We present a 1.5deg x 8deg (220pc x 1195pc) Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer 24um image of the Galactic Center and an accompanying point source list. This image is the highest spatial resolution (6" ~ 0.25pc) and sensitivity map ever taken across the GC at this wavelength, showing the emission by warm dust in unprecedented detail. Over 120,000 point sources are identified in this catalog with signal-to-noise ratios greater than five and flux densities from 0.6mJy to 9Jy.
@article{arxiv.0811.1557,
title = {A Catalog of 24um Sources Toward the Galactic Center},
author = {J. L. Hinz and G. H. Rieke and F. Yusef-Zadeh and J. Hewitt and Z. Balog and M. Block},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1557},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures, accepted to ApJS, full catalog and color Fig 1 available upon request to first author