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In this paper we introduce the deepest and most extensive ultraviolet extragalactic source catalogs of the Virgo Cluster area to date. Archival and targeted GALEX imaging is compiled and combined to provide the deepest possible coverage…

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) has performed the first surveys of the sky in the Ultraviolet (UV). Its legacy is an unprecedented database with more than 200 million source measurements in far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV), as well as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Luciana Bianchi , Alberto Conti , Bernie Shiao

We measure NUV aperture magnitudes from {\sl GALEX} images for 258 ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) candidates drawn from the initial SMUDGes survey of $\sim 300$ square degrees surrounding, and including, the Coma galaxy cluster. For the vast…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-15 Pranjal RS , Dennis Zaritsky , Richard Donnerstein , Kristine Spekkens

We present analysis of the far ultraviolet (FUV) emission of sources in the central region of the Coma cluster (z=0.023) using the data taken by the UVIT aboard the multi-wavelength satellite mission AstroSat. We find a good correlation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Smriti Mahajan , Kulinder Pal Singh , Joseph E. Postma , Kala G. Pradeep , Koshy George , Patrick Côté

We have used deep GALEX observations at the infall region of the Coma cluster to measure the faintest UV luminosity functions (LFs) presented for a rich galaxy cluster thus far. The Coma UV LFs are measured to M_UV = -10.5 in the GALEX FUV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 D. M. Hammer , A. E. Hornschemeier , S. Salim , R. Smith , L. Jenkins , B. Mobasher , N. Miller , H. Ferguson

We present estimates of the GALEX NUV and FUV luminosity functions (LFs) of the Coma cluster, over a total area of ~9 deg^2 (~25 Mpc^2), i.e. from the cluster center to the virial radius. Our analysis represents the widest and deepest UV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Cortese , G. Gavazzi , A. Boselli

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) imaged the sky in two Ultraviolet (UV) bands, far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV), delivering the first comprehensive sky surveys at these wavelengths. The GALEX database contains FUV and NUV images,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Luciana Bianchi , Bernard Shiao , David Thilker

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) has produced the largest photometric catalogue of ultraviolet (UV) sources. As such, it has defined the new standard bands for UV photometry: the near UV band (NUV) and the far UV band (FUV). However,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-30 Leire Beitia-Antero , Ana I. Gomez de Castro

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite performed the first and only large-area UV survey, which in tandem with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has facilitated modeling of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of low-redshift…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-27 Chandler Osborne , Samir Salim , Mederic Boquien , Mark Dickinson , Stephane Arnouts

The Coma supercluster (100 Mpc) offers an unprecedented contiguous range of environments in the nearby Universe. In this paper we present a catalogue of spectroscopically confirmed galaxies in the Coma supercluster detected in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Smriti Mahajan , Ankit Singh , Devika Shobhana

Using archival observations recorded over a 5+ year timeframe with the NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite, we present a study of the ultraviolet (UV) variability of 4360 quasars of redshifts up to z=2.5 that have optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Barry Y. Welsh , Jonathan M. Wheatley , James D. Neill

The ELAIS S1 field was observed by GALEX in both its Wide Spectroscopic and Deep Imaging Survey modes. This field was previously observed by the Infrared Space Observatory and we made use of the catalogue of multi-wavelength data published…

We present deep 1.4GHz Very Large Array (VLA) radio continuum observations of two ~half square degree fields in the Coma cluster of galaxies. The two fields, "Coma 1" and "Coma 3," correspond to the cluster core and southwest infall region…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Neal A. Miller , Ann E. Hornschemeier , Bahram Mobasher

The Galaxy Evolution Exporer (GALEX) has performed unprecedented imaging surveys of the Magellanic Clouds (MC) and their surrounding areas including the Magellanic Bridge (MB) in near-UV (NUV, 1771-2831\AA) and far-UV (FUV, 1344-1786\AA)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-29 Raymond Simons , David Thilker , Luciana Bianchi , Ted Wyder

We have obtained a mosaic of CCD images of the Coma cluster in the V-band covering a region of approximately 0.4 degrees$^2$ around both central cluster galaxies NGC 4889 and NGC 4874. An additional frame of $\sim$ 90 arcmin$^2$ was taken…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. Lobo , A. Biviano , F. Durret , D. Gerbal , O. Le Fèvre , A. Mazure , E. Slezak

We discuss the UV, optical, and IR properties of the SDSS sources detected by GALEX as part of its All-sky Imaging Survey Early Release Observations. Virtually all of the GALEX sources in the overlap region are detected by SDSS. GALEX…

The ultraviolet catalog of nearby galaxies made by \citet{Gil07} presents the integrated photometry and surface brightness profiles for 1034 nearby galaxies observed by \textit{Galaxy Evolution Explorer} (\textit{GALEX}). We provide an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-16 Yu Bai , Hu Zou , JiFeng Liu , Song Wang

We present the selection and classification of over a thousand ultraviolet (UV) variable sources discovered in ~ 40 deg^2 of GALEX Time Domain Survey (TDS) NUV images observed with a cadence of 2 days and a baseline of observations of ~ 3…

Number Counts of galaxies in two GALEX bands (FUV: 1530A and NUV: 2310A, both in AB magnitudes) are reported. They provide for the first time in the literature homogeneously calibrated number counts of UV galaxies covering continuously a…

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