GLIMPSE. I. An SIRTF Legacy Project to Map the Inner Galaxy

By R. Benjamin, E. Churchwell, B. Babler, T. Bania, D. Clemens, M. Cohen, J. Dickey, R. Indebetouw, J. Jackson, H. Kobulnicky and 10 more. 2003

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The Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid‐Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE), a Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) Legacy Science Program, will be a fully sampled, confusion‐limited infrared survey of 2/3 of the inner Galactic disk with a pixel resolution of ∼1.″2 using the Infrared Array Camera at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 μm. The survey will cover Galactic latitudes |b|≤1° and longitudes |l| = 10°–65° (both sides of the Galactic center). The survey area contains the outer ends of the Galactic bar, the Galactic molecular ring, and the inner spiral arms. The GLIMPSE team will process these data to produce a point‐source catalog, a point‐source data archive, and a set of mosaicked images. We summarize our observing strategy, give details of our data products, and summarize some of the principal science questions that will be addressed using GLIMPSE data. Up‐to‐date documentation, survey progress, and information on complementary data sets are available on the GLIMPSE Web site.

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The RMS survey : Galactic distribution of massive star formation (2013, background): “…other surveys (e.g. 2MASS, UKIDSS, VVV, GLIMPSE, MIPSGAL, ATLASGAL and CORNISH; Skrutskie et al. 2006; Minniti et al. 2010; Lawrence et al. 2007; Benjamin et al. 2003; Carey et al. 2009; Schuller et al. 2009 and Hoare et al. 2012, respectively) of a mid-infrared colour selected sample of ∼5000…”
THE WISE CATALOG OF GALACTIC H ii REGIONS (2013, methodology): “Kobulnicky et al. (2013) for example find that for background levels of 200 MJy sr−1 in GLIMPSE 8.0 μm data (∼20% of all GLIMPSE pixel values are higher than this), the data are only ∼50% complete for point sources between 13th and 14th magnitude (0.4 mJy to 0.15 mJy).”
Spitzer SAGE Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud. II. Evolved Stars and Infrared Color-Magnitude Diagrams (2006, methodology): “Details of the SAGE IRAC pipeline processing are given by Meixner et al. (2006); the pipeline is based on theGLIMPSE pipeline (Benjamin et al. 2003).”
STAR FORMATION ACTIVITY OF CORES WITHIN INFRARED DARK CLOUDS (2009, methodology): “The 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 μm images were obtained by the Spitzer Space Telescope as part of the GLIMPSE survey (Benjamin et al. 2003).”
The Bubbling Galactic Disk (2006, background): “The Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE; Benjamin et al. 2003) provides a new, high spatial resolution view of the inner two-thirds of the Galactic plane at infrared wavelengths from 3.6 to 8.0 m.”
A Multiwavelength Study of M17: The Spectral Energy Distribution and PAH Emission Morphology of a Massive Star Formation Region (2007, background): “GLIMPSE and 2MASS M17 is the brightest large (>100 in extent) source of diffuse mid-IR emission in the entire GLIMPSE survey area (jlj ¼ 10 Y65 , jbj 1 ; Benjamin et al. 2003).”
ATLASGAL — towards a complete sample of massive star forming clumps ⋆ (2014, background): “Our ability to make significant progress in this field has been dramatically enhanced in recent years with the completion of a large number of Galactic plane surveys that cover the whole wavelength range from the near-infrared to the radio [e.g. the UKIDSS GPS, Lucas et al. 2008; GLIMPSE, Benjamin e”
THE RED MSX SOURCE SURVEY: THE MASSIVE YOUNG STELLAR POPULATION OF OUR GALAXY (2013, background): “Unfortunately existing published data covering a significant fraction of the Galactic Plane are either of low spatial resolution (eg IRAS: cf Chan et al 1996, or Campbell et al. 1989) or lack the dynamic range required to study a wide mass range (eg GLIMPSE: Benjamin et al 2003, Churchwell et al 200”
The evolution of the spectral energy distribution in massive young stellar objects (2008, methodology): “The use of GLIMPSE survey data (Benjamin et al. 2003) might be more appropriate in principle, given Spitzer’s better resolution in the mid-IR, but there are two limitations.”
Ammonia from cold high-mass clumps discovered in the inner Galactic disk by the ATLASGAL survey (2012, background): “…plane surveys, conducted over a similar range, are the MSX survey covering 8 to 21 μm (Price et al. 2001), 2MASS around 2 μm (Skrutskie et al. 2006), GLIMPSE from 3 to 8 μm (Benjamin et al. 2003), MIPSGAL at 24 and 70 μm (Carey et al. 2009) and HiGAL from 70 to 500 μm (Molinari et al. 2010).”
The RMS survey - 6 cm continuum VLA observations towards candidate massive YSOs in the northern hemisphere (2009, background): “However, a large proportion of these sources are located within a region surveyed by Spitzer as part of the GLIMPSE legacy project (Benjamin et al. 2003).”
STAR FORMATION IN MASSIVE CLUSTERS VIA THE WILKINSON MICROWAVE ANISOTROPY PROBE AND THE SPITZER GLIMPSE SURVEY (2009, methodology): “In a forthcoming paper we show that almost all of our high luminosity WMAP sources, as well as the less luminous sources, are associated with largebubbles seen in GLIMPSE images, and most have fairly compact clusters in the bubble interior.”
FILAMENTARY STRUCTURE OF STAR-FORMING COMPLEXES (2009, methodology): “8 Figure 6 shows the IC348 region in the E part of the Perseus complex, in contours of integrated intensity of the J=1-0 line of 13CO (Ridge et al 2006), with associated YSOs based on Spitzer Space Telescope observations (Muench et al 2007).”
ATLASGAL - properties of a complete sample of Galactic clumps (2017, background): “6 we present a few examples of the clusters identified by the friends-of-friends analysis; the distributions of clumps are overlaid on 8 µm Spitzer images taken as part of the GLIMPSE legacy survey.”
THE GREEN BANK TELESCOPE H ii REGION DISCOVERY SURVEY. II. THE SOURCE CATALOG (2011, methodology): “Our analysis here also uses 8.0µm data from the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE: Benjamin et al. 2003), which were obtained with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC: Fazio et al. 2004) on the Spitzer Space Telescope.”
INTRINSICALLY RED SOURCES OBSERVED BY SPITZER IN THE GALACTIC MIDPLANE (2008, methodology): “In the context of star formation, the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE; Benjamin et al. 2003) surveys - which to date includes GLIMPSE I, GLIMPSE II, and GLIMPSE 3D - and the MIPS Galaxy (MIPSGAL) surveys - which include the MIPSGAL I and II surveys - have so far…”
Characterizing precursors to stellar clusters with Herschel (2011, methodology): “We use the mid-IR data taken as part of the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE; 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, and 8.0 µm, Benjamin et al. 2003) and the MIPSGAL survey (24 µm; Carey et al. 2009).”
ATLASGAL - The APEX telescope large area survey of the galaxy at 870 μm (2009, background): “The source at (l, b) = (18.76, 0.26) coincides with a very compact object in the GLIMPSE (Benjamin et al. 2003) image (Fig.”