Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10694438 | Advances in Space Research | 2014 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
The density of UV sources is quite high in many areas of the LMC and SMC. Crowding limits the quality of source detection and photometry from the standard mission pipeline processing. We performed custom-photometry of the GALEX data in the MC survey region (<15° from the LMC, <10° from the SMC). After merging multiple detections of sources in overlapping images, the resulting catalog we have produced for the LMC contains nearly six million unique NUV point sources within 15° and is briefly presented herein. This paper provides a first look at the GALEX MC survey and highlights some of the science investigations that the entire catalog and imaging dataset will make possible.
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Authors
Raymond Simons, David Thilker, Luciana Bianchi, Ted Wyder,