A 24 and 70 Micron Survey of the Inner Galactic Disk with MIPS
Short Name:
MIPSGAL
Date:
27 Oct 2022 19:00:00
Publisher:
NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
Description:
MIPSGAL is a survey of the inner 248 square degrees of the Galactic plane at 24 and 70 microns using the MIPS instrument aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope. The survey covers Galactic latitudes of -1° < b < +1° for Galactic longitudes of l < 62° and l > 298°. Version 3.0 of the MIPSGAL data includes mosaics only at 24um, but covering the entire survey region. |b| < 1° is covered for -68° < l < 69°, and |b| < 3° is covered for -8° < l < 9°.
The Auriga-California molecular cloud is a large region of relatively modest star formation that is part of the Gould Belt. The Herschel Space Observatory program OT1_pharvey01_3 ("The Auriga-California Molecular Cloud: A Massive Nearby Cloud With Powerful Diagnostics For Early Stages of Star Formation", PI Paul Harvey) observed a 14.5 square degree area of the cloud in five far-infrared bands.
Bisei Space Guard Center (BSGC) is an optical telescope facility in Japan, operated by JAXA. It tracks near-Earth asteroids and space debris.
DARTS provides data observed by a 25 cm telescope from 2000 to 2002 and data observed by a 1 m telescope from 2007 to 2017.
The Bochum Galactic Disk Survey is a project to monitor the stellar
content of the Galactic disk in a 6 degree wide stripe centered on the
Galactic plane. The data has been recorded from September 2010 to
September 2019 with the RoBoTT Telecsope at the
Universitaetssternwarte Bochum near Cerro Armazones in the Chilean
Atacama desert. It contains measurements of more than 2x10^7 stars.
The second and final data release contains follow-up observations from
January 2017 to September 2019 in Sloan r and i and intermittent
measurements in Johnson UVB, Sloan z and the narrowbands OIII, NB,
Halpha and SII.
A deep 1.1 mm survey using Bolocam of the Lockman Hole, producing a map and galaxy candidate list. This survey encompasses 324 square arcmin to an rms noise level (filtered for point sources) of 1.4 mJy/beam. This project is described by Laurent et al., ApJ, 2005.
Cosmic Dawn is a new infrared survey covering the three Euclid deep fields and four other Euclid calibration fields using Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC). These new observations are combined with all relevant IRAC archival data of these fields in order to produce the deepest possible mosaics of these regions. In total, these observations represent nearly 11% of the total Spitzer mission time. The resulting mosaics cover a total of approximately 71.5 deg^2 in the 3.6 and 4.5 micron bands, and approximately 21.8 deg^2 in the 5.8 and 8 micron bands. They reach at least 24 AB magnitude in the 3.6 micron band and up to ~5 mag deeper in the deepest regions. The astrometry is tied to the Gaia astrometric reference system, and the typical astrometric uncertainty for sources with 16 < [3.6] < 19 is 0.15". The photometric calibration is in excellent agreement with previous WISE measurements. Given that the Spitzer Space Telescope has now been decommissioned these mosaics are likely to be the definitive reduction of these IRAC data. This survey therefore represents an essential first step in assembling multi-wavelength data on the Euclid deep fields which are set to become some of the premier fields for extragalactic astronomy in the 2020s.
Cygnus-X: A Spitzer Legacy Survey of the Cygnus-X Complex
Short Name:
Cygnus-X
Date:
27 Oct 2022 19:00:00
Publisher:
NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
Description:
The Cygnus-X region is one of the brightest regions of the sky at all wavelengths and one of the richest known regions of star formation of the Galaxy. The goals of the Cygnus-X survey are to provide a detailed picture of the processes that govern the evolution of massive star forming complexes, to study star formation in the massive star forming complex environment, and to provide a rich sample of intermediate to high mass protostars spanning the full range of protostellar evolution. The project will also allow us to assess the role of feedback in a massive OB star/molecular cloud complex. The survey imaged a ~24 square degree region centered near 20:30:25, +40:00 (J2000). The IRAC images had a median coverage of 3x12s high dynamic range (HDR) frames, and the MIPS data were taken in fast scanning mode in the 24 and 70 μm bands.
The Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) is a ground-based imaging survey of the entire sky in several colors. The survey, performed with Palomar and UK Schmidt telescopes, produced photographic plates that were later digitized at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) to produce the Hubble Guide Stars Catalog (GSC).
Each plate produced by the Survey covers 6.5 x 6.5 degrees of the sky, and the plates have been digitized using a modified PDS microdensitometer. The digital images have a pixel size of either 25 microns (1.7 arcsec per pixel) or 15 microns (1.0 arcsec per pixel), and are 14000 x 14000 or 23040 x 23040 pixels per side. The images are stored on 12-inch optical media and are difficult to access quickly.
