A Processing Workflow for Cassini VIMS Jupiter Cubes
Asier Anguiano-Arteaga, Patrick G. J. Irwin, Santiago Pérez-Hoyos, Davide Grassi, Emiliano D'Aversa
astro-ph.EP, astro-ph.IM
Submitted: 2026-06-09
Comments: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series; 30 pages, 15 figures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We present a calibrated catalog of Cassini Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) observations of Jupiter, together with the processing workflow used to generate the final publicly
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Abstract
We present a calibrated catalog of Cassini Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) observations of Jupiter, together with the processing workflow used to generate the final publicly available products. Starting from the raw VIMS cubes, the workflow produces radiometrically consistent multi-extension FITS files and includes a revised visible-channel calibration, a revised infrared-channel calibration that resolves a subset of problematic cases not satisfactorily treated by the standard ISIS pipeline, corrections for pointing-related misalignments between spectral cubes and geometric backplanes, and customized dark signal correction strategies. The final products include calibrated spectral cubes together with geometry backplanes and wavelength information for subsequent scientific analysis. We assess the consistency of the calibrated products through internal validation tests and comparisons with independent reference spectra from the literature. The resulting products provide a uniform and validated data set of Cassini VIMS Jupiter observations for community use. The full catalog is available as a public data set at Zenodo: doi:10.5281/zenodo.19223781.
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