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Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE) I: Overview and Initial Results | | Margaret Meixner
; Karl D. Gordon
; Remy Indebetouw
; Joseph L. Hora
; Barbara Whitney
; Robert Blum
; William Reach
; Jean-Philippe Bernard
; Marilyn Meade
; Brian Babler
; Charles W. Engelbracht
; Bi-Qing For
; Karl Misselt
; Uma Vijh
; Claus Leitherer
; Martin Cohen
; Ed B. Churchwell
; Francois Boulanger
; Jay A. Frogel
; Yasuo Fukui
; Jay Gallagher
; Varoujan Gorjian
; Jason Harris
; Douglas Kelly
; Akiko Kawamura
; SoYoung Kim
; William B. Latter
; Suzanne Madden
; Ciska Markwick-Kemper
; Akira Mizuno
; Norikazu Mizuno
; Jeremy Mould
; Antonella Nota
; M.S. Oey
; Knut Olsen
; Toshikazu Onishi
; Roberta Paladini
; Nino Panagia
; Pablo Perez-Gonzalez
; Hiroshi Shibai
; Sato Shuji
; Linda Smith
; Lister Staveley-Smith
; A.G.G.M. Tielens
; Toshiya Ueta
; Schuyler Van Dyk
; Kevin Volk
; Michael Werner
; Dennis Zaritsky
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14 Jun 2006 | | Abstract: | We are performing a uniform and unbiased, ~7x7 degrees imaging survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the IRAC and MIPS instruments on board the Spitzer Space Telescope in order to survey the agents of a galaxy’s evolution (SAGE), the interstellar medium (ISM) and stars in the LMC. The detection of diffuse ISM with column densities >1.2x10^21 H cm^-2 permits detailed studies of dust processes in the ISM. SAGE’s point source sensitivity enables a complete census of newly formed stars with masses >3 solar masses that will determine the current star formation rate in the LMC. SAGE’s detection of evolved stars with mass loss rates >1x10^-8 solar masses per year will quantify the rate at which evolved stars inject mass into the ISM of the LMC. The observing strategy includes two epochs in 2005, separated by three months, that both mitigate instrumental artifacts and constrain source variability. The SAGE data are non-proprietary. The data processing includes IRAC and MIPS pipelines and a database for mining the point source catalogs, which will be released to the community in support of Spitzer proposal cycles 4 and 5. We present initial results on the epoch 1 data with a special focus on the N79 and N83 region. The SAGE epoch 1 point source catalog has ~4 million sources. The point source counts are highest for the IRAC 3.6 microns band and decrease dramatically towards longer wavelengths consistent with the fact that stars dominate the point source catalogs and that the dusty objects, e.g. young stellar objects and dusty evolved stars that detected at the longer wavelengths, are rare in comparison. We outline a strategy for identifying foreground MW stars, that may comprise as much as 18% of the source list, and background galaxies, that may comprise ~12% of the source list. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0606356 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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