FAUST ivo://nasa.heasarc/faust NASA/GSFC HEASARC Bowyer, Sasseen, Wu, Lampton 2026-10-09 NASA/GSFC HEASARC help desk heasarc-vo at athena.gsfc.nasa.gov Survey Source This catalog contains a list of the photometric measurements of point sources made by the Far Ultraviolet Space Telescope (FAUST) when it flew on the ATLAS-1 space shuttle mission. The list contains 4660 galactic and extragalactic objects detected in 22 wide-field images of the sky (note that the abstract of the published catalog states that it contains 4698 sources: the reason for this discrepancy is not known to the HEASARC). At the locations surveyed, this catalog reaches a limiting magnitude that is approximately a factor of 10 fainter than the previous UV all-sky survey, TD1. The catalog limit is approximately 1x10<sup>-14</sup> ergs/s/cm<sup>2</sup>/Angstrom, although it is not complete to this level. Listed for each object is the position, Far-UV (FUV) flux, the error in this flux, and, where possible, an identification from catalogs of nearby stars and galaxies. These catalogs include the Michigan HD (MHD) and HD Catalogs, the SAO Catalog, the HIPPARCOS Input Catalog (HIC), the Position and Proper Motion (PPM) Catalog, the TD1 Catalog, the McCook and Sion Catalog of white dwarf stars, and the RC3 Catalog of Galaxies. 2239 FAUST sources are identified with objects in the stellar catalogs and 172 with galaxies in the RC3 catalog. The number of sources with incorrect identifications is estimated to be less than 2%. Of the 4660 FUV sources in this catalog, 161 have multiple stellar and/or galaxy counterparts (155 sources have 2 possible counterparts, 4 sources have 3 possible counterparts, 1 source has 4 possible counterparts, and 1 source has 6 possible counterparts), with the 4499 remaining FUV sources having 0 or 1 stellar and/or galaxy counterparts. Hence, there are a grand total of 4831 = (4499 + 155x2 + 4x3 + 1x4 + 1x6) entries in this database, since each entry corresponds to a source/counterpart combination. The HEASARC added a parameter 'multiple_ID' to allow the user to identify sources with multiple possible counterparts. FAUST Sources with multiple counterparts thus have multiple entries in this database, and can be recognized by having multiple_id values greater than 1 (and differing information in the parameter fields that contain the properties of the stellar and/or galaxy counterparts). This catalog was created at the HEASARC in September 1998 based on CDS/ADC Catalog J/ApJS/96/461. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC . 1995ApJS...96..461B https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/faust.html Catalog Research served-by HEASARC TAP https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=faust& GET text/xml 180 99999 true 22.9468 -77.8018 0.0666666666666667 https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/getvotable.pl?name=faust GET text/xml https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_faust&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1 FAUST 0.0666666666666667 UV public faust Faust Far-UV Point Source Catalog name Designation of FAUST Source meta.id;meta.main char nullable multiple_id Multiple Counterpart ID short nullable ra Right Ascension degree pos.eq.ra;meta.main double nullable dec Declination degree pos.eq.dec;meta.main double nullable flux_1650a 1650-Angstrom Flux photon/s/cm^2/Angstrom phot.flux;em.UV double nullable flux_1650a_error Uncertainty in 1650A Flux photon/s/cm^2/Angstrom stat.error;phot.flux;em.UV double nullable vmag V Magnitude of Star mag phot.mag;em.opt.V float nullable spect_type Spectral Type of Star src.spType char nullable star_offset Star Angular Offset (arcmin) arcmin float nullable sequence_number FAUST Sequence Number meta.code;obs short nullable sao SAO Catalog Number meta.id char nullable galaxy_offset Galaxy Angular Offset (arcmin) arcmin float nullable hic Hipparcos Input Catalog Number meta.id int nullable class Browse Object Classification src.class short nullable hd HD or MHD Catalog Number meta.id char nullable bii Galactic Latitude degree pos.galactic.lat double nullable lii Galactic Longitude degree pos.galactic.lon double nullable ppm PPM Catalog Number meta.id int nullable td1 TD1 Catalog Number meta.id int nullable galaxy_name Galaxy Designation meta.id char nullable "__x_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__y_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__z_ra_dec" System unit vector column double nullable "__row" System index column char nullable