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We present Version 1.0 of the NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) ultraviolet variability catalog (GUVV) that contains information on 84 time-variable and transient sources gained with simultaneous near and far ultraviolet photometric…

We present the second Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Ultraviolet Variability (GUVV-2) Catalog that contains information on 410 newly discovered time-variable sources gained through simultaneous near (NUV 1750-2750A) and far (FUV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonathan M. Wheatley , Barry Y. Welsh , Stanley E. Browne

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…

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) imaged the sky in the Ultraviolet (UV) for almost a decade, delivering the first sky surveys at these wavelengths. Its database contains far-UV (FUV, $\lambda$$_{eff}$ $\sim$ 1528\AA) and near-UV (NUV,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Luciana Bianchi

The variability of quasars across multiple wavelengths is a useful probe of physical conditions in active galactic nuclei. In particular, variable accretion rates, instabilities, and reverberation effects in the accretion disk of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-13 Chengcheng Xin , Maria Charisi , Zoltán Haiman , David Schiminovich

The ultraviolet (UV) light from a host star influences a planet's atmospheric photochemistry and will affect interpretations of exoplanetary spectra from future missions like the James Webb Space Telescope. These effects will be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 Brittany E. Miles , Evgenya L. Shkolnik

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 present an analysis of the broadband UV/optical properties of z<3.4 quasars matched in the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) General Data Release 1 (GR1) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 3 (SDSS DR3). Of the 6371 DR3 quasars…

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

We present GALEX near ultraviolet (NUV:1750 - 2750A) and far ultraviolet (FUV: 1350 - 1750A) imaging observations of two 1.2 degree diameter fields in the Hyades and Pleiades open clusters in order to detect possible UV variability of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 S. E. Browne , B. Y. Welsh , J. M. Wheatley

Solar-type members of the rich, nearly Solar-age and Solar-metallicity M67 open cluster are systematically investigated for ultraviolet variability. We utilize archival Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) data which features several imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Carl Melis , Ekamjot Kaire

The NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite has obtained simultaneous near and far ultraviolet light curves of the ROTSE-I Catalog RR Lyrae ab-type variable star J143753.84+345924.8. A series of 38 GALEX Deep Imaging Survey…

We present the preliminary results from implementing a new software tool that enables inspection of time-tagged photon data for the astronomical sources contained within individual GALEX ultraviolet images of the sky. We have inspected the…

We study the small population of z>2.7 quasars detected by GALEX, whose far-UV emission is not extinguished by intervening HI Lyman limit systems. These quasars are of particular importance to detect intergalactic HeII absorption along…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Gábor Worseck , J. Xavier Prochaska

We present the ultraviolet (UV) imaging observation of planetary nebulae (PNe) using archival data of Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). We found 358 PNe detected by GALEX in near-UV (NUV). We have compiled a catalogue of 108 extended PNe…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Ananta C. Pradhan , Swayamtrupta Panda , Mudumba Parthasarathy , Jayant Murthy , Devendra K. Ojha

Using the far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV) photometry from the NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), we searched for evidence of increased stellar activity due to tidal and/or magnetic star-planet interactions (SPI) in the 272 of known FGK…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Evgenya L. Shkolnik

We present ultraviolet photometry (NUV band, 180--280 nm) of 405 asteroids observed serendipitously by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) from 2003--2012. All asteroids in this sample were detected by GALEX at least twice. Unambiguous…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Adam Waszczak , Eran O. Ofek , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

We present the ultraviolet magnitudes for over three million stars in the LAMOST survey, in which 2,202,116 stars are detected by $GALEX$. For 889,235 undetected stars, we develop a method to estimate their upper limit magnitudes. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , James Wicker , Song Wang , JinCheng Guo , YuXiang Qin , Lin He , JianLing Wang , Yue Wu , YiQiao Dong , Yong Zhang , Yonghui Hou , Yuefei Wang , Zihuang Cao

We have performed a wide-area ultraviolet (UV) imaging survey using the GALaxy Evolution eXplorer (GALEX) to search for bright, point-like UV sources behind M31's extended halo. Our survey consisted of 46 pointings covering an effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrew Fittingoff , J. Xavier Prochaska , Jasonjot S. Kalirai , Jay Strader , Puragra Guhathakurta , Kyle F. Kaplan

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
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