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The Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard India's first dedicated multiwavelength satellite \textit{AstroSat} observed a significant fraction of the sky in the ultraviolet with a spatial resolution of 1.4\arcsec. We present a…

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The Local Ultraviolet to Infrared Treasury (LUVIT) is a Hubble Space Telescope program that combines newly acquired data in the near ultraviolet (NUV), optical, and near infrared (NIR) with archival optical and NIR imaging to produce…

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 take advantage of the Gaia data release 2 to present 275 and 1,774 ultraviolet luminous stars in the FUV and the NUV. These stars are 5$\sigma$ exceeding the centers of the reference frame that is built with over one million UV stars in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-16 Yu Bai , JiFeng Liu , Song Wang

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…

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 the first comprehensive source catalog (UVIT DR1) of ultraviolet (UV) photometry in four far-UV (FUV $\sim$1300$-$1800 \AA) and five near-UV (NUV $\sim$2000$-$3000 \AA) filters of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 Sonika Piridi , Ranjan Kumar , Divya Pandey , Ananta C. Pradhan

The structure of our Galaxy has been studied from ultraviolet (UV) star counts obtained with the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board the {\em AstroSat} satellite, in Far-UV (FUV) and Near-UV (NUV) bands. The F154W (BaF2) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-23 Ranjan Kumar , Ananta C. Pradhan , Devendra K. Ojha , Sonika Piridi , Tapas Baug , S. K. Ghosh

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

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…

We report observations of a deep near-ultraviolet (NUV) survey of the Kepler field made in 2012 with the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Complete All-Sky UV Survey Extension (CAUSE). The GALEX-CAUSE Kepler survey (GCK) covers 104 square…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Manuel Olmedo , James Lloyd , Eric E. Mamajek , Miguel Chávez , Emanuele Bertone , D. Christopher Martin , James D. Neill

We present far-ultraviolet (FUV) images and catalogs from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys/Solar Blind Channel (ACS/SBC) F150LP (about 1600 Angstrom) of three extragalactic fields: GOODS-S, GOODS-N, and COSMOS.…

Three fields in the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud were observed by the Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) on board AstroSat, during 31 December 2017 and 01 January 2018. The observations were carried out on a total of seven…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 Ashish Devaraj , Prajwel Joseph , C. S. Stalin , Shyam N. Tandon , Swarna K. Ghosh

We present deep UV imaging observations of the Great Observatories Origins Survey Northern (GOODS-N) field with AstroSat/UVIT (AstroSat UV Deep Field north - AUDFn), using one far-UV (F154W, 34.0 kilosec) and two near-UV filters (N242W,…

We describe the data processing pipeline developed to reduce the pointing observation data of Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope (LUT), which belongs to the Chang'e-3 mission of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. The pointing observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-19 Xian-Min Meng , Li Cao , Yu-Lei Qiu , Chao Wu , Jing Wang , Xu-Hui Han , Jin-Song Deng , Li-Ping Xin , Hong-Bo Cai , Jian-Yan Wei

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

We reported the photometric calibration of Lunar-based Ultraviolet telescope (LUT), the first robotic astronomical telescope working on the lunar surface, for its first six months of operation on the lunar surface. Two spectral datasets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-15 J. Wang , L. Cao , X. M. Meng , H. B. Cai , J. S. Deng , X. H. Han , Y. L. Qiu , F. Wang , S. Wang , W. B. Wen , C. Wu , J. Y. Wei , J. Y. Hu

An ultraviolet survey of M31 has been carried out during 2017-23 with the UVIT instrument onboard the AstroSat Observatory. Here we present far and near ultraviolet (FUV and NUV) observations from the M31 UVIT survey, which covers a sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-14 Denis Leahy , Sujith Ranasinghe , Saptadwipa Mitra , Kripansh Rawal

The catalog from the first high resolution U-band image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 through the F300W filter, is presented. We detect 96 U-band objects and compare and combine this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Elysse N. Voyer , Duilia F. de Mello , Brian Siana , Jonathan P. Gardner , Cori Quirk , Harry I. Teplitz

We present the first results of an near-ultraviolet (NUV) survey of RR Lyrae stars from the Ultraviolet Optical Telescope (UVOT) aboard the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission. It is well-established that RR Lyrae have large amplitudes in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Michael H. Siegel , Blair L. Porterfield , Benjamin G. Balzer , Lea M. Z. Hagen
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