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| # Detailed Description of J/ApJS/96/461 : Far-UV Point Sources from FAUST (Bowyer+ 1995) |

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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