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C2D High Reliability STARS Catalog

Metadata Updated: March 13, 2026

The Cores to Disks (C2D) Spitzer Legacy Program used all three Spitzer instruments (IRAC, MIPS, and IRS) to observe sources that span the evolutionary sequence from molecular cores to protoplanetary disks, encompassing a wide range of cloud masses, stellar masses, and star-forming environments. In addition to targeting about 150 known compact cores, it surveyed with IRAC and MIPS (3.6-70 mum) the entire areas of five of the nearest large molecular clouds for new candidate protostars and substellar objects as faint as 0.001 solar luminosities. C2D observed with IRAC and MIPS about 190 systems likely to be in the early stages of planetary system formation (ages up to about 10 Myr), probing the evolution of the circumstellar dust, the raw material for planetary cores.\n\nThe High Reliability STARS Catalog provides the most reliable list of sources in the C2D STARS fields (160 targeted stars). It is derived from the Full Catalog but requires good signal-to-noise detection in some bands.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date March 13, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date March 13, 2026
Publisher NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive
Maintainer
Identifier ivo://irsa.ipac/spitzer/catalog/c2d/c2d-hrstars
Data Last Modified 2026-03-09
Category Astrophysics
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL ivo://irsa.ipac/spitzer/catalog/c2d/c2d-hrstars
License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 21aff880ea27d0339f6583d9442378ceabd3cda1f3684b0675c75437793a712b
Source Schema Version 1.1

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