Far-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (FIDEL) contains sensitive and extensive far-infrared deep field observations with Spitzer to detect warm dust emission from hundreds of relatively ordinary starburst galaxies and active galactic nuclei at redshifts of 1 to 2 (7 to 10 billion years ago), and thousands more nearby. The survey also detected tens of thousands of high redshift objects at mid-infrared wavelengths. The program obtained data in three fields on the sky. The bulk of the data is in two fields, the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS) and the Extended Groth Strip (EGS). A smaller amount of additional data was obtained in the GOODS-North area.
The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems (FEPS) Spitzer Legacy program was designed to char- acterize 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 (see Meyer et al. 2006 for a description of the sample). The observing strategy was to measure the spectral energy distribution (SED) between wavelengths of 3.6 and 70 um with IRAC and MIPS photometry, and between 8 and 35 um with low-resolution IRS spectra.
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 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.
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.
