Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope Near-UV Bright Objects Catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors

1. Smith et al.

Published by

NASA/GSFC HEASARC

Abstract

      The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) Near-UV Bright Objects Catalog is a photometric catalog of 2244 objects detected by the UIT in the near-ultraviolet (NUV; 1650A<lambda<2900A) during the Astro-1 Space Shuttle mission. Sources in the catalog are as faint as near-UV magnitude m_nuv of about 18.8, or near-UV flux f_nuv ~ 1.1x10^-16ergs/s/cm^2/A, but the survey is not complete to this level. Optical catalogs were used to cross identify sources and derive near-UV to Johnson V colors. A majority of the objects (88%) do indeed have proposed optical identifications from catalogs, and most are stars. The authors' purpose in creating the catalog was to form a database useful for identifying very blue objects and for performing Galactic UV stellar population studies. This database was created by the HEASARC in November 2000 based on a machine-readable version obtained from the CDS (Catalog J/ApJS/104/287). This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
    

Keywords

1. Survey Source

Bibliographic source

1996ApJS..104..287S

See also HTML

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/all/uit.html

IVOA Identifier IVOID

ivo://nasa.heasarc/uit

Access

IVOA Cone Search SCS

For use with a cone search client (e.g., TOPCAT).
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/cone?showoffsets&table=uit&

IVOA Table Access TAP

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/xamin/vo/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).

Web browser access HTML

https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/W3Browse/w3query.pl?tablehead=name=heasarc_uit&Action=More+Options&Action=Parameter+Search&ConeAdd=1