The Eureka Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Far-IR Lockman Hole Map (ELFLock)

Click the JPEG image to download the FITS file (5 MB).

The Eureka LBNL Far-IR Lockman Hole (ELFLock) maps are intended to measure the Far-IR background radiation with 160-micron observations from the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS). The map mainly differs from standard Spitzer-processed mosaics of the data in that the background information is preserved, where it is normally removed by median filtering for point-source studies.

Download the entire map (5 MB) by clicking on the image above. "Cutouts" of the map are also available using IRSA's Cutouts Service, which is a general tool to create single or multiple small FITS (and JPEGs) image cutouts of datasets archived at IRSA.

The flux units are MJy/Sr and the pixel size is 15.9". Pixels without data have flux=0.0.

Grossman, B., & Smoot, G. F. 2007, A&A describe the maps, reductions and validation procedures. The map is composed of BCD data from S16 processing of data sets with these Spitzer Astronomical Observation Requests (AORs).

If your research uses Montage, please include the following acknowledgement: "This research made use of Montage, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science Technology Office, Computation Technologies Project, under Cooperative Agreement Number NCC5-626 between NASA and the California Institute of Technology. Montage is maintained by the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive."

The Montage distribution includes an adaptation of the MOPEX algorithm developed at the Spitzer Science Center.