SOFIA/FORCAST Galactic Center Source Catalog

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad55f2

SOFIA/FORCAST Galactic Center Source Catalog

2024-09-25

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Elisabeth A. C. Mills

DOI：10.3847/1538-4357/ad55f2

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The central regions of the Milky Way constitute a unique laboratory for a wide swath of astrophysical studies; consequently, the inner similar to 400 pc have been the target of numerous large surveys at all accessible wavelengths. In this paper, we present a catalog of sources at 25 and 37 mu m located within all of the regions observed with the SOFIA/FORCAST instrument in the inner similar to 200 pc of the Galaxy. The majority of the observations were obtained as part of the SOFIA Cycle 7 Galactic Center Legacy program survey, which was designed to complement the Spitzer/MIPS 24 mu m catalog in regions saturated in the MIPS observations. Due to the wide variety of source types captured by our observations at 25 and 37 mu m, we do not limit the FORCAST source catalog to unresolved point sources, or treat all sources as if they are pointlike sources. The catalog includes all detectable sources in the regions, resulting in a catalog of 950 sources, including point sources, compact sources, and extended sources. We also provide the user with metrics to discriminate between the source types.

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STAR-FORMATION

INFRARED QUINTUPLET

DATA REDUCTION

EARLY SCIENCE

MILKY-WAY

DUST

ASTROPY

EMISSION

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SOFIA/FORCAST Galactic Center Source Catalog

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