Description
We present Spitzer IRAC 3.6-8{mu}m and Multiband Imaging Photometer 24{mu}m point-source catalogs for M31 and 15 other mostly large, star-forming galaxies at distances ~3.5-14Mpc, including M51, M83, M101, and NGC 6946. These catalogs contain ~1 million sources including ~859000 in M31 and ~116000 in the other galaxies. They were created following the procedures described in Khan et al. (2015, J/ApJS/219/42) through a combination of point-spread function (PSF) fitting and aperture photometry. These data products constitute a resource to improve our understanding of the IR-bright (3.6-24{mu}m) point-source populations in crowded extragalactic stellar fields and to plan observations with the James Webb Space Telescope.
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