Legacy Programs

What is available and how do I get it?

Please note that when a Legacy team delivers enhanced data products to IRSA, the data - (as delivered) are made available immediately, but the data must go through a quality assurance - (QA) and ingestion process before being available through IRSA search engines. This process does not happen instantaneously. - (More information about IRSA services, the QA process, etc.) The status of each delivery is noted in the "data deliveries" page for each project. If you want to access validated data, then use the IRSA search form. If you want to access more recent deliveries which have not NOT YET PASSED the QA process - (and thus they may very well contain errors), then use the direct data access link.

The primary IRSA search engine used for Legacy deliveries is a service called Atlas, for images, catalogs and spectra. If the catalogs are large - (over 10,000 rows) then they are also accessible via the service called Gator.

Extragalactic Programs
Nickname (Click for abstract)	PIDs	Title   Primary Investigator - Institution	Team's Web Site	Seminal article	Data Deliveries
GOODS	169 194	GOODS: Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey Mark Dickinson - - National Optical Astronomy Observatory
SWIRE	142  181 182  183 184  185	SWIRE: The Spitzer Wide-area Infrared Extragalactic Survey Carol Lonsdale - IPAC/Caltech
S-COSMOS	20070	SCOSMOS: The Spitzer Deep Survey of the HST COSMOS 2-Degree ACS Field David Sanders - University of Hawaii
S-COSMOS	30143	S-COSMOS: The MIPS Deep Survey of the COSMOS 2-sqdeg Field David Sanders - University of Hawaii
SINGS	159 193	SINGS: The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey - Physics of the Star-Forming ISM and Galaxy Evolution Robert Kennicutt Jr. - University of Arizona
SIMPLE	20708	A Public Deep IRAC Survey in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South Pieter van Dokkum - Yale University
SAGE	20203	SAGE: Spitzer Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution Margaret Meixner - Space Telescope Science Institute
GOALS	30323	GOALS - The Great Observatories All-Sky LIRG Survey Lee Armus - Spitzer Science Center
FIDEL	30948	A Deep-Wide Far-Infrared Survey of Cosmological Star Formation and AGN Activity Mark Dickinson - National Optical Astronomy Observatory
SSGSS	30742	SSGSS: The Spitzer SDSS GALEX Spectroscopic Survey David Schiminovich - Columbia University
SpUDS	40021	A Spitzer Public Legacy Survey of the UKIDSS Ultra Deep Survey James Dunlop - Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory of Edinburgh
SAGE-Spectroscopy	40159	SAGE-Spectroscopy: The Life Cycle of Dust and Gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud Alexander Tielens - NASA Ames Research Center
LVL	40204	The Local Volume Legacy Survey Janice C. Lee - Carnegie Observatories
SAGE-SMC	40245	SAGE-SMC: Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution in the Tidally- Disrupted, Low-Metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud Karl Gordon - University of Arizona
5MUSES	40539	5MUSES: 5 milli-Jansky Unbiased Spitzer Extragalactic Survey George Helou - IPAC/Caltech
SDWFS	40839	SDWFS: The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey Daniel Stern - JPL/Caltech
S5	50568 50569	S5: The Spitzer SDSS Statistical Spectroscopic Survey David Schiminovich - Columbia University
TBD	50286	IRS Legacy Survey of the Green Valley in COSMOS Nick Scoville - California Institute of Technology
MAGES	50148	MIPS AGN and Galaxy Evolution Survey Buell Jannuzi - National Optical Astronomy Observatory
TBD	50249	Ultra-Deep MIPS Imaging of the Lockman Hole Eiichi Egami - University of Arizona
Galactic Programs
Nickname (Click for abstract)	PIDs	Title   Primary Investigator - Institution	Team's Web Site	Seminal article	Data Deliveries
GLIMPSE	146 186  187 188  189 190  191 192  195	GLIMPSE: Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire Ed Churchwell - University of Wisconsin
GLIMPSE II	20201	GLIMPSE II: Imaging the Central +/- 10 Degrees of the Galactic Plane with IRAC Ed Churchwell - University of Wisconsin
GLIMPSE 3D	30570	GLIMPSE 3D: The Vertical Stellar and Interstellar Structure of the Inner Galaxy Robert Benjamin - University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
MIPSGAL	20597	MIPSGAL: A 24 and 70 Micron Survey of the Inner Galactic Disk with MIPS Sean Carey - Spitzer Science Center
MIPSGAL II	30594	MIPSGAL II: Surveying the innermost part of the Galactic plane at 24 and 70 microns with MIPS Sean Carey - Spitzer Science Center
c2d	139 172  173 174  175 176  177 178  179	From Molecular Cores to Planet-Forming Disks Neal Evans II - University of Texas
GouldsBelt	30574	Gould's Belt: Star Formation in the Solar Neighborhood Lori Allen - Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
FEPS	148	The Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context Michael Meyer - University of Arizona
Taurus-2	30816	Taurus 2: Finishing the Spitzer Map of the Taurus Molecular Clouds Deborah Padgett - Spitzer Science Center
Cygnus-X	40184	A Spitzer Legacy Survey of the Cygnus-X Complex Joseph Hora - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
SMOG	50398	Spitzer Mapping of the Outer Galaxy Sean Carey - Spitzer Science Center
TBD	50517	New Transiting Exoplanets: Targets of Opportunity for Spitzer's Legacy Joe Harrington - University of Central Florida

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