AKARI (ASTRO-F) Observers Page

AKARI (ASTRO-F) Observers Page

Last Update : 10/01/27
AKARI on ADS

What's New!

2010/01/27: (Bug fix) IRC Imaging toolkit for Phase 3 does not work for data in 2010.
2010/01/14: [Corrected!] Sensitivity change in Phase 3.
2010/01/05: Ghosts in MIR-L data
2010/01/05: Sensitivity change in Phase 3.
2009/12/21: Notes on the AKARI Point Source Catalogues.
2009/12/03: New IRC Imaging toolkit for Phase 2 observations is released.
2009/12/03: New responsivity for the spectroscopic mode in Phase 3 is available.
2009/12/03: Summary of the Phase 3 workshop on November 13th, 2009 is now available.

2008/09/08: AKARI Post-Helium (Phase3) Mission 2nd year: Open Time approved programmes.
2009/08/26: IRC Data Users Manual (IDUM) for Phase 3 version 1.1 released.
2009/08/24: Photometric conversion factors for Phase 3 observations.
2009/06/18: AKARI Post-Helium (Phase3) Mission 2nd year: Duplication check tool/Visbility tool available. Proposal submission form open.
2009/06/15: AKARI Post-Helium (Phase3) Mission 2nd year: Blocked target becomes available to the OT users.
2009/05/27: AKARI Post-Helium (Phase3) Mission 2nd year: Call for Proposal
2009/04/24: On the systematic error of the IRC/NIR photometry.[Important!]
2009/04/07: Imaging/Spectroscopy Toolkit for Phase 3 data are now available.
2009/04/07: IRC Data Users Manual (IDUM) for Phase 3 version 1.0 released.
2009/04/07: Phase 3 data now available on DARTS for the observers.

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)

Notes on the AKARI Point Source Catalogues

The point source catalogues based on the AKARI All-Sky Survey have been constructed. We apologize for the delay of the public release of the (FIS) catalogues that is supposed to be available in Nov. 2009. Because of some technical reason the production / release of the catalogue has been slipped by several months. We plan to release the IRC Point Source Catalogue at the same time. The target date of the release will be announced here when it is confirmed by the project.

The followings are the release notes of the β version catalogues, which are being evaluated by the team members. Minor updates will be made to the public version.

Release Note of the FIS Bright Source Catalogue version β-2 [FISBSCb2_RN.pdf; 10.9MB; 2009/11/27]
Release Note of the FIS Bright Source Catalogue version β-1 [IRCPSCb1_RN.pdf; 1.3MB; 2009/11/18]

AKARI related publications

AKARI publication list
AKARI on ADS
Guidelines for publication related to AKARI
When publishing AKARI data in a journal or proceedings, you are requested to follow this guideline.

Data Archive and Data Reduction Support (MP/OT)

Phase 3 data are available on DARTS [2009/04/07]

[Observation Log]

Check the status of your observation and data package!

Pointed observation status log (DARTS version)

[Data Archive]

Observation data of LS/MP/OT programmes are now available to the proposers. The data are maintained in DARTS . Please follow the instruction below for donwloading and decrypting the data.

[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]

[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/Spectroscopy Toolkit Version 20090211 released 2009/04/07]

General Information for AKARI Observers (MP/OT)

[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)

[Helpdesk]

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)

[Newsletter]

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

[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) [New]

[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.

[Useful information]

IRC Relative Spectral Response Functions (RSRFs) (07/01/15)

(pre-launch version)

(05/05/29)

FIS Relative Spectral Response Functions (RSRFs) (07/02/23)

Previous Open-Time Observations

Some Old Stuff

Introduction
- [Japanese text version only] Slides at the Special Session of "ASTRO-F Introduction" at the Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Japan [PDF; 3.9MB] (05/04/03)
Other information

Estimate of sky confusion (Hirao, 01/10/19) [Japanese]

For Mission Program Users

Mission Programme Page (access restricted)

ASTRO-F HomePage

iris_help @ ir.isas.jaxa.jp