Herschel Data Processing Workshop for Newcomers, 24-27 June 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Participants
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
Useful Links
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:
-
- 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.
Draft Agenda
Herschel Data Processing Workshop for Newcomers, 24-27 June 2013
Draft Agenda
Monday 24 June 2013
GENERAL ISSUES (@ Room B3)
09:15-09:30: |
Welcome, local set-up and start of webex session |
09:30-09:45: |
Welcome to Herschel Data Processing |
S.Ott |
09:45-10:00: |
Welcome to the Herschel Science Archive |
P.García-Lario |
10:00-10:30: |
An introduction to the HSA User Interface |
E.Verdugo |
10:30-11:00: |
An introduction to HIPE |
B.Merín |
11:00-11:30: |
Coffee break |
11:30-11:45: |
Q&A on HSA/HIPE general issues |
11:45-12:15: |
Data Handling in HIPE |
E.Verdugo |
12:15-13:00: |
Quick inspection of Herschel data products |
B.Merín |
13:00-13:30: |
Q&A on HSA/HIPE data handling and quick inspection of products |
14:30-16:00 |
Hands-on session - Part I (HSA/data access/data handling) |
16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
16:30-18:00 |
Hands-on session - Part II (HIPE general issues/quick inspection of products) |
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
10:30 |
Calibration and data processing pipeline overview |
R. Vavrek |
11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee break |
11:30 |
Demo 2: Interactive reduction of a Line Spectroscopy observation |
R. Vavrek |
12:00 |
Demo 3: Line fitting and flux extraction for mapping observations |
K. Exter |
12:30 |
Hands-on session |
PACS Spectroscopy tutorials
13:30 - 14:30 |
Lunch break |
16:00 - 16:30 |
Coffee break |
16:30 |
PACS photometry:mapping algorithms for extended emission |
V.Doublier-Pritchard/B.Altieri |
17:00 |
PACS photometry: ipipes tutorials / Hands-on session |
B.Altieri |
Wednesday 26 June 2013
SPIRE (@ Room B3)
09:00-09:30: |
Quick introduction to SPIRE photometer products and data processing |
Luca Conversi |
09:30-11:00: |
SPIRE Photometry Tutorials |
Luca Conversi |
11:00-11:30: |
Coffee break |
|
11:30-12:00: |
Q&A on SPIRE Photometry |
Luca Conversi |
12:00-12:30: |
Quick introduction to SPIRE FTS products and data processing |
Ivan Valtchanov |
12:30-13:10: |
SPIRE Spectroscopy Tutorial |
Ivan Valtchanov |
13:10-13:30: |
Q&A on SPIRE Spectroscopy |
Ivan Valtchanov |
13:30-14:30: |
Lunch break |
|
14:30-15:00 |
Quick introduction to photometry with SPIRE |
Luca Conversi |
15:00-16:00 |
Hands-on session - Part I (SPIRE Photometry) |
Luca Conversi |
16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
|
16:30-18:00 |
Hands-on session - Part II (SPIRE Spectroscopy) |
Ivan Valtchanov |
Thursday 27 June 2013
HIFI (@ Room B3)
09:00-10:00: |
HIFI observing modes and associated data processing products |
Anthony Marston |
10:00-10:30: |
Running HIFI pipelines - general and alternatives: Tutorial 1 |
Anthony Marston |
10:30-11:00: |
Q&A on HIFI Tutorial 1 |
11:00-11:30: |
Coffee break |
11:30-12:15 |
Remaining issues: Handling HIFI electrical and optical standing waves, tutorial 2 |
Elena Puga |
12:15-13:00 |
Basic HIFI data analysis and data export, tutorial 3 |
Anthony Marston |
13:00-13:30: |
Q&A on HIFI Tutorials 2 and 3 |
14:30-16:00 |
Hands-on session - Part I (HIFI), point source modes |
16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break |
16:30-18:00 |
Hands-on session - Part II (HIFI), maps and spectral scans |
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.
PACS Phot: |
1342215720 and 1342215721 |
GX 339-4 |
Point-like source |
PACS Phot: |
1342185575 and 1342185576 |
Sh104 |
Extended source |
PACS Phot: |
1342185553 and 1342185554 |
RCW120 |
Extended source - but requires more memory! |
SPIRE Phot: |
1342183678 |
RCW 120 |
|
HIFI Single Point: |
1342242856 |
W28A |
|
PACS Line Spec: |
1342182002 |
NGC 5315 |
|
PACS Range Spec: |
1342231295 |
NGC 2440 |
will be used in demo |
PACS Range Spec: |
1342197795 |
R Dor |
will be used in demo |
PACS Line Spec: |
1342191294 |
NGC1365 |
will be used in demo |
SPIRE Spec: |
1342256105 |
IRC+10216 |
Nice spectrum |
|
1342214831 |
NGC6240 |
will be used in demo |
|
1342214832 |
dark sky for NGC6240 |
will be used in demo |
|
1342203586 |
SPIRE Photo map of NGC6240 |
will be used in demo |
|
1342265845 |
SPIRE Spectral map of Orion Bar (HD37041) |
will be used in hands-on |
SPIRE PACS Parallel: |
1342186121, 1342186122 |
Rosette Nebula |
Nice image |
Additional workshop material
PACS Spectroscopy tutorials
PACS Photometry tutorials
SPIRE Photometry tutorials
- MapMerged_TAR.py.txt: tutorial to merge 2 (or more) observations and calculate the absolute offset from cross-calibration with Planck.
(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)