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Catalog Service:
The SWIRE Data Service

Short name: SWIRE
IVOA Identifier: ivo://jvo/swirePublisher: JVO
More Info: http://swire.ipac.caltech.edu/swire/swire.html
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Status: active
Registered: 2008 Apr 10 00:00:00Z
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Description


The Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic survey is one of six very large programs undertaken as Legacy surveys during the first year of the Spitzer Space Observatory. SWIRE has imaged nearly 50 square degrees (equal to the area of 250 full moons) divided among 6 different directions on the sky, detecting over 2 million galaxies by their heat radiation, some of them over 11 billion light years away.

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About the Resource Providers

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Publisher: JVO

STScI Archivearchive@stsci.edu

Contact Information:
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Email: help_desk at jvo.nao.ac.jp

Status of This Resource

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Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.
  • This service apparently provides only public data

This resource was registered on: 2008 Apr 10 00:00:00Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2019 Oct 05 08:47:54Z

What This Resource is About

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Resource Class: CatalogService
This resource is a service that provides access to catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.
Resource type keywords:
  • Catalog
Subject keywords:
  • survey
Intended audience or use:
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: http://swire.ipac.caltech.edu/swire/swire.html

Data Coverage Information

This section describes the data's coverage over the sky, frequency, and time.

Wavebands covered:

  • Infrared



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