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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 ================================================================================ (End) [CDS] 12-Jul-1995