- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/irasfsc
- Title:
- IRAS Faint Source Catalog, Version 2.0
- Short Name:
- IRASFSC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Faint Source Survey (FSS) is the definitive Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) data set for faint point sources. The FSS was produced by point-source filtering the individual detector data streams and then coadding those data streams using a trimmed-average algorithm. The resulting images, or plates, give the best estimate from the IRAS survey data of the point source flux density at every surveyed point of the sky. The Faint Source Catalog (FSC) is a compilation of the sources extracted from the FSS plates that have met reasonable reliability requirements. Averaged over the whole catalog, the FSC is at least 98.5% reliable at 12 and 25 microns, and ~94% at 60 microns. For comparison, the IRAS Point Source Catalog (PSC) is >99.997% reliable, but the sensitivity of the FSC exceeds that of the PSC by about a factor of 2.5. This increase in sensitivity results from the co-adding of the three separate hours-confirming (HCON) passes over the sky which were used for confirmation and not added together for the Point Source Catalog. The FSC also contains 99,973 infrared sources which are not in the PSC. The FSC contains data for 173,044 point sources in unconfused regions with flux densities typically above 0.2 Jy at 12, 25, and 60 microns, and above 1.0 Jy at 100 microns. The FSS plates are somewhat more sensitive but less reliable than the FSC; typically, only sources with SNR > 5 - 6 in the plates are contained in the FSC. The data products, the processing methods used to produce them, results of an analysis of these products, and cautionary notes are given in the Explanatory Supplement to the IRAS Faint Source Survey. This database table contains the IRAS Faint Source Catalog (FSC) (Version 2.0, released in September 1990) non-associations data. The associations data for the IRAS FSC is contained in the file <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/II/156A/assoc.dat.gz">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/II/156A/assoc.dat.gz</a> The FSC is limited in galactic latitude to the unconfused regions of sky in which the absolute value of BII is greater than or equal to 10 degrees at 12 and 25 microns and greater than or equal to 20 degrees at 60 microns. Because of the presence of the infrared "cirrus" at 100 microns, the FSC does not contain sources detected ONLY at 100 microns. Sources with a 100 micron detection were included in the catalog if they were bandmerged with high reliability detections at other spectral bands. For the faintest sources, the reliability exceeds 90% at 12 and 25 microns, and 80% at 60 microns. The HEASARC recreated this database table in August 2005, based on the CDS table, in an effort to modernize its parameter names and documentation, as well as to add Galactic coordinates. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/iraspscz
- Title:
- IRAS Point Source Catalog Redshift (PSCz) Catalog
- Short Name:
- IRASPSCZ
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The IRAS Point Source Catalog Redshift (PSCz) Survey consists of redshifts, infrared and optical photometry, and assorted other information for 18351 IRAS sources, mostly selected from the Point Source Catalog. The survey was designed to select almost all galaxies with flux brighter than 0.595 Jy at 60 microns (µm), over the 84% of the sky with extinction small enough that reliable and complete optical identification and spectroscopy was possible. Some of the sources are not galaxies and some are multiple entries for the same galaxy as described in the reference paper. There are in total 15,411 galaxies or possible galaxies, for which redshifts are available for 14,677. The galaxies without redshift are mostly distant or at low latitude, as described in the paper. Many of these galaxies have now been observed as part of the BTP project (Saunders et al 1999, astro-ph/9909174 "The Behind the Plane Survey"), and their redshifts were to be included in future revisions of this catalog. The full catalog for the PSCz Catalog contains more than 120 parameters and is available at the CDS in the directory <a href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/VII/221/">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/ftp/cats/VII/221/</a> as the files pscz.dat (18,351 sources in the main catalog) and psczcg.dat (60 additional sources close to the coverage gap). There is also a 'short' version of the catalog, psczvs.dat and psczcgvs.dat, containing 19 parameters, sufficient information for most studies. They correspond to the version 2.2. Many fields are taken directly from the IRAS Point Source Catalogue (CDS Cat. II/125). See the IRAS Explanatory Supplement (Beichman et al., 1988, NASAR, 1190, 1) for more information. If there are problems that cannot be resolved by careful reading of these notes or the accompanying paper, please contact Will Saunders <will@roe.ac.uk> or Will Sutherland <W.Sutherland1@physics.ox.ac.uk>. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2014 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VII/221">CDS Catalog VII/221</a> files psczvs.dat (the 'Main' sample) and psczcgvs.dat (the 'Near-gap' sample), comprising the 'Short' version of the PSCz Catalog. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/iraspsc
- Title:
- IRAS Point Source Catalog, Version 2.0
- Short Name:
- IRASPSC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The IRAS Point Source Catalog, Version 2.0, is a catalog of some 250,000 well-confirmed infrared point sources observed by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), i.e., sources with angular extents less than approximately 0.5, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.0 arcminutes in the in-scan direction at 12, 25, 60, and 100 microns (µm), respectively. Positions, flux densities, uncertainties, associations with known astronomical objects and various cautionary flags are given for each objectin the catalog. Away from confused regions of the sky, the survey is complete to about 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, and 1.0 Janskies (Jy) at 12, 25, 60, and 100 microns, respectively. Typical position uncertainties are about 2 to 6 arcseconds in the in-scan direction and about 8 to 16 arcseconds in the cross-scan direction. This online version of the IRASPSC was created by the HEASARC in April 2002 based on ADC/<a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/II/125">CDS Catalog II/125</a> (the main file). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
- ID:
- ivo://nasa.heasarc/irasssc
- Title:
- IRAS Serendipitous Survey Catalog
- Short Name:
- IRASSSC
- Date:
- 07 Mar 2025
- Publisher:
- NASA/GSFC HEASARC
- Description:
- The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) Serendipitous Survey Catalog (SSC) is a catalog of 12, 25, 60 and 100 micron photometric observations of 43,866 point-like sources detected fortuitiously in the IRAS Pointed Observation program. The main objective was to take advantage of the longer-than-nominal integration time per source to extend the detection threshold relative to that of the IRAS Point Source Catalog (PSC); about three-fourths of the SSC sources do not appear in the PSC. From 1813 Pointed Observation fields, the effective sky coverage is 1108 square degrees. Relative to the PSC, the SSC is characterized by: enhanced sensitivity (by a factor of about 4) in all four wavelength bands; excellent reliability in uncrowded fields; uneven sky coverage and completeness; reduced positional accuracy; improved photometric accuracy; much greater depth in crowded fields at the expense of reliability and accuracy. More information about the SSC data processing, the catalog format, and an analysis are given in the Explanatory Supplement to the IRAS Serendipitous Survey Catalog. This Browse table was created by the HEASARC in December 2006 based on CDS table II/126, the file sources.dat. More information, e.g., on counterparts in other catalogs to the SSC sources, is available in other files in the directory <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/II/126/">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/II/126/</a> This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
