{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/sofia-forcast-galactic-center-source-catalog","title":"SOFIA/FORCAST Galactic Center Source Catalog","arxiv_id":"2407.08054","date":"2024-07-10","proceeding":null,"authors":["Angela S. Cotera","Matthew J. Hankins","John Bally","Ashley T. Barnes","Cara D. Battersby","H Perry Hatchfield","Terry L. Herter","Ryan M. Lau","Steven N. Longmore","Elisabeth A. C. Mills","Mark R. Morris","James T. Radomski","Janet P. Simpson","Zachary Stephens","Daniel L. Walker"],"abstract":"The central regions of the Milky Way constitute a unique laboratory for a wide swath of astrophysical studies, consequently the inner $\\sim$400 pc has been the target of numerous large surveys at all accessible wavelengths. In this paper we present a catalog of sources at 25 and 37 $\\mu$m located within all of the regions observed with the SOFIA/FORCAST instrument in the inner $\\sim$200 pc of the Galaxy. The majority of the observations were obtained as part of the SOFIA Cycle 7 Galactic Center Legacy program survey, which was designed to complement the Spitzer/MIPS 24 $\\mu$m catalog in regions saturated in the MIPS observations. Due to the wide variety of source types captured by our observations at 25 and 37 $\\mu$m, we do not limit the FORCAST source catalog to unresolved point sources, or treat all sources as if they are point-like sources. The catalog includes all detectable sources in the regions, resulting in a catalog of 950 sources, including point sources, compact sources, and extended sources. We also provide the user with metrics to discriminate between the source types.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08054v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2407.08054v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"sofia-forcast-galactic-center-source-catalog","repo_url":"https://github.com/mjhankins/SFGCphotcode","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}