What other kinds of archival data are part of NITARP?

NITARP uses archival data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), the NASA/IPAC/NExScI Star and Exoplanet Database (NStED), the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) and other NASA archive holdings. Because this program started as a primarily Spitzer program, much of the information on the wiki right now pertains to Spitzer. This page contains (will contain) more information about all of these other archives.

NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA)

IRSA is chartered to store and serve data (images, catalogs, and some spectra) from NASA's infrared and sub-millimeter missions. IRSA also develops unique, Web-based tools to extract the maximum science value from its data sets.

There are two primary means for retrieving data from the archive:

By Mission or Data Set

From IRSA’s navigation bar, select Missions to view a list of all missions that have data served by IRSA. The associated search tools for specific data sets will be pre-populated with mission search parameters.

By IRSA Service

IRSA has various search services that provide data in different formats. Here is a brief description of each:

[http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/Gator/ Full Catalog Search) (formerly known as Gator) searches all source catalogs served by IRSA.

Popular Catalog Search provides quick access to IRSA’s popular catalogs, including 2MASS, IRAS, MSX and Spitzer.

Finder Chart is a visualization tool to cross-compare 2MASS, DSS and SDSS image data sets. It displays a finder chart showing the same region of the sky at various wavelengths and epochs.

[http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/applications/Cutouts/ Cutouts[ Returns small "cutouts" of a user-specified size of image data sets archived at IRSA. Images are provided in FITS and JPEG formats.