A first catalogue of automatically selected UV-excess sources from the UVEX survey
Abstract
We present the first catalogue of point-source UV-excess sources selected from the UVEX survey. UVEX images the Northern Galactic Plane in the U, g, r and HeI5875 bands in the Galactic latitude range -5deg<b<+5deg. Through an automated algorithm, which works on a field-to-field basis, we select blue UV-excess sources in 211 square degrees from the (U-g) vs. (g-r) colour-colour diagram and the g vs. (U-g) and g vs. (g-r) colour-magnitude diagrams. The UV-excess catalogue covers the magnituderange 14<g<22.5, contains 2170 sources and consists of a mix of white dwarfs, post-common-envelope objects, interacting binaries, quasars and AGN. Two other samples of outliers were found during the selection: i) a 'subdwarf' sample, consisting of no less than 9872 candidate metal-poor stars or lightly reddened main-sequence stars, and ii) a 'purple' sample consisting of 803 objects, most likely a mix of reddened late M-giants, T Tauri stars, planetary nebulae, symbiotic stars and carbon stars. Cross-matching the selected UV-excess catalogue with other catalogues aids with the first classification of the different populations and shows that more than 99% of our selected sources are unidentified sources.
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@article{arxiv.1111.0440,
title = {A first catalogue of automatically selected UV-excess sources from the UVEX survey},
author = {Kars Verbeek and Eelco de Groot and Paul J. Groot and Simone Scaringi and Janet Drew and Robert Greimel and Mike Irwin and Eduardo Gonzalez-Solares and Boris T. Gaensicke and Jorge Casares and Jesus M. Corral-Santana and Niall Deacon and Danny Steeghs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0440},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
accepted for publication in MNRAS, 24 pages, 17 figures