HST Ultraviolet Atlas of Nearby Galaxies

DOI

A pictorial atlas of UV (2300 Å) images, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Faint Object Camera, of the central 22''× 22'' of 110 galaxies (Maoz, Filippenko, Ho, Macchetto, Rix, & Schneider 1996). The observed galaxies are an unbiased selection constituting about one half of a complete sample of all large (D>6 arcmin) and nearby (V< 2000 km/s ) galaxies. This is the first extensive UV imaging survey of normal galaxies. The data are useful for studying star formation, low-level nuclear activity, and UV emission by evolved stellar populations in galaxies. At the HST resolution (~ 0.05''), the images display an assortment of morphologies and UV brightnesses. These include bright nuclear point sources, compact young star clusters scattered in the field or arranged in circumnuclear rings, centrally-peaked diffuse light distributions, and galaxies with weak or undetected UV emission. We measure the integrated ~2300 Å flux in each image, and classify the UV morphology.

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.17909/T9NP4X
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/mast.stsci/siap/hst.maoz_atlas
Related Identifier http://archive.stsci.edu/prepds/maoz/index.html
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://mast.stsci/siap/hst.maoz_atlas
Provenance
Creator STScI
Instrument FOC
Publisher Space Telescope Science Institute Archive
Publication Year 2004
OpenAccess true
Contact Archive Branch, STScI <archive(at)stsci.edu>
Representation
Resource Type Other; AstroObjects
Version 1.0
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics