Hot Science With a "Warm" Telescope - Archival Research Opportunities in the Spitzer "Warm" Mission

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.4729s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #47.29; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.808

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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By the end of the Spitzer cryogenic mission, the Spitzer archive will hold 25TB of data, and may generate an additional 4TB per year during the warm mission. This unique dataset enables a wide range of small and legacy-class archival research opportunities, as described in this presentation. These include asteroid counts, a Y-dwarf search, a systematic study of infrared extinction, a census of infrared dark clouds, extragalactic 16 and 70 micron surveys, searches for z>1 galaxy clusters, searches for dust obscured AGN and quasars, and stacking analyses of galaxy populations. In spring 2009, the liquid helium cryogen on-board Spitzer will be expended, but the observatory will remain operative with 3.6 and 4.5 micron imaging capabilities over two 5'x5’ fields-of-view. Sensitivity in these channels will remain unchanged from the cryogenic mission. During the "warm” mission, Spitzer can operate until early 2014 with extremely high-efficiency, providing up to 35,000 hours of science observing time. This enables several unprecedented opportunities to address fundamental and key scientific questions requiring large allocations of observing time, while maintaining opportunities for broad community use with more "traditional" time allocations, as well as funding for archival research.

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