NASA Spitzer Space Telescope archive (IRSA) (EXT-026)
Summary 🟡 ~
- Owner Unit: External partner organization
- Sub-unit: NASA Spitzer Space Telescope data archive (IRSA / IPAC)
- Content Type: partnership
- Campus/Location: Off-campus (NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive)
- Last Verified: August 19, 2026
Organization
Spitzer was a NASA infrared space telescope. The mission has ended; science data remain available through the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA). IRSA is the current public access path, not a DePaul-owned archive.
Access status
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: Spitzer is retired; data access is through NASA/IPAC IRSA (public archive / historical guest-observer programs), not DePaul-owned instruments.
- Access URL: irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/spitzer.html
- Contact name: Office of Research Services / Physics and Astrophysics
- Contact email: ors@depaul.edu
- Verification date: 2026-08-19
- Source URLs:
- irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/Missions/spitzer.html
- www.spitzer.caltech.edu
Relationship to DePaul
Anuj Sarma’s DePaul research page states he was awarded Spitzer time to observe the star-forming region NGC 6334A with the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS). That is historical guest-observer time (page last modified 2006); current DePaul use is via the public archive, not a campus telescope. Do not infer ongoing Spitzer observing for other Physics faculty without additional evidence.
Known collaborations & connections
- Anuj Sarma — named Spitzer IRS program (NGC 6334A)
- Physics & Astrophysics Laboratories
- Related radio user facilities: EXT-025 NRAO
Collaborative documents
| Document type | Scope | Parties | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guest-observer / archive access | Spitzer IRS observations of NGC 6334A | Sarma ↔ NASA Spitzer / IRSA | Named on faculty research page | sources/inbox/2026-08-19-astro-user-facilities/source_snapshot/captured/sarma-condor-research.html (depaul/SRC-001578) |
| Public archive | Spitzer data holdings | NASA/IPAC IRSA | Active archive site | sources/inbox/2026-08-19-astro-user-facilities/source_snapshot/captured/spitzer-irsa.html (depaul/SRC-001583) |
Verification
- Status: likely (
~) - Confidence: 80/100
- Rationale: Named guest-observer program on a DePaul faculty research page; current access is the NASA archive because the telescope is retired.
- Last verified: 2026-08-19
- Evidence:
- Sarma research page names Spitzer IRS time on NGC 6334A —
sources/inbox/2026-08-19-astro-user-facilities/source_snapshot/captured/sarma-condor-research.html(depaul/SRC-001578) - IRSA Spitzer mission archive —
sources/inbox/2026-08-19-astro-user-facilities/source_snapshot/captured/spitzer-irsa.html(depaul/SRC-001583)
Equipment
NASA Spitzer data archive (telescope retired). Not DePaul inventory.
Last verified: July 29, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: Spitzer at IRSA
- Website: Spitzer mission site
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Anuj Sarma (Faculty lead) — asarma@depaul.edu · Profile
Documented Relationships
NASA infrared archive / historical guest-observer access for DePaul star-formation research.
Linked Relationship IDs
- CSH-005 - Physics & Astrophysics Laboratories
- PER-145 - Anuj Sarma
- EXT-025 - National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
Notes
Bernhard Beck-Winchatz publishes infrared-astronomy education materials; that is not treated as Spitzer guest-observer evidence and is not linked here.