The high sensitivity and angular resolution of the 2MASS Large Galaxy Atlas (LGA) images allows closer inspection of diverse stellar populations, large-scale structures such as spirals, bulges, warps and bars, star formation regions and evolution of galaxies. This image atlas represents the first uniform, all-sky, view of galaxies as seen in the near-infrared wavelength window that is most sensitive to the dominant mass component of galaxies.
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.
Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope
Short Name:
BLAST
Date:
31 Aug 2023 01:00:00
Publisher:
NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
Description:
The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope (BLAST) is a
2-m telescope that conducted the first wide-area (> many square
degrees) sub-mm surveys at wavelengths 250--500 um. Built and flown by
an international collaboration headed by the University of
Pennsylvania (P.I. Mark Devlin), the telescope uses a prototype of the
SPIRE camera for the Herschel satellite. Despite parts of this band
being available to ground-based telescopes from high-altitude sites
such as Mauna Kea (e.g. JCMT) and Chile (e.g. future ALMA site), BLAST
surveys are currently un-matched in sensitivity and area given the
comparatively negligible atmospheric water vapour at 38 km
altitude.
SMC-Last (Program ID number 13096) built on the legacy of SAGE-SMC by adding two more epochs at 3.6 and 4.5 microns covering the entire 30 square degree footprint of the SAGE-SMC survey in late 2017 and early 2018. This program, when combined with the previous surveys, provides a minimum of four epochs at 3.6 and 4.5 microns creating a temporal baseline of over 9 yr covering the entire SMC and its surroundings. Up to nine epochs are available in the core of the SMC spanning a period of over 12 yr.
During the years 2004 to 2017, the Palomar 60 inch telescope (P60) operated as a fully robotic facility to obtain targeted optical observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows and other transient events. An automated pipeline reduced the data in real time. The raw, calibration, and pipeline-processed data are available here.
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 Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) aims to unite extremely deep observations from NASA's Great Observatories (Spitzer, Hubble and Chandra), ESA's Herschel and XMM-Newton, and the most powerful ground-based facilities. The aim is to survey the distant universe to the faintest flux limits across the broadest range of wavelengths.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will observe several Deep Drilling Fields (DDFs) to a greater depth and with a more rapid cadence than the main survey. The "DeepDrill" survey (Program ID 11086, P.I. Lacy) used the Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) to observe three of the four currently defined DDFs in two bands, centered on 3.6 um and 4.5 um. These observations expand the area which was covered by an earlier set of observations in these three fields by the Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (SERVS). The combined DeepDrill and SERVS data cover the footprints of the LSST DDFs in the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South field (ECDFS), the ELAIS-S1 field (ES1), and the XMM-Large-Scale Structure Survey field (XMM-LSS).
A deep 1.1 mm survey using Bolocam of the Lockman Hole, producing a map and galaxy candidate list. This survey encompasses 324 square arcmin to an rms noise level (filtered for point sources) of 1.4 mJy/beam. This project is described by Laurent et al., ApJ, 2005.