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Detailed Description of J/ApJS/96/461 : Far-UV Point Sources from FAUST (Bowyer+ 1995)
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Note : this is the description file of the original catalog.
This HTML page corresponds well to the original description, but some minor
changes in the format may have been introduced in the FITS output
files in order to allow for arithmetic operations on quantities
such as coordinates and times. h:m:s and d:m:s units are normally
converted into degrees, and YYYY-MM-DD into julian days.
Similarly, some slight changes may have been introduced in the
units; the value given in the HTML files supersedes the value indicated in the ReadMe
file for this catalogue.
J/ApJS/96/461 Far-UV Point Sources from FAUST (Bowyer+ 1995)
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A Catalog of Far-Ultraviolet Point Sources Detected with the
FAUST Telescope on ATLAS-1
Bowyer S., Sasseen T.P., Wu X., Lampton M.
<Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser. 96, 461 (1995)>
=1995ApJS...96..461B
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ADC_Keywords: Photometry, ultraviolet ; Spectrophotometry
Mission_Name: FAUST
Keywords: catalogs - techniques: photometric - ultraviolet: galaxies -
ultraviolet: stars
Abstract:
We list 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 4698 Galactic and extragalactic
objects detected in 22 wide-field images of the sky. At the locations
surveyed, this catalog reaches a limiting magnitude approximately a
factor of 10 fainter than the previous UV all-sky survey, TD1. The
catalog limit is approximately 1x10-14ergs/s/cm^26/A, although it is
not complete to this level. We list for each object the position, FUV
flux, the error in flux, and where possible an identification from
catalogs of nearby stars and galaxies. These catalogs include the
Michigan HD (MHD) and HD, SAO, the HIPPARCOS Input Catalog, the
Position and Proper Motion Catalog, the TD1 Catalog, the McCook and
Sion Catalog of white dwarf stars, and the RC3 Catalog of Galaxies. We
identify 2239 FAUST sources with objects in the stellar catalogs and
172 with galaxies in the RC3 catalog. We estimate the number of
sources with incorrect identifications to be less than 2%.
FAUST is a wide-field telescope (7.6° diameter) designed to image
diffuse and point sources in the wavelength range 140-180nm. The
experiment, the mission and the data are described in a previous
paper by Bowyer et al., 1993ApJ...415..875B .
File Summary:
FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
× 80 . This file
× ReadMe 80 . This file
× table2.dat 109 4831 List of FAUST sources
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
1- 4 I4 --- FAUST Entry in FAUST catalog
5- 7 I3 h RAh Right ascension (1950)
8- 10 I3 min RAm Right ascension (1950)
11- 13 I3 s RAs Right ascension (1950)
15 A1 --- DE- Declination sign
16- 17 I2 deg DEd Declination (1950)
18- 22 F5.1 arcmin DEm Declination (1950)
23- 30 E8.1 10ct/s/cm2/nm Flux Flux (photons/s/cm2/Angstroem)
31- 38 E8.1 10ct/s/cm2/nm e_Flux Uncertainty in flux
39- 42 F4.1 arcmin Dist *? Distance to catalog object
43- 47 F5.1 mag Vmag *? V magnitude of star
49- 50 A2 --- Sp *Spectral type
51- 59 A9 --- HD HD or MHD catalog number III/135
61- 66 I6 --- HIC ? Hipparcos Input Catalog I/196
68- 73 I6 --- PPM *? PPM Catalog number <I/146> <I/193>
75- 86 A12 --- SAO SAO Catalog number I/131 or
McCook & Sion Catalog number
III/129 (shown in parentheses)
88- 92 I5 --- TD1 *? TD1 Catalog number <II/59>
93- 96 F4.1 arcmin GalDist ? Distance to galaxy, if present
97-109 A13 --- GalName Galaxy name
Note on Dist, Vmag, Sp:
Quantities are taken from the MHD catalog if a star is present.
If an MHD star is not present, these quantities are taken (in
order of preference) from the HIC, PPM, SAO, and HD catalogs.
Note on PPM:
The PPM numbers in the range 500000-700000 are from the preliminary
PPM South catalog, and should NOT be used for the naming of stars.
Note on TD1:
These numbers do not agree with those from the public TD1 catalog
II/59, and should NOT be used for the naming of stars.
Origin: AAS CD-ROM series, Volume 4, 1995 Lee Brotzman [ADS] 08-May-95
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(End) [CDS] 12-Jul-1995