First results from the ISOCAM parallel mode.
Altieri, B.; Kessler, M. F.; Prusti, T.; Blommaert, J. A. D. L.; Cesarsky, C.; Perault, M.; Abergel, A.; Okumura, K.; Siebenmorgen, R.; Metcalfe, L.; Biviano, A.; Pollock, A. M. T.; Gallais, P.; Boulade, O.; Guest, S.; Ott, S.; Starck, J. L.; Sauvageon, A.
Abstract
We present first results of a survey being made in a broad-band 6.75μm filter using the ISOCAM infrared camera in its parallel mode at ~6" resolution. So far we have analysed a sky area of ~1.375deg^2^ down to a limiting flux of 5 mJy and detected a total of 287 objects. The final survey will cover a sky area of ~33deg^2^, most of which will be done in staring mode, to which we have restricted ourselves in the present paper. The final catalogue should reach a typical sensitivity limit of ~1 mJy. We estimate that at the detection limit 99% of the objects will have a galactic origin.