Spitzer First Look Survey
The Spitzer First Look Survey (FLS) was the
initial Director's Discretionary Time program
executed on the observatory.
The
Extragalactic First Look Survey is composed of 4 square degrees of
imaging with MIPS and IRAC centered at
J1718+5930. Spitzer and ancillary data are
available using spatial and visualization tools.
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Spitzer IRAC image mosaics, cutouts,
and catalogs are available. Documentation and reference:
Lacy et al. (2005).
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Spitzer MIPS image mosaics, cutouts,
and catalogs are available. Documentation and references:
Fadda et al. (2006) for
24 micron data, Frayer et al. (2006) for 70 and 160 micron data.
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Sloan Digital Sky Survey images, cutouts,
and catalogs are available. Documentation is available
here. Please cite Abazajian et al. (2003)
if you use these data.
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VLA B-array data at 1.4 GHz are available: image and cutouts.
Documentation and reference: Condon et al. (2003).
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The extragalactic FLS field was surveyed in the R band with the MOSAIC camera at the NOAO Kitt
Peak 4m telescope. Images, cutouts,
and catalogs are available. Documentation and reference:
Fadda et al. (2004).
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The 100m Green Bank Telescope observed the Galactic HI 21cm emission line in the FLS field. Three data
cubes are available: a RA/Dec/Velocity data cube and two
HI column density cubes (spin temperature 80 K and 10000 K, respectively). Documentation and reference:
Lockman & Condon (2005).
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The MMT/Hectospec spectroscopic survey
of 24 micron sources in the FLS includes spectra and catalogs.
Documentation and reference: Papovich et al. (2006).
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Additional spectra of 24 micron and 1.4 GHz sources were taken with the Hydra spectrograph on the WIYN telescope.
The spectra can be browsed here but due to format are not
available for spatial searches. Catalogs
are also available. Documentation and reference: Marleau et al. (2007).
The
Galactic First Look Survey spent 36 hours mapping regions of the Milky Way, with the goal of characterizing cirrus and source counts in different Galactic
environments. The data are available from the
Spitzer Heritage Archive.
The
Ecliptic First Look Survey concentrated on two 0.13 square deg fields at a solar elongation of 115 degrees and ecliptic latitudes (b) of 0 degrees and +5 degrees. The FLS-EPC explored the small asteroid counts at 8 and 24 microns, with a detection limit down to 0.08 and 0.8 mJy, respectively, and a completeness limit almost twice as deep as the 8 micron equivalent flux density of the previous deepest mid-IR survey. The FLS-EPC also provided initial characterization of the zodiacal light near the ecliptic plane. The data are available from the
Spitzer Heritage Archive.
