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IRAS Serendipitous Survey Catalog
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The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) Serendipitous Survey Catalog (SSC) is a catalog of 12, 25, 60 and 100 micron photometric observations of 43,866 point-like sources detected fortuitiously in the IRAS Pointed Observation program.
Description
The main objective was to take advantage of the longer-than-nominal integration time per source to extend the detection threshold relative to that of the IRAS Point Source Catalog (PSC); about three-fourths of the SSC sources do not appear in the PSC.
From 1813 Pointed Observation fields, the effective sky coverage is 1108 square degrees. Relative to the PSC, the SSC is characterized by: enhanced sensitivity (by a factor of about 4) in all four wavelength bands; excellent reliability in uncrowded fields; uneven sky coverage and completeness; reduced positional accuracy; improved photometric accuracy; much greater depth in crowded fields at the expense of reliability and accuracy.
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More information about the SSC data processing, the catalog format, and an analysis are given in the Explanatory Supplement to the IRAS Serendipitous Survey Catalog. This Browse table was created by the HEASARC in December 2006 based on CDS table II/126, the file sources.dat. More information, e.g., on counterparts in other catalogs to the SSC sources, is available in other files in the directory <a href="cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/II/126/">https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/II/126/</a> This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Links
Get the data
- Resource heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/irasssc.html ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- Resource heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets=&table=irasssc ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/iras-serendipitous-survey-catalog ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=923ef7bb-e3f7-400f-8dab-d526fa8ed… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
- Inferred from text
- Tabular 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Data Portal | 923ef7bb-e3f7-400f-8dab-d526fa8edfaa | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[modality].local:modality:tabular | enrichment · data nasa gov | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| created_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /notes |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 |