SPIRE Calibration Product Details

The following tables give details of each SPIRE calibration product. The link in the first column goes to a technical note describing the derivation of the contents of each calibration product. Note that this page is a work in progress!

Photometer Calibration Products

Name (& link to document)	Product Description	Dependency	Additional information
SCalPhotApertureEfficiency	Photometer Aperture Efficiency
SCalPhotBeamProf	Photometer Beam Profiles	arrayName
SCalPhotBolPar	Bolometer Parameter Table		see also the updated BoDAC spreadsheet
SCalPhotBsmOps	BSM Operations Table	time
SCalPhotBsmPos	BSM Position Table
SCalPhotChanMask	Channel Mask Table	time	some updates made since document written
SCalPhotChanGain	Channel Gain Table		additional information on JFET gains
SCalPhotChanNoise	Detector Noise Spectrum	biasMode, time
SCalPhotChanNum	Channel Number Mapping Table
SCalPhotChanRelGain	Channel Relative Gains Table		see also this document
SCalPhotChanTimeConst	Channel Time Constants		Numbers from the updated BoDAC spreadsheet (NaN replaced with median value for array) - see also the document for the BolPar product
SCalPhotChanTimeOff	Channel Time Offset Table
SCalPhotColorCorrAperture	Aperture Correction Product	apertureCorrectionType
SCalPhotColorCorrBeam	Beam corrections with spectral index and temperature
SCalPhotColorCorrHfi	SPIRE-Planck HFI cross-calibration colour correction
SCalPhotColorCorrK	Colour Correction Product	source type
SCalPhotDetAngOff	Detector Angular Offset Table	aperture
SCalPhotElecCross	Electrical Crosstalk Matrix
SCalPhotFluxConv	Flux Conversion and Non-linearity Correction Coefficients	biasMode, time	described in Bendo et al. (2013)
SCalPhotInstModeMask	Instrument Mode Mask Table	time
SCalPhotLpfPar	Low Pass Filter Parameter Table
SCalPhotOptCross	Optical Crosstalk Matrix		no crosstalk: cal file not used
SCalPhotPcalModel	PCAL Response Model
SCalPhotRadialBeamCorr	Beam correction product
SCalPhotRsrf	Photometer RSRF
SCalTelemMask	Telemetry Mask Table	time	no unreliable telemetry (empty product)
SCalPhotTempDriftCorr	Temperature Drift Correction Coefficients	biasMode, time

Spectrometer Calibration Products

Name (& link to document)	Product Description	Dependency	Additional information
SCalSpecBandEdge	Spectral Band Edges
SCalSpecBeamParam	Spectrometer Beam Parameters & Point source flux conversion	res, time
SCalSpecBeamProf	Spectrometer Beam Profiles	arrayName	derivation described in Makiwa et al. (2013)
SCalSpecBolPar	Bolometer Parameter Table		see also the updated BoDAC spreadsheet
SCalSpecBolPhase	Bolometer Phase Table	time
SCalSpecBrightGain	Bright Mode Gain Table	time	see also Lu et al. (2014)
SCalSpecBsmOps	BSM Operations Table	time
SCalSpecBsmPos	BSM Position Table
SCalSpecChanGain	Channel Gain Table		additional information on JFET gains
SCalSpecChanMask	Channel Mask Table	time
SCalSpecChanNum	Channel Number Mapping Table
SCalSpecChanTimeConst	Channel Time Constants
SCalSpecChanTimeOff	Channel Time Offset Table
SCalSpecDetAngOff	Detector Angular Offset Table	aperture
SCalSpecElecCross	Electrical Crosstalk Matrix		no crosstalk: cal file not used
SCalSpecInstRsrf	Spectrometer Instrument RSRF	res, time	derivation described in Fulton et al. (2014)
SCalSpecLpfPar	Low Pass Filter Parameter Table
SCalSpecNonLinCorr	Non-linearity Correction Coefficients	biasMode, time
SCalSpecOpdLimits	Interferogram OPD Limits
SCalSpecOptCross	Optical Crosstalk Matrix		no crosstalk: cal file not used
SCalSpecPcalModel	PCAL Response Model
SCalSpecPhaseCorrLim	Band Limits for Phase Correction
SCalTelemMask	Telemetry Mask Table	time	no unreliable telemetry (empty product)
SCalSpecSmecStepFactor	SMEC Step Factor to convert from MPD to OPD
SCalSpecSmecZpd	Optical Encoder and LVDT DC at ZPD	time
SCalSpecTeleModel	Telescope Model Coefficients		derivation described in Hopwood et al. (2014)
SCalSpecTeleRsrf	Spectrometer Telescope RSRF	jiggId, res, time	derivation described in Fulton et al. (2014)
SCalSpecTempDriftCorr	Temperature Drift Correction Coefficients	biasMode, time	not actually used in the pipeline
SCalSpecLrCorr	Empirical LR Correction for SLW	res	Introduced in spire_cal_14_0
SCalSpecOpdCorr	Empirical OPD Correction		Introduced in spire_cal_14_0
SCalSpecExtCorr	Empirical Extended Source Calibration Correction		Introduced in spire_cal_14_0

Spectrometer Calibration Products that are no longer used