Description
The Spitzer Survey for Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) and its more recently approved extension will lead to a set of 3.6 and 4.5um images for 2829 galaxies, which can be used to study many different aspects of the structure and evolution of local galaxies. We have collected and re-reduced optical images of 1768 of the survey galaxies, aiming to make these available to the community as ready-to-use FITS files to be used in conjunction with the mid-IR images. Our sky-subtraction and mosaicking procedures were optimised for imaging large galaxies. We also produce false-colour images of some of these galaxies to be used for illustrative and public outreach purposes. We collected and re-processed images in five bands from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for 1657 galaxies.
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