Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects
(Last update: 10-Apr-2024)

Result of query: info cati SSTGC$

Details on Acronym:   SSTGC
  
SSTGC (Spitzer Space Telescope, Galactic Center)
Write:<<SSTGC NNNNNNN>>
N: 1065565
Object:(IR)  (SIMBAD class: Infrared = Infra-Red Source)
Note:Survey of the central regions of our Galaxy covering a field of view of 2.0 by 1.4 degrees (280 by 210 pc) was performed using IRAC on board of the Spitzer Space Telescope. Point sources were extracted in each of the IRAC channels. These point sources were merged with 2MASS sources in the same field of view to produce a multiwavelength catalog of 1065565 point sources.
Auth.:RAMIREZ S.
Ref:=2008ApJS..175..147R
byRAMIREZ S.V. , ARENDT R.G., SELLGREN K., STOLOVY S.R., COTERA A., SMITH H.A., YUSEF-ZADEH F.
 Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 175, 147-164 (2008)
  Point sources from a Spitzer IRAC survey of the galactic center.
oTables 2-5: <[RAS2008] GC-IRACN-NNNNNN> N=735020+700923+493207+323512. Table 6: <[RAS2008] NNN> (Nos 1-207). Table 7: <SSTGC NNNNNNN> N=1065565.
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as II/295
=E=Catalogue in electronic form as <J/ApJS/175/147/>
Originof the Acronym: p = Pre-registered to IAU Comm.5