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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

This optical catalogue combines the all-sky USNO-B1.0/A1.0 and most-sky APM catalogues, plus overlays of SDSS optical data, into a single all-sky map presented in a sparse binary format which is easily downloaded at 9Gb zipped. Total count…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Eric Wim Flesch

During the operational life of the Italian/Dutch X-ray satellite (1996-2002), BeppoSAX, its two Wide Field Cameras performed observations that covered the full sky at different epochs. Although the majority of analysis performed on BeppoSAX…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 F. Capitanio , A. J. Bird , M. Fiocchi , S. Scaringi , P. Ubertini

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Xian-Min Meng , Xu-Hui Han , Jian-Yan Wei , Jing Wang , Li Cao , Yu-Lei Qiu , Chao Wu , Jin-Song Deng , Hong-Bo Cai , Li-Ping Xin

We present the first source catalog of the Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC) of the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) mission on the International Space Station, using the 45-month data from 2010 August to 2014 April in 0.7--7.0~keV bands.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Hiroshi Tomida , Daiki Uchida , Hiroshi Tsunemi , Ritsuko Imatani , Masashi Kimura , Satoshi Nakahira , Takanori Hanayama , Koshiro Yoshidome

XMM-Newton has observed the X-ray sky since early 2000. The XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre Consortium has published catalogues of X-ray and ultraviolet sources found serendipitously in the individual observations. This series is now…

We present the Brera Multi-scale Wavelet Chandra (BMW-Chandra) source catalogue drawn from essentially all Chandra ACIS-I pointed observations with an exposure time in excess of 10ks public as of March 2003 (136 observations). Using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-04-14 P. Romano , S. Campana , R. P. Mignani , A. Moretti , M. R. Panzera , G. Tagliaferri , M. Mottini

We present the AstroSat UV Deep Field South (AUDFs), an imaging survey using the wide-field Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on board AstroSat. AUDFs covers $\sim 236$ arcmin$^{2}$ of the sky area, including the Great Observatories Origins…

We present the Living Swift-XRT Point Source catalogue (LSXPS) and real-time transient detector. This system allows us for the first time to carry out low-latency searches for new transient X-ray events fainter than those available to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 P. A. Evans , K. L. Page , A. P. Bearmore , R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris , J. P. Osborne , S. Campana , J. A. Kennea , S. B. Cenko

The Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey has performed a multi-epoch near-infrared imaging of the inner Galactic plane. High-fidelity photometric catalogs are needed to utilize the data. We aim at producing a deep,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Miaomiao Zhang , Jouni Kainulainen

Variable sources probe a wide range of astrophysical phenomena. We present a catalog of over ten million variable source candidates found in Data Release 1 (DR1) of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). We perform a periodicity search up to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Eran O. Ofek , Maayane Soumagnac , Guy Nir , Avishay Gal-Yam , Peter Nugent , Frank Masci , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni

We have compiled a catalog of optically-selected quasars with simultaneous observations in UV/optical and X-ray bands by the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer. Objects in this catalog are identified by matching the Swift pointings with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jian Wu , Daniel Vanden Berk , Dirk Grupe , Scott Koch , Jonathan Gelbord , Donald P. Schneider , Caryl Gronwall , Sarah Wesolowski , Blair L. Porterfield

In November 2020, the Swift team announced a major update to the calibration of the UltraViolet and Optical Telescope (UVOT) data to correct for the gradual loss of sensitivity over time. Beginning in roughly 2015, the correction affected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Jason T. Hinkle , Benjamin J. Shappee , Michael A. Tucker

We present the spectroscopic redshift catalog from a wide-field survey of the fields of 28 galaxy-mass strong gravitational lenses. We discuss the acquisition and reduction of the survey data, collected over 40 nights of 6.5m MMT and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Ivelina Momcheva , Kurtis A. Williams , Richard J. Cool , Charles R. Keeton , Ann I. Zabludoff

Using the Multimission Archives at Space Telescope (MAST), we have extracted spectra and determined continuum light curves for 175 Seyfert Galaxies that have been observed with the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) and the Faint…

We searched for X-ray serendipitous sources in over 370 Swift-XRT fields centered on gamma ray bursts detected between 2004 and 2008 and observed with total exposures ranging from 10 ks to over 1 Ms. This defines the Swift Serendipitous…

We present a multi-wavelength photometric catalog in the COSMOS field as part of the observations by the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS). The catalog is based on Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field…

Aims: Pointed observations with XMM-Newton provide the basis for creating catalogues of X-ray sources detected serendipitously in each field. This paper describes the creation and characteristics of the 2XMM catalogue. Methods: The 2XMM…

The identification and analysis of different variable sources is a hot issue in astrophysical research. The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) spectroscopic survey has accumulated massive spectral data but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Tingting Xu , Chao Liu , Feng Wang , Weirong Huang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Zhong Cao

Most massive stars will interact with a binary companion during their lifetimes. These interactions can remove the hydrogen-rich envelope, producing intermediate-mass ($\sim$2-8 M$_\odot$) and helium-rich stars. These "stripped stars" are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Bethany Ludwig , Maria R. Drout , Ylva Gotberg , Dustin Lang , Alex Laroche