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NUV Star Catalogue from the Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope Survey. First Release

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2016-11-09 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We present a star catalogue extracted from the Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope (LUT) survey program. LUT's observable sky area is a circular belt around the Moon's north pole, and the survey program covers a preferred area for about 2400 deg2^2 which includes a region of the Galactic plane. The data is processed with an automatic pipeline which copes with stray light contamination, artificial sources, cosmic rays, flat field calibration, photometry and so on. In the first release version, the catalogue provides high confidence sources which have been cross-identified with Tycho-2 catalogue. All the sources have signal-to-noise ratio larger than 5, and the corresponding magnitude limit is typically 14.4 mag, which can be deeper as ~16 mag if the stray light contamination is in the lowest level. A total number of 86,467 stars are recorded in the catalogue. The full catalogue in electronic form is available on line.

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@article{arxiv.1607.00115,
  title  = {NUV Star Catalogue from the Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope Survey. First Release},
  author = {Xian-Min Meng and Xu-Hui Han and Jian-Yan Wei and Jing Wang and Li Cao and Yu-Lei Qiu and Chao Wu and Jin-Song Deng and Hong-Bo Cai and Li-Ping Xin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00115},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

13 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA)