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The IRAS Point Source Catalog consists of 245,889 sources found and
verified by the IRAS (InfraRed Astronomy Satellite). In addition to
B1950 positions, flux densities in Janskys (10^-26 W m^-2 Hz^-1) are provided
at 12.5, 25, 60, and 100 m^-6 (microns). An L following a flux density
indicates that the preceding number is an upper limit; i.e. the source
was not detected at that wavelength. Unlike those in the
PPM and SAO
catalogs, IRAS sources are not uniformly distributed across the sky--IRAS
Point Sources tend to be near the galactic equator.
IRAS is a binary version of the
IRAS Point Source Catalog ordered by right ascension, as it is
distributed. It can be searched by
siras (which calls
scat)
and plotted by skymap.
A 5,742,348-byte gzipped tar file containing this catalog is
available here in Sun/Mac byte order
(readable by scat at
iras.tar.gz
Detailed descriptions of the
binary header format
and
binary entry format are available.
[riras]
[WCSTools siras]