IRAS Point Source Catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. IPAC
  2. Published by
    NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
Abstract

This is a catalog of 245,889 well-confirmed point sources, i.e., sources with angular extents less than approximately 0.5', 0.5', 1.0', and 2.0' in the in-scan direction at 12, 25, 60, and 100 µm, respectively. Positions, flux densities, uncertainties, associations with known astronomical objects and various cautionary flags are given for each object. While two other complementary data sets - the Working Survey Database and the Point Source Reject Catalog - give information about point-like sources, the information available in the Point Source Catalog should satisfy almost all users. Away from confused regions of the sky, the survey is complete to about 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, and 1.0 Jy at 12, 25, 60, and 100 µm (cf. Faint Source Catalog). Typical position uncertainties are about 2" to 6" in-scan and about 8" to 16" cross-scan. The processing steps applied to detect and confirm point sources, and the positional and photometric error analyses are described in the Explanatory Supplement. The sources appear in order of increasing (1950.0) right ascension.

Keywords
  1. Infrared Astronomy
  2. Surveys
See also HTML
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/IRASdocs/surveys/psc.html
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://irsa.ipac/IRAS/Catalog/PSC

Access

IVOA Cone Search SCS
For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/SCS?table=iraspsc&
IVOA Table Access TAP
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/TAP
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).
Web browser access HTML
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/Gator/nph-dd?catalog=iraspsc

History

2014-04-21T22:43:00Z
Resource record created
1989-07-25
update

Contact

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IRSA Support Team
Postal Address
E-Mail
irsasupport@ipac.caltech.edu
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