Taurus Catalog: Spitzer Telescope Infrared Photometry of 269,358 Point Sources
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Description
269,358 point sources from the Spitzer Space Telescope survey of the Taurus Molecular Clouds. The catalog provides flux densities in the 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0, and 24 micron bands, with some sources also having 70 micron data. It was produced by NASA as part of the Taurus Spitzer Legacy project, with the last metadata update recorded in March 2026.
Use Cases
Identify and classify young stellar objects based on infrared flux densities.
Analyze spectral energy distributions of point sources using multi-band photometry.
Study the structure and population of the Taurus star-forming region.
Train machine learning models for source classification using infrared photometric features.
Strengths
Catalog contains 269,358 point sources, providing a substantial sample for analysis.
Photometry is provided at multiple aperture radii for IRAC sources and includes PSF-fitting for MIPS data.
Covers approximately 44 square degrees of a well-known star-formation region.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count for the full survey area is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Collection Method
Observational data from the IRAC and MIPS cameras aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Time Range
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Freshness
Last updated 2026-03 13 17:48:38.940922; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Taurus Molecular Clouds star-formation region.
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