A 24 Micron Point Source Catalog of the Galactic Plane from
  Spitzer/MIPSGAL
  In this contribution, we describe the applied methods to construct a 24
micron based point source catalog derived from the image data of the MIPSGAL 24
micron Galactic Plane Survey and the corresponding data products. The high
quality catalog product contains 933,818 sources, with a total of 1,353,228 in
the full archive catalog. The source tables include positional and photometric
informa- tion derived from the 24 micron images, source quality and confusion
flags and coun- terpart photometry from matched 2MASS, GLIMPSE, and WISE point
sources. Completeness decay data cubes are constructed at 1 arcminute angular
resolution that describe the varying background levels over the MIPSGAL field
and the ability to extract sources of a given magnitude from this background.
The completeness decay cubes are included in the set of data products. We
present the results of our efforts to verify the astrometric and photometric
calibration of the catalog, and present several analyses of minor anomalies in
these measurements to justify adopted mitigation strategies.
