The SMART Data Analysis Package for the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope

By S. Higdon, D. Devost, J. Higdon, B. Brandl, J. Houck, P. Hall, D. Barry, Vassilis Charmandaris, John-David T. Smith, G. Sloan and 1 more. 2004

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SMART is a software package written in IDL to reduce and analyze Spitzer data from all four modules of the Infrared Spectrograph, including the peak‐up arrays. The software is designed to make full use of the ancillary files generated in the Spitzer Science Center pipeline so that it can either remove or flag artifacts and corrupted data and maximize the signal‐to‐noise ratio in the extraction routines. It can be run in both interactive and batch modes. The software and users guide will be available for public release in 2004 December. We briefly describe some of the main features of SMART, including visualization tools for assessing data quality, basic arithmetic operations for either two‐dimensional images or one‐dimensional spectra, extraction of both point and extended sources, and a suite of spectral analysis tools.

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Mid-Infrared Spectral Diagnosis of Submillimeter Galaxies (2007, background): “MID-IR SPECTRA OF SUBMILLIMETER GALAXIES 1175No. 2, 2008 package (Higdon et al. 2004).”
The SAGE-Spec Spitzer Legacy Program: The Life Cycle of Dust and Gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud (2010, methodology): “This recovers sources that are slightly extended in the IRAC bands (but are point sources at 24 µm) that were missed by the SAGE PSCs. 1 http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/Gator/nph-dd?catalog=ssid2 2 Available in both the SMART (Spectroscopy Modeling Analysis and Reduction Tool; Higdon et al. 200”
The Mid-Infrared Properties of Starburst Galaxies from Spitzer-IRS Spectroscopy (2006, methodology): “We used the SpectralModeling, Analysis, and Reduction Tool (SMART), version 5.5.1., developed by the IRS team (Higdon et al. 2004) to reduce and extract the spectra.”
Towards a complete census of AGN in nearby Galaxies: a large population of optically unidentified AGN (2009, methodology): “6 SMART was developed by the IRS Team at Cornell University and is available through the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech. emission; when comparing to D09 we scaled our emissionline fluxes by the difference in aperture size between D09 and our study.”
A Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Spectral Sequence of M, L, and T Dwarfs (2004, methodology): “′′0 in the LL module) and wavelength calibrated using the technique employed by the IRS data reduction package, the Spectroscopic Modeling Analysis and Reduction Tool (SMART; Higdon et al. 2004).”
Spitzer Observations of 3C Quasars and Radio Galaxies: Mid-Infrared Properties of Powerful Radio Sources (2006, methodology): “The IRS spectra were extracted from the basic calibrated data (BCD) images provided by the Spitzer Science Center, using the Spectroscopy Modeling and Analysis Tool (SMART; Higdon et al. 2004).”
Hot graphite dust and the infrared spectral energy distribution of active galactic nuclei (2011, methodology): “The SMART tool (Higdon et al. 2004) is used for extraction of the final spectra.”
Observations of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies with the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope. II. The IRAS Bright Galaxy Sample (2006, methodology): “One-dimensional spectra were extracted from the IRS data products using the SMART data reduction package (Higdon et al. 2004).”
Spitzer Quasar and ULIRG Evolution Study (QUEST). I. The Origin of the Far-Infrared Continuum of QSOs (2006, methodology): “We used our own IDL-based tools for removing outlying values for individual pixels and for sky subtraction, and SMART (Higdon et al. 2004) for extraction of the final spectra.”
CASSIS: THE CORNELL ATLAS OF SPITZER/INFRARED SPECTROGRAPH SOURCES (2011, methodology): “While existing data reduction and analysis software such as SMART (Spectroscopic Modeling Analysis and Reduction Tool; Higdon et al. 2004) and SPICE (Spitzer IRS Custom Extraction5) already provide several extraction algorithms, the AdOpt algorithm, which we developed within SMART, significantly imp”
Mid-Infrared Properties of Low-Metallicity Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies from the Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph (2005, methodology): “5.5.1; Higdon et al. 2004) using a variable width aperture, which scales the extraction aperture with wavelength to recover the same fraction of the diffraction-limited instrumental point-spread function (PSF).”
A Survey and Analysis of Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Spectra of T Tauri Stars in Taurus (2006, methodology): “We then extracted and calibrated our spectra using the SMART software tool (Higdon et al. 2004).”
Spitzer IRS Spectroscopy of IRAS-discovered Debris Disks (2006, methodology): “We carried out the bulk of the reduction and analysis of our spectra with the IRS team’s SMART program (Higdon et al. 2004).”
THE 0.8–14.5 μm SPECTRA OF MID-L TO MID-T DWARFS: DIAGNOSTICS OF EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE, GRAIN SEDIMENTATION, GAS TRANSPORT, AND SURFACE GRAVITY (2009, methodology): “After a visual inspection, the images were loaded into the Spectroscopic Modeling Analysis and Reduction Tool (SMART; Higdon et al. 2004) for spectrum extraction.”
High-Resolution Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (2007, methodology): “The individual frames were then combined into a single image, and spectra were extracted from each nod using the SMART software package (Higdon et al. 2004), using full-slit extraction.”
Detection of the Buried Active Galactic Nucleus in NGC 6240 with the Infrared Spectrograph on the Spitzer Space Telescope (2005, methodology): “One-dimensional spectra were extracted from the twodimensional spectra using the SMART data reduction package (Higdon et al. 2004).”
Stellar Evolutionary Effects on the Abundances of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Supernova-Condensed Dust in Galaxies (2007, neutral): “5.5.6; Higdon et al. 2004).”