Spitzer IRAC medium infrared observations taken in all four IRAC channels in both the north
and south GOODS fields. Provenance: IRAC Goods Team, IRSA data center. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
Level 1 / Basic Calibration Data (BCD) from Spitzer Space Telescope. BCDs are the individual data frames that emerge [calibrated] from the Spitzer pipeline.
Level 2 or post Basic Calibrated Data (PBCD) from Spitzer Space Telescope. This products come from combining the individual data frames or BCDs [such as mosaics of individual pointings].
LVL consists of a sample of 258 galaxies, which have been mapped with both IRAC (4 bands) and MIPS (3 bands). In addition, ancillary data products consisting of images in the narrow-band H-alpha line emission and broad-band R (from the ground) and the UV continuum (2 bands) from GALEX are also available for many of the galaxies.
Spitzer MIPS observations of the GOODS North and South fields in the
24 micron channel. Provenance: IRSA, GOODS team. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
This data set includes images of the galaxy cluster Abell 1763 at visible and infrared wavelengths: r', J, H, and Ks obtained using the Palomar 200in telescope, as well as the IRAC and MIPS images from Spitzer. The cluster is covered out to approximately 3 virial radii with deep 24 mum imaging (a 5sigma depth of 0.2 mJy). This same field of ~40' × 40' is covered in all four IRAC bands as well as the longer wavelength MIPS bands (70 and 160 mum). The r' imaging covers ~0.8 deg2 down to 25.5 mag, and overlaps with most of the MIPS field of view. The J, H, and Ks images cover the cluster core and roughly half of the filament galaxies, which extend toward the neighboring cluster, Abell 1770.
This database table contains the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) log of executed and scheduled observations, and is updated on a weekly basis. Spitzer is the fourth and final element in NASA's family of Great Observatories and represents an important scientific and technical bridge to NASA's Astronomical Search for Origins program. The SST Observatory carries an 85-cm cryogenic telescope and 3 cryogenically cooled science instruments capable of performing imaging and spectroscopy in the 3.6 to 160 micron (µm) range. Spitzer was launched on a Delta 7920H from Cape Canaveral into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit in August 2003. While the Spitzer cryogenic lifetime requirements are 2.5 years, current estimates indicate that achieving a goal of a 5-year cryogenic mission is possible. For more overview information, refer to the Spitzer Science Center (SSC) Overview at <a href="http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzermission/">http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/spitzermission/</a>. The purpose of this HEASARC table is to help users, particularly those in the high-energy astronomy community, learn about which targets Spitzer has observed or will shortly observe. This table does not at this time have links from table entries to Spitzer data products. Once a particular Spitzer dataset of interest is identified, the SSC Archives/Analysis web page at <a href="http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/archanaly/">http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/archanaly/</a> should be used to access the dataset. The information in this table has been derived from the following files obtained from the SSC website: <p> The schedule of Spitzer science observations as executed: <pre> <a href="http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/docs/files/spitzer/spitzer_obslog.txt">http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/docs/files/spitzer/spitzer_obslog.txt</a> </pre> The list of all approved Spitzer science programs: <pre> <a href="http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/docs/files/spitzer/spitzer_programs.txt">http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/docs/files/spitzer/spitzer_programs.txt</a> </pre> Notice that this table contains primarily observations (identified by their AOR key value) from the first URL above. A given observation should appear only once in this HEASARC table. The HEASARC checks these URLs for modifications periodically and updates the table whenever changes are detected. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
The Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G) is a volume-, magnitude-, and size-limited survey of over 2300 nearby galaxies at 3.6 and 4.5μm. This is an extremely deep survey reaching an unprecedented 1σ surface brightness limit of μ3.6μm(AB) = 27 mag arcsec-2. This translates to a stellar surface density of << 1 M⊙ pc-2 ! S4G can thus probe the stellar structure in galaxies in a regime where the gas dominates the stars (typical HI surface density ~ a few M⊙ pc-2).
The XMM catalogue provides an effective dataset for generating large, well-defined samples of various types of astrophysical object, notably active galaxies (AGN), clusters of galaxies, interacting compact binaries and active stellar coronae, using the power of X-ray selection. The large sky area covered by the serendipitous survey also means that XMM is a rich resource for exploring the variety of the X-ray source populations and identifying rare source types. Not all public observations are included in the catalogues. The XCATDB interface is design to process complex queries including multiple constraints on cross-correlated couterparts.