Mopex

MOPEX (MOsaicker and Point source EXtractor) is a package for reducing and analyzing imaging data, as well as MIPS SED data. MOPEX includes the point source extraction package, APEX. MOPEX is designed to allow the user to:

perform sophisticated background matching of individual data frames
mosaic the individual frames downloaded from the Spitzer archive
perform both temporal and spatial outlier rejection during mosaicking
apply offline pointing refinement for MIPS data (refinement is already applied to IRAC data)
perform source detection on the mosaics using APEX
compute aperture photometry or PRF-fitting photometry for point sources
perform interpolation, coaddition, and spectrum extraction of MIPS SED images.

MOPEX comes in two different interfaces (GUI and command-line), both of which come packaged together. We recommend that all new users start with the GUI, which is more user-friendly than the command-line interface.

Version

On 16th July 2014 I installed version 18.5.0

Usage

To run the gui:
 /usr/local/mopex/mopex

If you get a blank gui with no menus, you may have to set the version
of java to use as follows:

setenv JAVA /usr/local/java_latest/bin/java
/usr/local/mopex/mopex

To run the command line scripts
cd /usr/local/mopex
source mopex-script-env.csh
cd bin
./mosaic.pl
(for example)

Documentation

See http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/docs/dataanalysistools/tools/mopex/mopexdocumentation/

gotchas

None at present.

Rhys Morris

Last modified: Tue Aug 19 15:29:25 GMT 2014