RST·DATA

Carina Nebula

sim_carina_f087_035 · GO-1155 · WFI SCA07

simulated

Procedural preview

Not sky data · awaiting first light

1:1 footprint

7.5′ across

0 sources drawn

Band

Stretch

Gain 1.00×

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About this field

A violent star-forming region where infrared imaging cuts through dust that hides newborn stars completely at visible wavelengths.

Program
Guest Observer
Program ID
GO-1155
Field centre RA
10h45m03.60s
Field centre Dec
−59°41′02.4″
Galactic latitude
-0.6°
Field character
nebula

Product status

A pre-flight simulation product. Generated on the ground to build and test the calibration pipeline before launch — useful for developing analysis code, but it is synthetic, not sky.

Exposure

Exposure ID
sim_carina_f087_035
Instrument
WFI
Detector
SCA07
Optical element
F087
Data level
L2
Integration
3m 16s
Resultants
16
Mid-exposure
28 May 2026, 10:09 UTC
Mission day
L+-93.88
Product size
191 MB
5σ point-source depth
27.72 AB

Pointing

RA (J2000)
10h44m47.57s
Dec (J2000)
−59°39′30.0″
RA (deg)
161.198211
Dec (deg)
-59.658331
Footprint
0.125° on a side
Pixel scale
0.11″/px

Band

F0870.869 µm pivot
0.4 µmvisible → near-infrared2.4 µm

z-band analogue, used heavily for photometric redshifts.

Access

Roman products are distributed through MAST at STScI. Files follow the naming convention below; nothing is downloadable from this site.

sim_carina_f087_035_l2.asdf

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The image above is procedurally generated. Source positions, colours and crowding are derived from the field's galactic latitude and character and from the band's pivot wavelength, and every exposure of a field draws the same sky so dithers line up — but none of it is data from the telescope.