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GLIMPSE360 Source Lists Data Release for the l=64.5 to 102.4 and 229.0 to ~265.7 deg area
 May 2013
 23,575,139 Catalog sources and 28,227,478 Archive sources
 Single frame photometry; Highly Reliable Catalog, More Complete Archive 
 IRAC bands 1 (3.6 um) and 2 (4.5 um)  bandmerged with 2MASS J, H, Ks
 This data delivery completes the GLIMPSE360 source list data deliveries.
 A total of 42,602,112 Catalog sources and 49,378,042 Archive sources
 were delivered for the GLIMPSE360 project.

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1. Overview
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This GLIMPSE360 source list data release is comprised of IPAC Tables of the
GLIMPSE360 Catalogs and Archives for l=~64.5 to ~102.4 and 229.0 to ~265.7 deg.
The data were taken in HDR mode: 12 sec and 0.6 sec FT and there are nominally
3 visits on the sky. Data processed by SSC pipeline processing version S18.18 
and later were used to make the source lists.
The format for the GLIMPSE360 source lists is the same as the
previous GLIMPSE (GLIMPSEI, GLIMPSEII, GLIMPSE3D) source lists.
Even though bands 3 (5.8 um) &amp; 4 (8 um) are not used in the Spitzer Warm 
Mission, we have fields for them in our source lists, filled in by null values.
These source lists are a result of doing photometry on each IRAC frame, averaging
all detections of a single band (in-band merge), then doing
the merging of all wavelengths, including 2MASS J, H, and Ks, at a given
position on the sky (cross-band merge).

The GLIMPSE360 Catalog is a more reliable source list, and the
Archive is a more complete list both in number of sources  and flux
measurements at each wavelength (less nulling of fluxes).  The main
differences between the Catalog and Archive are 1) fluxes brighter
than a threshold that marks a nonlinear regime are nulled (removed) in
the Catalog; 2) sources within 2" of another are culled
(removed) from the Catalog, whereas the Archive allows sources as
close as 0.5" from another; 3) sources within the PSF
profile of a saturated source are culled from the Catalog but not the
Archive; and 4) the Catalog has higher signal-to-noise thresholds and
slightly more stringent acceptance criteria.

The single frame photometry source list fluxes were extracted from the IRAC
frames using a modified version of DAOPHOT (Stetson 1987) to perform the
PSF fitting. See http://www.astro.wisc.edu/glimpse/glimpse_photometry_v1.0.pdf 
for more details about the point source extraction.
The Warm Mission array-location-dependent photometric corrections
(section 3.5 in http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/docs/irac/warmfeatures/)
were applied to the source lists.

When making the source lists, the area has been split into sub-areas that are
4 degrees wide in longitude, all latitudes in this longitude range. 
There is a Catalog and an Archive for each sub-area.  For the l=64.5 to 102.4 deg
and l=229.0 to 265.7 deg areas, we have 23,575,139 Catalog sources and
28,227,478 Archive sources.

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2. Files in the GLIMPSE360 May 2013 Source Lists Release.
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A. GLIMPSE360_source_lists_may2013.README - This file. 

B. Catalog &amp; Archive Files in IPAC Table Formats

  nominal       approx
 longitude     latitude         Catalog          No. of       Archive          No. of
 area covered area covered      Filename         Catalog      Filename         Archive
 (degrees)    (degrees)                          Sources                       Sources
 ----------  ------------  -------------------- -------- -------------------- --------
 *065-069  -1.10 to +3.10  GLM360C_l064-069.tbl  3209817 GLM360A_l064-069.tbl  4100273
  069-073  -1.10 to +3.10  GLM360C_l069-073.tbl  2762529 GLM360A_l069-073.tbl  3457122
 $073-077  -1.10 to +3.10  GLM360C_l073-077.tbl  2311627 GLM360A_l073-077.tbl  2864564
 $077-081  +0.70 to +3.10  GLM360C_l077-081.tbl   247339 GLM360A_l077-081.tbl   348860
 $081-085  +0.30 to +3.10  GLM360C_l081-085.tbl  1245213 GLM360A_l081-085.tbl  1501389
  085-089  +0.30 to +3.10  GLM360C_l085-089.tbl  1515931 GLM360A_l085-089.tbl  1813631
 #089-093  -0.10 to +3.50  GLM360C_l089-093.tbl  1570793 GLM360A_l089-093.tbl  1859876 
 #093-097  -0.10 to +3.50  GLM360C_l093-097.tbl  1542429 GLM360A_l093-097.tbl  1812599
 #097-101  -0.10 to +3.50  GLM360C_l097-101.tbl  1443103 GLM360A_l097-101.tbl  1684606
#*101-104  -0.10 to +3.50  GLM360C_l101-104.tbl   374997 GLM360A_l101-104.tbl   459191

  229-233  -2.40 to +0.40  GLM360C_l229-233.tbl   628289 GLM360A_l229-233.tbl   700886
  233-237  -2.40 to +0.40  GLM360C_l233-237.tbl   676414 GLM360A_l233-237.tbl   762281
  237-241  -2.60 to +0.40  GLM360C_l237-241.tbl   705521 GLM360A_l237-241.tbl   794148
  241-245  -2.60 to +0.20  GLM360C_l241-245.tbl   761827 GLM360A_l241-245.tbl   844632
  245-249  -2.60 to +0.20  GLM360C_l245-249.tbl   779356 GLM360A_l245-249.tbl   873215
  249-253  -2.70 to +0.10  GLM360C_l249-253.tbl   843627 GLM360A_l249-253.tbl   948861
  253-257  -3.20 to +0.10  GLM360C_l253-257.tbl   883159 GLM360A_l253-257.tbl  1005909
  257-261  -3.20 to -0.30  GLM360C_l257-261.tbl   932371 GLM360A_l257-261.tbl  1067814
 *261-266  -3.20 to -0.30  GLM360C_l261-266.tbl  1140797 GLM360A_l261-266.tbl  1327621
                                                --------                      --------
                                                23575139                      28227478 

*  There are sources down to ~64.5 deg, up to ~102.4 deg, and up to ~265.7 deg.
$  The Cold mission CYG-X survey observed longitudes l=~76 to ~82 degs and the Cold
   mission SMOG project observed l=102 to 109 deg. These data were NOT
   combined with the GLIMPSE360 data. 
#  Most of the data taken of l=~89.7 to ~102.4 deg were observed during the transition 
   period from Cold to Warm Mission operations.  Temperatures were not stable during 
   this time. Source fluxes taken during this time are fainter than the same sources
   observed at a different time. The [3.6] fluxes from data taken during the transition 
   time (May 15-September 18, 2009) are about 0.07 magnitudes fainter and the 
   [4.5] fluxes about 0.03 magnitudes fainter. See Appendix A in the v1.2 
   GLIMPSE360 data document for more details.

C. Documentation 

   The GLIMPSE360 data document 
   (http://www.astro.wisc.edu/sirtf/glimpse360_dataprod_v1.2.pdf) describes the GLIMPSE
   processing, products and formats.  This replaces the v1.1 version.

   Other existing documentation includes the GLIMPSE360.notes mentioned above, GLIMPSE 
   Data Products and Quality Assurance Documents and a document 
   describing in detail our point source photometry steps. See
     http://www.astro.wisc.edu/glimpse/docs.html
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