SAGE

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SAGE

(Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution) (survey of gas and dust in the Magellanic Clouds)

SAGE (for Surveying the Agents of Galaxy Evolution) was a survey consisting of Spitzer and Herschel imaging of the Magellanic Clouds, aimed at studying galaxy evolution and star formation. Portions of SAGE:

SAGE-LMC - Large Magellanic Cloud.
SAGE-SMC - Small Magellanic Cloud.
SAGE-Spec - spectroscopic survey.
30 Dor - another spectroscopic survey, specific to the LMC.
HERITAGE - "Herschel Inventory of the Agents of Galaxy Evolution".

(survey,LMC,SMC,past) Further reading:
https://www.stsci.edu/~mboyer/Science/MCs/
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/SPITZER/SAGE/
https://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/Herschel/HERITAGE/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AJ....132.2268M/abstract

Prefix	Example
SAGE	SAGE1CJ053634.78-722658.5