H-ATLAS: PACS imaging for the Science Demonstration Phase

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2010-09-01

arxiv.org/abs/1009.0262v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

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We describe the reduction of data taken with the PACS instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory in the Science Demonstration Phase of the Herschel-ATLAS (H-ATLAS) survey, specifically data obtained for a 4x4-deg^2 region using Herschel's fast-scan (60 arcsec/s) parallel mode. We describe in detail a pipeline for data reduction using customised procedures within HIPE from data retrieval to the production of science-quality images. We found that the standard procedure for removing Cosmic-Ray glitches also removed parts of bright sources and so implemented an effective two-stage process to minimise these problems. The pronounced 1/f noise is removed from the timelines using 3.4- and 2.5-arcmin boxcar high-pass filters at 100 and 160-um. Empirical measurements of the point-spread function (PSF) are used to determine the encircled energy fraction as a function of aperture size. For the 100- and 160-um bands, the effective PSFs are ~9 and ~13 arcsec (FWHM), and the 90-per-cent encircled energy radii are 13 and 18 arcsec. Astrometric accuracy is good to ~<2 arcsec. The noise in the final maps is correlated between neighbouring pixels and rather higher than advertised prior to launch. For a pair of cross-scans, the 5-sigma point-source sensitivities are 125-165 mJy for 9-13-arcsec radius apertures at 100-um and 150-240 mJy for 13-18-arcsec radius apertures at 160-um.

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