The Galactic Plane Infrared Polarization Survey

 

One 10x10 arcmin field (number 152) from the First Data Release (DR1). Background image is the deep photometric sum of all Mimir images. Thin black vector lengths encode percentage polarization (see reference bar in lower left corner), and orientations show polarization position angles on the sky in this equatorial presentation. Click on image to see full size JPEG rendering of the Postscript version - these are contained in the 'Plots' ZIP file on the DR1 page.

 

NEWS: [15 June 2012] The GPIPS First Data Release is available for download on the DR1 page. This Release consists of all photometric, polarimetric, images, and overlays for 578 fields. Over the next few weeks, we expect to migrate these data into searchable form for access via the 'Search_Data' pages. For now, they take the form of 5 large ZIP files.

DR1 Sky Coverage
Sky coverage of Data Release 1 GPIPS fields. The three strips show Galactic longitudes from 18 to 56 deg and latitudes from -1 to +1 deg. Black dots show field center locations; red diamonds indicate which fields are contained in DR1. (click image for a larger version)

 

NEWS: [1 June 2012] The First Data Release ('DR1'), consisting of images, PHOTCAT, and POLCAT files for 559 of the 3,237 10x10 arcmin fields comprising GPIPS will be available on this web site beginning June 15, 2012, coinciding with paper publication of the three ApJSupplements articles describing GPIPS, its calibration, and the DR1 data set. The electronic versions of these papers were released last night by ApJ, but we are still in the process of staging the data to this web site. Please check back on June 15th.

NEWS: [31 May 2012] GPIPS papers recently published:

"The Galactic Plane Infrared Polarization Survey (GPIPS)," Clemens, Dan P.; Pinnick, A. F.; Pavel, M. D.; Taylor, B. W. 2012a, ApJS, 200, 19

"Polarimetric Calibration of Mimir and the Galactic Plane Infrared Polarization Survey (GPIPS)," Clemens, Dan P.; Pinnick, A. F.; Pavel, M. D. 2012b, ApJS, 200, 20

"The Galactic Plane Infrared Polarization Survey (GPIPS): Data Release 1," Clemens, Dan P.; Pavel, M. D.; Cashman, L. R. 2012c, ApJS, 200, 21

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