SIMLA: The Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph Mapping Legacy Archive

The Spitzer/IRS Mapping Legacy Archive (SIMLA) is a complete set of mid-infrared spectral cubes built from low-resolution mapping-mode fixed-target observations from Spitzer/IRS (5.2-38 um, R~60-130). Contained in this dataset are spectral maps for several hundred spatially-resolved and unresolved objects, including galaxies, molecular clouds, supernova remnants, HII regions, and more. Each cube has been carefully treated to remove astronomical foregrounds and backgrounds as well as detector effects using a novel pipeline we describe here. Cube assembly was facilitated by the CUBISM code, which included automatic detection and removal of bad pixels.

This dataset or service is made available by the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA) at IPAC, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.