URAT is a follow-up project to the successful UCAC project using the same astrograph but with a much larger focal plane array and a bandpass shifted further to the red. Longer integration times and more sensitive, backside CCDs allowed for a substantial increase in limiting magnitude, resulting in about 4-fold increase in the average number of stars per square degree as compared to UCAC. Additional observations with an objective grating largely extend the dynamic range to include observations of stars as bright as about 3rd magnitude. Multiple sky overlaps per year result in a significant improvement in positional precision as compared to UCAC.
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 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.
Gaia is a mission designed to chart a three dimensional map of the Milky Way. Gaia will provide unprecedented positional measurements for about one billion stars in our Galaxy, together with radial velocity measurements for the brightest 150 million objects.
This table has an entry for all sources in the auxiliary QSO solution matched to the ICRF2 sources and passing all quality filters discussed in the corresponding documentation.
The Gaia DR2 Source Catalogue contains positions and brightnesses for 1.693 billion stars, including distances and proper motions for more than 1.3 billion stars. For more details, see the Gaia documentation, particularly the Source Catalogue columns description.
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.
Herschel data from the 'Galactic Observations of Terahertz C' (GOT Cplus) Open Time Key Program (KPOT_wlanger_1) are available here using spatial and visualization tools. GOT Cplus surveyed the Galactic Plane in the 158 micron (1.9 THz) fine structure transition of [CII] using Herschel's HIFI instrument. GOT Cplus is a sparse survey containing 454 lines of sight throughout the Galactic Disk, plus two position-velocity maps across the Galactic center.
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.
COSMOS is an astronomical survey designed to probe the formation and evolution of galaxies as a function of cosmic time (redshift) and large scale structural environment. The survey covers a 2 square degree equatorial field with imaging by most of the major space-based telescopes (Hubble, Spitzer, GALEX, XMM, Chandra) and a number of large ground based telescopes (Subaru, VLA, ESO-VLT, UKIRT, NOAO, CFHT, and others). Over 2 million galaxies are detected, spanning 75% of the age of the universe.
This catalog was created using u*-band priors and the EM-algorithm. Appropriate references for a description of the method are: Guillaume, M. et al. 2006, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6064, pp. 332-341. This is the current reference, and contains all the basics of the method and algorithm. A more specific reference for this catalog is Zamojski et al. (2008).
The algorithm was run on the four NUV and the four FUV GALEX images covering the COSMOS field. It was run on the "-int" images (intensity maps) obtained as a product of the GALEX pipeline processing, version 1.61. The u*-band mosaic image and SExtractor catalog used as priors in this run were generously provided by Henry McCracken (IAP) and are based on CFHT-u* observations of the COSMOS field.
