First Look Survey (FLS): Community Workshop Report
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The FLS Within-the-Milky-Way component:
A. Science Goals
The workshop sought to identify observations which would help to
characterize the properties of the sky as seen by SIRTF instruments, which
would be useful to SIRTF observers. The participants came up with three
main science goals:
- Characterize the cirrus and background source counts at low galactic latitudes; this will help guide MIPS and IRAC observers who wish to observe close to the galactic plane.
- Characterize internal cirrus and background source counts toward a molecular cloud; it will be useful to observers of stars and dust in molecular clouds to know how limiting are fluctuations in internal cirrus and extinction, and how well one can distinguish embedded and background populations.
- Characterize the ecliptic plane and zodiacal light for solar system observations, to estimate the possible confusion by moving objects and by zodiacal light.
Go back to Workshop Report or FLS history page.
