AKARI (ASTRO-F) Observers Page

Last Update : 09/09/22

AKARI on ADS

What's New!

AKARI Post-Helium (Phase3) Mission 2nd year: Call for Proposal

AKARI related publications

Data Archive and Data Reduction Support (MP/OT)

[Observation Log]

• Pointed observation status log (DARTS version)

[Data Archive]

• How to retrieve the data
• AKARI archive on DARTS

[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

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

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