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September 30, 2009 News and Updates
A 50 sq. degree map of star forming regions towards the
constellation Vela obtained by the BLAST telescope. In
this three color composite, blue is 250 microns, green is
350 microns, and red is 500 microns.
Credit: BLAST Collaboration (PI Mark Devlin)
IRSA and the SSC announce that IRSA is now serving the first data
release from the Spitzer Deep Wide-Field Survey.
In addition, we announce the release of the
Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope data.
The SDWFS is
a four-epoch infrared
survey of 10 square degrees in the Boötes field of the NOAO Deep
Wide-Field Survey using IRAC. The first data release consists of
mosaics and catalogs of each epoch in each IRAC band, as well as
combined mosaics and catalogs for the sum of all IRAC integrations
of this field.
BLAST is a 2-m balloon-borne submillimeter
telescope that conducted the first wide-area submillimeter surveys
at wavelengths 250-500 microns on two long-duration flights in
2005 and 2006. 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.
September 16, 2009Previous News
IRSA and the SSC announce the release of a new
Spitzer legacy survey:
Spitzer Atlas of Stellar Spectra (SASS).
SASS consists of Spitzer IRS
low-resolution spectra for a sample of 144 stars spanning the
full range of spectral types.
October 7, 2009 Featured Image
The Keyhole Nebula in Carina, as seen by 2MASS. Eta Carinae, in the lower left portion of the nebula, is one of the most massive stars known in the Milky Way at around 100 Solar masses. Image credit: 2MASS/G. Kopan (IPAC).
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