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If you're new to infrared astronomy, here are some suggested resources for getting up to speed. It's not a complete list by any means.

Infrared Astronomy

Information from the IPAC outreach group. Also available in Spanish.

Infrared timeline.

History of IR astronomy, but particularly useful for links to all the missions.

Infrared astronomy gallery

Images from many infrared surveys.

Spitzer Field Guides

Guides to topics related to IR astronomy and the Spitzer mission.

IR data supported by IPAC (Infrared Processing and Analysis Center) -- not a complete list!

• IRSA -- Infrared Science Archive
• 2MASS -- 2 Micron All-Sky Survey, JHKs survey of the sky
• ISO -- Infrared Space Observatory, a European mission, 1995-1998
• MSX -- Midcourse Space Experiment, a US Air Force mission, 1996-1997
• IRAS -- Infrared Astronomical Satellite, a joint US/UK/Netherlands mission, 1983

Catalog of Infrared Observations

Gezari, Pitts, and Schmitz, GSFC. Includes >396,000 observations published through 1998.

SSC links page

lists of our partners and related links of interest.

Texbook: Handbook of Infrared Astronomy, by I. S. Glass

1999, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521633850

Article: Detection Limits in the Infrared

By Rieke, Young, and Gautier, Space Science Reviews, 74, pages 17-25 (1996)

Linelists

• ISO list at IPAC
• ISO list at Garching (different than the IPAC ISO link above)
• NIST list

Also see A Uniform Database of 2.4-45.4 Micron Spectra from the Infrared Space Observatory Short Wavelength Spectrometer by G. C. Sloan, Kathleen E. Kraemer, Stephan D. Price, and Russell F. Shipman, 2003, ApJS, 147, 379