IRAS Faint Source Catalog

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The IRAS Faint Source Catalog is an astronomical catalog listing faint infrared sources detected across the sky by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite mission.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf IRAS catalog
astronomical catalog
infrared source catalog
access online
acronym FSC NERFINISHED
basedOnMission IRAS NERFINISHED
compiledBy Infrared Astronomical Satellite NERFINISHED
contains faint infrared sources
coordinateSystem equatorial coordinates
covers entire sky
dataSource IRAS all-sky survey NERFINISHED
dataType compact sources
point sources
distributionFormat machine-readable catalog
epochOfObservations 1983
field astronomy
infrared astronomy
hasSubset IRAS Faint Source Survey galaxy sample
language English
maintainedBy NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive NERFINISHED
missionCountry Japan NERFINISHED
Netherlands NERFINISHED
United Kingdom NERFINISHED
United States NERFINISHED
observatory Infrared Astronomical Satellite NERFINISHED
photometricBands 100 micrometre band
12 micrometre band
25 micrometre band
60 micrometre band
provides confusion flags
infrared flux densities
quality flags
source positions
purpose to list faint infrared sources detected by IRAS
relatedTo IRAS Point Source Catalog NERFINISHED
selectionCriterion faint infrared flux levels
usedFor extragalactic surveys
studies of evolved stars
studies of galaxies
studies of star-forming regions
usedIn cosmological large-scale structure studies
infrared sky surveys
multiwavelength cross-identifications
wavelengthRange infrared

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Infrared Astronomical Satellite dataProduct IRAS Faint Source Catalog
IRAS Point Source Catalog relatedCatalog IRAS Faint Source Catalog