... The NICMOS data reduction and calibration pipeline employs file formats and software architecture techniques that are new and different from what has been used for previous HST instruments. This paper describes the FITS file format used for NICMOS data, which includes error estimate and data quality arrays for each science image, and describes the approach used to associate multiple observations of a single target. ... This group of five data arrays is called an image set, or ``imset'' for short. ...

... The STScI NICMOS Calibration Pipeline Howard A. Bushouse Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218, Email: bushouse@stsci.edu Elizabeth Stobie University of Arizona, Steward Observatory, Tucson, AZ 85721 Abstract. ... This paper describes the FITS file format used for NICMOS data, which in­ cludes error estimate and data quality arrays for each science image, and describes the approach used to associate multiple observations of a sin­ gle target. ...

IRAF/STECF 2-D spectrum point source / background decomposition package . ... The general problem is one of spectral decomposition - of separating the spectra of the point sources from the background. ... The STECF IRAF layered package "specres" provides two tasks to extract point source spectra from 2-D images (either longslit, multislit or cross-dispersed) and decompose the full background over the image. ... A Point Source Function spectrum image is required as a 2-D spectrum. ...