Previous News

AKARI Catalogues

The AKARI North Ecliptic Pole Survey



• The AKARI-NEP-Deep Source Catalogue

• The AKARI-NEP-Wide Source Catalogue




The AKARI Infrared Camera Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud



• The AKARI-LMC Point Source Catalogue

• The AKARI-LMC Near-infrared Spectroscopic Catalogue

  
  

  The AKARI Asteroid Catalogue (AcuA)

  
  • Access to data file and the Release note (on DARTS)

  • Reference paper (Usui et al. 2011, PASJ, 63, 1117-1138) on ADS
  
  

  The AKARI Point Source Catalogues Version 1

  
  • Access to data files and the Release notes

  • AKARI Catalogue Archive System (AKARI-CAS) on DARTS: Catalogue mining tools
  
  

AKARI related publications

Data Archive

• How to retrieve the data
• AKARI archive on DARTS

• On the updates of STT WDT Error status (New! 2010/06/24)

AKARI Data Archive is maintained in DARTS by C-SODA/ISAS.

Data Reduction Support (MP/OT)

[Software and data reduction support pages]

• FIS Data Reduction Support Page [FTS mode Toolkit (Part 1) version 20080530 released 2008/06/04]
• IRC Data Reduction Support Page [Imaging Toolkit Version 20110225 released 2011/03/01]

[Data User's Manual]

• AKARI FIS Data Users Manual ver.1.3 (2007/09/14) [PDF (4.1MB)] [ps.gz (4.2MB)] [Change Log]
• AKARI IRC Data Users Manual ver.1.4 (2008/06/03) [PDF (2.6MB)] [ps.gz (6.7MB)] [Change Log]
• AKARI IRC Data Users Manual for Phase 3 data ver.1.1 (2009/08/26) [PDF (4.3MB)] [ps.gz (8.6MB)] [Change Log]

[Response Functions]

• IRC Relative Spectral Response Functions (RSRFs) (07/01/15)
(pre-launch version) (05/05/29)
• FIS Relative Spectral Response Functions (RSRFs) (07/02/23)

Observation Programme

[AKARI Post-Helium (Phase3) Mission 2nd year]

• Open Time Programmes: Proposals call documents and the approved programmes.
• Abstracts of the MP Phase 3-II observations [PDF; 916 kB]

• AKARI Phase 3 Workshop: November 13, 2009 [2.3 MB] (2009/12/03)

[Previous Open-Time Observations]

• Phase 2 (cold phase) OT call and observations.
• Phase 3 (Post-Helium) OT call and observations.

[Observers Manual]

• AKARI Observer's Manual Ver.1.2 (English: PDF [1.9 MB]: 09/05/27)
  The latest version manual for the Phase 3-II proposal preparation.

  Pre-launch version (ASTRO-F Observer's Manual ver. 3.2) is also available from here.

• Notes for the AKARI Observers These notes are relevant for the ASTRO-F Observer's Manual ver. 3.2.
  • IRC Instrument Status (06/05/26) [New]
    [English; PDF; 56 kB] [Japanese; PDF; 83 kB]
  • [IMPORTANT!] Correction for the AOT FIS02 and IRC11 position parameter. (06/05/26)

[Support tools]

• Visibility Tool (06/04/29 interactive version. Phase 3 OT users are recommended to use the faster dedicated version from the Call for proposal page.
• Target list Validity Check Tool (for Phase 3 OT)
• iris_sky (ver. 1.72: 08/07/05)
  A bug fix about 2MASS image retrieving.

Documents

[Data User's Manual]

• AKARI FIS Data Users Manual ver.1.3 (2007/09/14) [PDF (4.1MB)] [ps.gz (4.2MB)] [Change Log]
• AKARI IRC Data Users Manual ver.1.4 (2008/06/03) [PDF (2.6MB)] [ps.gz (6.7MB)] [Change Log]
• AKARI IRC Data Users Manual for Phase 3 data ver.1.1 (2009/08/26) [PDF (4.3MB)] [ps.gz (8.6MB)] [Change Log]

[Observers Manual]

• AKARI Observer's Manual Ver.1.2 (English: PDF [1.9 MB]: 09/05/27)
  The latest version manual for the Phase 3-II proposal preparation.

  Pre-launch version (ASTRO-F Observer's Manual ver. 3.2) is also available from here.

• Notes for the AKARI Observers These notes are relevant for the ASTRO-F Observer's Manual ver. 3.2.
  • IRC Instrument Status (06/05/26) [New]
    [English; PDF; 56 kB] [Japanese; PDF; 83 kB]
  • [IMPORTANT!] Correction for the AOT FIS02 and IRC11 position parameter. (06/05/26)

[Messages to the Users]

• 2006/09/23: Re: Announcement on the revision of IRC00
• 2006/09/26: Re: Distribution of the AKARI Open Time Observation Data
• 2006/10/17: FIS in-orbit performance (updated incl. CDS mode)

[Newsletter]

• AKARI (ASTRO-F) Newsletter Issue #24 (08/09/23)

For Mission Program Users

• Mission Programme Page (access restricted)

• All inqueries about the AKARI Mission should be sent to the Helpdesk
  iris_help @ ir.isas.jaxa.jp
• Frequently Asked Questions [English] [Japanese] (05/11/16)
• Observer's Mailing List(02/08/15)

ASTRO-F HomePage