This page contains links to a variety of tools useful for the analysis of FUSE data, including information on instrumental effects, airglow, and the interstellar medium.

For information about CalFUSE, the FUSE calibration pipeline software package, see the CalFUSE homepage.

Software

A variety of IDL routines to display and manipulate FUSE data are available from the FUSE IDL Tools Reference Page.

Steve McCandliss's H2ools page provides all sorts of tools and support materials for modeling molecular hydrogen.

The spectral manipulation tool XIPLOT, an IDL-based program, is available at the French FUSE site.

For IRAF users, Jerry Kriss has provided a set of IRAF scripts and instructions for using them.

Documentation

The FUSE Instrument and Data Handbook describes the FUSE instrument and the science data produced by the FUSE Science Data Processing Pipeline System. It includes descriptions of the data acquisition, data processing, file-naming conventions, and data formats. Methods and suggestions for displaying and interpreting the data products are also given. Finally, known instrumental artifacts and their effects on the data are described (12/31/2002).

The FUSE Data Analysis Cookbook is a tutorial for astronomers new to the analysis of FUSE data. It has been updated for CalFUSE v3.

Data-analysis tools distributed with the CalFUSE pipeline are reviewed in the document FUSE Tools in C. A subset of these programs, designed specifically for the manipulation of IDF files, is described in the IDF Cookbook, available in both PDF and HTML versions.

Mission Planning Schedule Timeline Plots: Use these plots to see when each of your exposures were taken (in orbital day/night, SAA, limb angle, etc.)

References: The FUSE Instrument

For a complete description of FUSE, its mission, and its in-flight performance, see Moos et al. (2000) and Sahnow et al. (2000).

References: Atomic Data

Don Morton has recently updated his compilation of atomic data.

References: Airglow

High Resolution FUV Spectroscopy of Terrestrial Day Airglow with FUSE (Feldman et al. 2001, JGR, 106, 8119) presents an extensive set of airglow spectra observed with FUSE.

Here are two additional plots (Figure 1 and Figure 2) of orbital daytime airglow spectra which are extensions of Figure 7 in the Feldman et al. paper. In these plots, the top panel (a) presents a spectrum of the earth limb, the middle panel (b) a "downward looking" spectrum, and the bottom panel (c) a "sideways or upward looking" spectrum.

Sample FUSE data sets containing airglow spectra are available from our anonymous FTP site. See FUSE Airglow Spectra for details.

References: Interstellar Medium

The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer: Mission Overview and Prospects for Studies of the Interstellar Medium and High Velocity Clouds (Sembach 1999).

This paper provides lists of important interstellar features and detailed plots of synthetic interstellar spectra. The latter are useful for line identification.

The complete reference is Sembach, K. R. 1999, in The Stromlo Workshop on High Velocity Clouds, ASP Conference Series 166, eds. B.K. Gibson & M.E. Putman (San Francisco: ASP), 243

References: Stars

Ne V and Ne VI Lines in the Ultraviolet Spectrum of the Symbiotic Star RR Telescopii (Espey et al. 1996, ApJ, 465, 965)

Identification of Fe II Emission Lines in FUSE Stellar Spectra (Harper et al. 2001, ApJ, 551, 486)

Cool Star Line List and Spectrum - A list of emission lines in cool stars, derived from observations of Capella, courtesy of the FUSE Cool Star team and Tom Ake.

FUV Linelists and Atlases for Hot Stars - Line lists for and spectral atlases of hot stars in the FUV, courtesy of the FUSE Hot Star team and Alex Fullerton.

We particularly wish to draw your attention to the Atlas of Galactic OB Spectra Observed with FUSE (Pellerin et al. 2002, ApJS, 143, 159) and the FUSE Atlas of OB Stars in the Magellanic Clouds (Walborn et al. 2002, ApJS, 141, 443). The fully-reduced spectra from these atlases are available from MAST.

Note also that the FUSE data of star-forming galaxies used by Anne Pellerin in her thesis are now available as High Level Science Products from MAST.

The FUSE Spectral Atlas of Wolf-Rayet Stars, recently published by Willis et al. (2004, ApJS, 154, 651), is also available from MAST.

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