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On behalf of the Spitzer user community, the SSC conducted a First-Look
Survey (FLS) as one of the first science tasks during nominal operations,
which started on day 98 of the mission. The FLS is the inaugural Director's Discretionary Time (DDT)
program.
Goals
The primary goals of this ~110-hour survey were (1) to provide a
characteristic "first-look" at the mid-infrared sky at sensitivities that
are ~100 times deeper than previous systematic large-area surveys; and (2)
to rapidly process the data and place it into the public domain in time
to impact early Spitzer investigations.
Data release
See the Extragalactic FLS page for several recent
releases.
Data are available from our archive popular
products website.
Finding the AORs.
The FLS Programs and AORs are listed with Tom Soifer as PI (because it is
DDT). The information to find these AORs in Spot (or the ROC or other
Spitzer products) is:
| pid | program name (links to abstract) | description |
| 26 | FLS_EXTRAGAL | First Look Survey -- Extragalactic Component |
| 98 | FLS_ECLIPTIC_PLANE | First Look Survey - Ecliptic Plane Component |
| 104 | FLS_GAL | First Look Survey - Galactic Component |
More Information.
History of the FLS
In early 1999, SSC Director Tom Soifer (Caltech) and
Spitzer Project Scientist Mike Werner (JPL) chartered an ad hoc advisory
committee, chaired by Robert E. Williams (Space Telescope Science
Institute). The committee met on April 29-30, 1999 in Pasadena, with the
directive to consider the most appropriate response(s) of Spitzer to
the loss of WIRE.
A Community Workshop, convened by Tom Soifer, Director of the Spitzer
Science Center (SSC), met on September 15 and 16, 1999 on
the Caltech Campus in Pasadena, CA. The co-Chairs of the Workshop were
Jim Condon (NRAO-Charlottesville) and Phil Myers (Harvard-Smithsonian
CfA). The purpose of the workshop was to formulate a scientific
definition of the Spitzer First Look Survey (FLS), in terms of
observational goals and priorities.
PDF version of an overview talk given by Lisa
Storrie-Lombardi in May 2002 for the JPL Infrared Astronomy 001 talk
series.
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