MIPAPS Data

This page provides access to the data from the MIPAPS and the ground-based Hα surveys, IPHAS (The INT Photometric Hα Survey of the Northern Galactic Plane) and VPHAS+ (The VST Photometric Hα Survey of the Southern Galactic Plane), as utilized by Kim et al. (2025). For detailed information on the data preparation and processing, please refer to the paper.

Galactic Plane Mosaics

The table below lists the Galactic plane mosaic images sorted by Galactic longitude, along with links to the corresponding data files in FITS format. The images are projected in the plate carrée (CAR) projection using Galactic coordinates, with a pixel scale of 52 arcseconds for MIPAPS and approximately 5 arcseconds for IPHAS and VPHAS+. The quicklook images are reproduced from Kim et al. (2025).

Galactic longtiude

Quicklook

Data [1]

Whole plane

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ℓ = 0°–30°

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ℓ = 30°–60°

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ℓ = 60°–90°

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ℓ = 90°–120°

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ℓ = 120°–150°

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ℓ = 150°–180°

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ℓ = 180°–210°

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ℓ = 210°–240°

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ℓ = 240°–270°

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ℓ = 270°–300°

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ℓ = 300°–330°

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ℓ = 330°–360°

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Calibrated Data of the MIPAPS

Search for and download the MIPAPS survey data of 241 fields using the following form:

Object
Object name is resolved by Sesame.
Coordinate
e.g., "83.63 22.01", "05h34m31s +22d00m52.0s", "05:34:31 +22:00:52"

Data Description

The data files (241 fields, 3 files for each field) distributed through the above form are in the FITS format. Size of each data file is about 490 KB. Each FITS file contains one primary HDU (header and data unit) of the calibrated image of PAAL (*_PAAL.fits), PAAC (*_PAAC.fits), or continuum-subtracted Paα image (*_PAAL-PAAC.fits). When using the data downloaded through the above form, please refer to the Guideline. A paper describing details of the observations and data processing will be submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series in early 2025.

Guideline for Publication

Acknowledgements

When publishing a paper utilizing data downloaded from this page, please include the following acknowledgement:

This research is based on observations with MIRIS, a KASI project in the collaboration with KARI and SaTReC.

Also, please refer to the following paper for the instrument:

W. Han, D.-H. Lee, W.-S. Jeong, Y. Park, B. Moon, S.-J. Park, J. Pyo, I.-J. Kim, W.-K. Park, D. Lee, K.-I. Seon, U.-W. Nam, S.-M. Cha, K. Park, J.-H. Park, I.-S. Yuk, C. H., Ree, H. Jin, S. C. Yang, H.-Y. Park, G.-H. Shin, J.-K. Seo, S.-W. Rhee, J.-O. Park, H. M. Lee, H. Murakami, and T. Matsumoto. 2014, MIRIS: A Compact Wide-field Infrared Space Telescope. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 126, 853–862. [ DOI | ADS ]

and the following papers for the MIPAPS survey:

I.-J. Kim, J. Pyo, W.-S. Jeong, K.-I. Seon, T. Nakagawa, M. G. Kim, W.-K. Park, D.-H. Lee, D. Lee, B. Moon, S.-J. Park, Y. Park, T. Matsumoto, and W. Han. 2018, MIRIS Paα Galactic Plane Survey. I. Comparison with IPHAS Hα in l = 96°–116°. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 238, 28. [ DOI | ADS ]

I.-J. Kim, J. Pyo, K.-I. Seon, W.-S. Jeong, T. Nakagawa, and T. Matsumoto. 2025, MIRIS Paα Galactic Plane Survey. II. The Catalog of Paα Emission-line Sources. (submitted)