mac OS X Instructions:
  • After downloading, double-click HIPE_11_0_0_RC2_INSTALLER

• In the eventual case of problems with these GUI-based installers, you can always use the command line installer following the instructions below:

• • 1.- retrieve the hcss.installer.zip file from http://herschel.esac.esa.int/hcss/install.php

• • 2.- unzip the file

• • 3.- and from the command line type >./hcss.installer hcss 11.0 2825, this installs the exact same software as the graphical installer.

• • 4.- Once it is installed, you can run the application by calling hcss-11.0.2825/bin/hipe

Calibration contexts applicable for HIPE v11

In order to process data with HIPE v11 you may also need to download the corresponding calibration tree.

• SPIRE calibration tree, spire_cal_11_0 is available from here. More details on how to get and install the latest calibration are provided here.

HIPE Users' Documentation

Please have a look at the on-line HIPE 11 documentation clicking on the link below.

• HIPE 11 on-line documentation

Draft Agenda

Herschel Data Processing Workshop for Newcomers, 24-27 June 2013

Draft Agenda

Monday 24 June 2013

GENERAL ISSUES (@ Room B3)

Tuesday 25 June 2013

PACS (@ Room B3)

Spectrometer Session I: Overview of PACS Spectroscopy data and their outlook in HIPE

Spectrometer Session II: Processing data for scientific use

PACS Spectroscopy tutorials

• PACSspec_demo_kexter_v2.pdf: PACSspec_demo_kexter_v2.pdf

• PACSspec_demo_kexter_v2.py.txt: PACSspec_demo_kexter_v2.py.txt

Wednesday 26 June 2013

SPIRE (@ Room B3)

Thursday 27 June 2013

HIFI (@ Room B3)

Sample Datasets

These are some OBSIDs that you can use for your tests with the sysyem. Enjoy Herschel data! The PACS Range Spectroscopy ones will be used during the demos tomorrow.

Additional workshop material

PACS Spectroscopy tutorials

• PACSspec_demo_kexter_v2.pdf: PACSspec_demo_kexter_v2.pdf

• PACSspec_demo_kexter_v2.py.txt: PACSspec_demo_kexter_v2.py.txt

PACS Photometry tutorials

• PSF_comp.py.txt: PSF subtraction script by Zoltan Balog

SPIRE Photometry tutorials

• Remove_CoolerBurp.py.txt: tutorial to remove booler burp from affected observations

• MapMerged_TAR.py.txt: tutorial to merge 2 (or more) observations and calculate the absolute offset from cross-calibration with Planck.
  • The script assumes you have the 2 parallel mode observations of Rosette Nebula (1342186121, 1342186122) copied on your hard drive.
  • You also need to copy the following files in the same directory: DX9_map_545_smooth_8arcmin.fits, DX9_map_857_smooth_8arcmin.fits and SpireHfiColourCorrTab_v1.1.fits

• Remove_Glitches.py.txt: tutorial to find and remove undetected glitched from maps

• SPIRE_Photometry.py.txt: tutorial running different photometry algorithm on the calibration star Gamma Dra

(NOTE: you may need to remove the .txt from the filenames associated to the python scripts above so that these files can be recognized as python scripts by HIPE - the .txt suffix is added automatically by the twiki for security reasons)