The First Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Source Catalog
Abstract
The Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) has conducted an all-sky survey to locate and identify point sources of emission in four extreme ultraviolet wavelength bands centered at ~100, 200, 400, and 600A. A companion deep survey of a strip along half the ecliptic plane was simultaneously conducted. In this catalog we report the sources found in these surveys using rigorously defined criteria uniformly applied to the data set. These are the first surveys to be made in the three longer wavelength bands, and a substantial number of sources were detected in these bands. We present a number of statistical diagnostics of the surveys, including their source counts, their sensitivities, and their positional error distributions. We provide a separate list of those sources reported in the EUVE Bright Source List which did not meet our criteria for inclusion in our primary list. We also provide improved count rate and position estimates for a majority of these sources based on the improved methodology used in this paper. In total, this catalog lists a total of 410 point sources, of which 372 have plausible optical ultraviolet, or X-ray identifications, which are also listed.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
- Pub Date:
- August 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1086/192068
- Bibcode:
- 1994ApJS...93..569B
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Catalogs;
- Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation;
- Sky Surveys (Astronomy);
- Stars;
- Ultraviolet Astronomy;
- White Dwarf Stars;
- Astronomical Spectroscopy;
- Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer Satellite;
- Luminous Intensity;
- Telemetry;
- Ultraviolet Spectroscopy;
- Wavelengths;
- Space Radiation;
- CATALOGS;
- ULTRAVIOLET: STARS