SINGS: The SIRTF Nearby Galaxies Survey

By Robert C. Kennicutt Jr., Jr., Lee Armus, G. Bendo, D. Calzetti, D. Dale, B. Draine, C. Engelbracht, K. Gordon, A. Grauer and 14 more. 2001

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The SIRTF Nearby Galaxy Survey is a comprehensive infrared imaging and spectroscopic survey of 75 nearby galaxies. Its primary goal is to characterize the infrared emission of galaxies and their principal infrared‐emitting components, across a broad range of galaxy properties and star formation environments. SINGS will provide new insights into the physical processes connecting star formation to the interstellar medium properties of galaxies and provide a vital foundation for understanding infrared observations of the distant universe and ultraluminous and active galaxies. The galaxy sample and observing strategy have been designed to maximize the scientific and archival value of the data set for the SIRTF user community at large. The SIRTF images and spectra will be supplemented by a comprehensive multiwavelength library of ancillary and complementary observations, including radio continuum, H i, CO, submillimeter, BVRIJHK, Hα, Paα, ultraviolet, and X‐ray data. This paper describes the main astrophysical issues to be addressed by SINGS, the galaxy sample and the observing strategy, and the SIRTF and other ancillary data products.

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THE PdBI ARCSECOND WHIRLPOOL SURVEY (PAWS). I. A CLOUD-SCALE/MULTI-WAVELENGTH VIEW OF THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM IN A GRAND-DESIGN SPIRAL GALAXY (2013, methodology): “M 51 was imaged from the near- to far-infrared by all Spitzer instruments as part of the SINGS Legacy project (Kennicutt et al. 2003).”
THE SPITZER LOCAL VOLUME LEGACY: SURVEY DESCRIPTION AND INFRARED PHOTOMETRY (2009, background): “Multi-wavelength datasets that do include such systems generally only provide representative samples of this low-mass galaxy population (e.g., SINGS; Kennicutt et al. 2003), and are thus not suitable for studies that seek to probe the low metallicity dwarf galaxy regime and that require datasets whi”
A dynamical model for the extraplanar gas in spiral galaxies (2005, background): “It has a fairly high SFR with very bright H II regions (Drissen et al. 1999) and a global SFR rate of 1.2 M yr−1 (Kennicutt et al. 2003).”
HIGH-RESOLUTION ROTATION CURVES AND GALAXY MASS MODELS FROM THINGS (2008, methodology): “To characterize the stellar distributions in our sample galaxies, we use the 3.6 μm images from SINGS (Kennicutt et al. 2003; for NGC 2366, NGC 2903 and DDO 154, which are not part of the SINGS sample, we have retrieved data from the Spitzer archive.)”
RADIAL DISTRIBUTION OF STARS, GAS, AND DUST IN SINGS GALAXIES. II. DERIVED DUST PROPERTIES (2009, background): “The SINGS sample (Kennicutt et al. 2003) consists of 75 nearby galaxies which span the range in morphological type, luminosity and FIR/optical luminosity observed in the local universe.”
Freshly Formed Dust in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant as Revealed by the Spitzer Space Telescope (2007, methodology): “The spectra were processed with the S12 version of the IRS pipeline using theCUBISMpackage (Kennicutt et al. 2003; Smith et al. 2007), whereby backgrounds were subtracted and an extended emission correction was applied.”
The lifecycle of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies (2019, methodology): “For consistency, the same steps have been applied both to the WFI and SINGS data.”
Fitting the integrated spectral energy distributions of galaxies (2010, background): “Multi-wavelength datasets that do include such systems often only provide representative samples of this galaxy population (e.g., SINGS; Kennicutt et al. 2003), and are thus not suitable for studies that both seek to probe the low metallicity dwarf galaxy regime and require datasets which are true…”
Resolved spectroscopy of gravitationally lensed galaxies: recovering coherent velocity fields in subluminous z ~ 2-3 galaxies (2009, methodology): “We note that the flux isophotes used to define Hii regions in local spirals are much lower, so to quantify this effect we extract individual Hii regions from narrow-band Hα images of local galaxies from the SINGS and 11HUGS surveys (Kennicutt et al. 2003; Lee et al. 2007) using various isophotes.”
Analysis of galaxy spectral energy distributions from far-UV to far-IR with CIGALE: studying a SINGS test sample (2009, methodology): “As our study of the multi-wavelength photometric data of a test sample of 39 nearby galaxies selected from SINGS (Kennicutt et al. 2003; Dale et al. 2007; Muñoz-Mateos et al. 2009) shows, especially the star-formation-related properties can be derived with high reliability if the photometry…”
Resolved stellar mass maps of galaxies. I: method and implications for global mass estimates (2009, methodology): “We draw our sample from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS; Kennicutt et al. 2003), a comprehensive imaging and spectroscopic study of 75 nearby galaxies (D < 30 Mpc) conducted in the IR with the Spitzer Space Telescope, for which coordinated observations at visible, NIR,…”
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Absolute Calibration and Characterization of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer. II. 70 μm Imaging (2007, methodology): “The comparison is done using the 75 Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS, Kennicutt et al. 2003) galaxies from global measurements given by Dale et al. (2005) and updated by Dale et al. (2007).”
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Radial Variation of Attenuation and Star Formation in the Largest Late-Type Disks Observed with GALEX (2006, methodology): “…interesting as there is much more scatter when individual regions are looked at, see for instance Calzetti et al. (2005) in M51a, or Thilker et al. (2006) in NGC 7331, both studies based on the GALEX/SINGS joint analysis of GALEX and Spitzer data from the SINGS project (Kennicutt et al. 2003b).”
An Ultraviolet-to-Radio Broadband Spectral Atlas of Nearby Galaxies (2006, background): “We are interested in exploring how the infrared-to-ultraviolet ratio depends on quantities like optical and mid-infrared morphology, ultraviolet and far-infrared color, and geometry within the SINGS sample (Kennicutt et al. 2003).”
The Mid-Infrared Spectrum of Star-forming Galaxies: Global Properties of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Emission (2006, background): “The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS, Kennicutt et al. 2003) provides an exceptional sample in which to explore the global and spatially resolved behavior of these fundamental emission bands over a much broader range of physical environments than has been possible before.”