HST Ultraviolet Atlas of Nearby Galaxies Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. STScI
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    Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Abstract

A pictorial atlas of UV (2300 Å) images, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Faint Object Camera, of the central 22''× 22'' of 110 galaxies (Maoz, Filippenko, Ho, Macchetto, Rix, & Schneider 1996). The observed galaxies are an unbiased selection constituting about one half of a complete sample of all large (D>6 arcmin) and nearby (V< 2000 km/s ) galaxies. This is the first extensive UV imaging survey of normal galaxies. The data are useful for studying star formation, low-level nuclear activity, and UV emission by evolved stellar populations in galaxies. At the HST resolution (~ 0.05''), the images display an assortment of morphologies and UV brightnesses. These include bright nuclear point sources, compact young star clusters scattered in the field or arranged in circumnuclear rings, centrally-peaked diffuse light distributions, and galaxies with weak or undetected UV emission. We measure the integrated ~2300 Å flux in each image, and classify the UV morphology.

Keywords
  1. Ultraviolet Astronomy
See also HTML
http://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/maoz/index.html
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://mast.stsci/siap/hst.maoz_atlas
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.17909/T9NP4X

Access

IVOA Simple Image Search SIAP
For use with a VO-enabled image processor (e.g., Aladin).
http://archive.stsci.edu/siap/search.php?id=maoz_atlas&

History

2004-11-22T12:22:53Z
Resource record created

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Archive Branch, STScI
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