Description
The AKARI, a Japanese infrared space mission, has performed an All-Sky Survey in six infrared-bands from 9 to 180um with higher spatial resolutions and better sensitivities than the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS). We investigate the mid-infrared (9 and 18um) point source catalog (PSC) obtained with the Infrared Camera (IRC) onboard AKARI, in order to understand the infrared nature of the known objects and to identify previously unknown objects. Color-color diagrams and a color-magnitude diagram were plotted with the AKARI-IRC PSC and other available all-sky survey catalogs. We combined the Hipparcos astrometric catalog and the 2MASS all-sky survey catalog with the AKARI-IRC PSC. We furthermore searched literature and SIMBAD astronomical database for object types, spectral types, and luminosity classes. We identified the locations of representative stars and objects on the color-magnitude and color-color diagram schemes. The properties of unclassified sources can be inferred from their locations on these diagrams.
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