Spitzer Photometry of ~1 Million Stars in M31 and 15 Other Galaxies

Abstract

We present Spitzer IRAC $3.6-8\mu$m and MIPS $24\mu$m point-source catalogs for M $31$ and $15$ other mostly large, star forming galaxies at distances $\sim 3.5-14$ Mpc including M $51$, M $83$, M $101$ and NGC $6946$. These catalogs contain $\sim 1$ million sources including $\sim 859,000$ in M 31 and $\sim 116,000$ in the other galaxies. They were created following the procedures described in Khan et al. (2015) through a combination of point spread function (PSF) fitting and aperture photometry. These data products constitute a resource to improve our understanding of the IR-bright ($3.6-24\mu$m) point-source populations in crowded extragalactic stellar fields and to plan observations with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Accepted for publication in ApJ. 4 figures, 17 tables. Catalog files available at this http url https://www.dropbox.com/s/x5dcxtzqkvs2i9t/16cats.zip

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