Description
We have imaged an 11.5deg^2^ region of sky toward the South Ecliptic Pole (SEP; J0443-5340) at 24 and 70um with MIPS, the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer. This region is coincident with a field mapped at longer wavelengths by AKARI and BLAST. We discuss our data reduction and source extraction procedures. The median 1{sigma} depths of the maps are 47uJy/beam at 24um and 4.3mJy/beam at 70um. At 24um, we identify 93098 point sources with signal-to-noise ratio (S/N)>=5 and an additional 63 resolved galaxies; at 70um we identify 891 point sources with S/N>=6. From simulations, we determine a false detection rate of 1.8% (1.1%) for the 24um (70um) catalog. The 24 and 70um point-source catalogs are 80% complete at 230uJy and 11mJy, respectively.
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