Status observations september 2022 (77% of maps finished)

SOFIA stopped operations in september 2022. Many sources were completed, the table below gives an overview of the area covered. All data is public available on the IPAC archive.

 

Source	Tiles mapped	Tiles planned
RCW120	4	4
Cygnus X	18	18
M16	11.25	12
M17	8.44	13
NGC6334	5.76	16
NGC7538	4	4
RCW36	1.86	4
RCW49	6.4	12
RCW79	9	9
W40	8.67	12
W43	12	12

 

 

Status observations december 2021 (67% of maps finished)

Source	Time request (h)	Time flown	% of map done
RCW36	3.65	1.95	46.4
RCW79	7.55	7.22	95.5
RCW49	9.9	6.38	53.3
RCW120	3.65	3.68	97.9
NGC6334	13.05	4.87	36.0
M17	10.65	1.66	13.1
M16	9.9	6.51	58.0
W40	9.9	6.56	58.3
W43	9.9	9.04	85.0
Cygnus X	14.55	13.36	78.6
NGC7538	3.65	328	81.3

April 2021

Science Advances publication on RCW120 (Luisi, Anderson, Schneider et al. 2021).

ApJ publication on RCW49 (Tiwari, Karim, Pound et al. 2021).

Interview in 'Welt der Physik' (in german)

February 2021

SOFIA observed from Cologne. One source (Cygnus X) was observed for the FEEDBACK program. In total 35% of the FEEDBACK program are done.

October 2020

PASP publication on the FEEDBACK program (Schneider, Simon, Guevara et al. 2020).

March 2020

Observations done in Palmdale. 32% of the whole FEEDBACK program is done.

October 2019

First data release of sources observed during Cylce 7 in may/june 2019 from Palmdale and Christchurch (see below).

August/september 2019

17 h out of 96 h granted were observed in Cylce 7 for FEEDBACK.

July 2019

Observations started in Christchurch.

May/june 2019

Observations started in Palmdale.