SOFIA Far-Infrared Polarimetric Large Area CMZ Exploration (FIREPLACE) Data

https://doi.org/10.26131/IRSA664
https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/doi/10.26131/IRSA664

10.26131/IRSA664

IPAC

SOFIA Team

SOFIA Far-Infrared Polarimetric Large Area CMZ Exploration (FIREPLACE) Data

Far-Infrared Polarimetric Large Area CMZ Exploration (FIREPLACE) is a SOFIA Legacy program to utilize HAWC+ to map the central region of the Galaxy at 214 um utilizing the shared-risk scan mode polarimetry observing strategy. The resulting data product yields a transformative data set for understanding the magnetic fields in the cool dust ring in the central 200 pc. Such a data set would elucidate the role of the magnetic field in Galactic center dynamics from the 200 pc scale down to scales below a parsec.

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.

Dataset

https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SOFIA/Legacy/FIREPLACE/overview.html

2026