This survey uses the POSS1 Blue plates. Provenance: Data taken by CalTech, Compression
and distribution by Space Telescope Science Institute.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
This survey is the POSS1 Red plates from the original POSS survey.
It covers the sky north of -30 degrees declination. Provenance: Data taken by CalTech Compression
and distribution by Space Telescope Science Institute.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (FEPS) Spitzer Legacy program was designed to characterize the evolution of circumstellar gas and dust around solar-type stars between ages of 3 Myr and 3 Gyr. To achieve these goals, FEPS obtained spectrophotometric observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope for a sample of 328 stars. The observing strategy was to measure the spectral energy distribution (SED) between wavelengths of 3.6 and 70 μm with IRAC and MIPS photometry, and between 8 and 35 μm with low-resolution IRS spectra. In addition, the FEPS program obtained MIPS 160 μm photometry for 80 stars to search for colder dust, and high-resolution IRS spectra for 33 sources to probe for circumstellar gas.
The c2d Spitzer Legacy project obtained images and photometry with both IRAC and MIPS instruments for five large, nearby molecular clouds. Three of the clouds were also mapped in dust continuum emission at 1.1 mm, and optical spectroscopy has been obtained for some clouds.
The Frontier Fields is a Spitzer and HST Director's Discretionary program of six deep fields centered on strong lensing galaxy clusters in parallel with six deep "blank fields". These will be the second deepest observations of blank fields and deepest observations of clusters and their lensed galaxies ever obtained.
The first data release contains all archival data taken on these six clusters as well as data taken for the cycle-9 SURFS-UP (PID:90009) program as of April 1, 2013. Improved reductions with better artifact correction and deeper data will be released periodically over the three year period.
IRSA hosts the Spitzer portion of the Frontier Fields data set. For the HST Frontier Fields data, see MAST.
The Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) program covered the Galactic plane with the Spitzer IRAC instrument. GLIMPSEI covered 220 sq. degrees at |l|=10d-65d and b=-1d - +1d. GLIMPSEII covered the Galactic Center, l=-10d - +10d. GLIMPSE3D added vertical extensions, typically to |b|<+3d. GLIMPSE360 covered the outer Galaxy (l=65d-265d) with IRAC 3.6 micron and 4.5 micron imaging. The Vela-Carina program covered l=255d-295d.
The Galactic Plane Infrared Polarization Survey (GPIPS) covers 76 sq. deg. of the first Galactic quadrant midplane, 18<l<56 deg and -1<b<1 deg, in H-band (1.6 micron) linear polarimetry to reveal the plane-of-the-sky orientation of the magnetic field in diffuse and denser atomic and molecular clouds. The Survey consists of 3234 overlapping 10x10 arcmin fields observed using the Mimir instrument on the 1.8 m Perkins telescope.
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), a NASA Small Explorer mission, is performing the first all-sky, deep imaging and spectroscopic ultraviolet surveys in space. The prime goal of GALEX is to study star formation in galaxies and its evolution with time.
The GALEX, Galaxy Explorer, mission
was launched by a Pegasus-XL vehicle on April 28 2003 into
a 690km altitude, 29 degree inclination, circular orbit with a 98.6
minute period. The GALEX instrument allows imaging and spectroscopic
observations to be made in two ultraviolet bands,
Far UV (FUV) 1350-1780A and Near UV (NUV) 1770-2730A.
The instrument provides simultaneous co-aligned FUV and NUV
images with spatial resolution 4.3 and 5.3 arcseconds respectively.
Details of the performance of the instrument and detectors can be found in
Morrissey et al. (2007) ApJS, 173, 682.
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The <i>SkyView</i> GALEX surveys mosaic the intensity images of
All-Sky Survey images. For a given pixel only the nearest image is used.
Since a given GALEX observation is circular, this maximizes the coverage
compared with default image finding algorithms which use the distance from
edge of the image.
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As of February 10, 2011, SkyView uses the GALEX GR6 data release. Provenance: All data is downloaded from the <a href="https://galex.stsci.edu">
MAST GALEX archive</a>.. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
Galaxy Halos, Outer disks, Substructure, Thick disks and Star clusters (GHOSTS)
Short Name:
GHOSTS
Date:
22 Jul 2020 21:59:56
Publisher:
Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Description:
The GHOSTS survey is the largest study to date of the resolved stellar populations in the outskirts of disk galaxies. The sample consists of 14 disk galaxies within 17 Mpc, whose outer disks and halos are imaged with the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
