The UKIDSS survey is the next generation infrared survey, a successor
to 2MASS. It will ultimately cover 7000 square degrees in the
northern sky at both high and low Galactic latitudes and goes about
three magnitudes deeper than 2MASS in the coverage area. Most data is
taken in the J, H and K bands. A Y band is available in some regions.
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UKIDSS is comprised of several distinct surveys in different regions of the
sky. Of primary interest to <i>SkyView</i> users (since they have the largest
sky coverage) are the Large Area Survey, the Galactic Plane Survey, and the
Galactic Clusters Survey. There are deep and ultadeep surveys which cover
much smaller fractions of the sky. The planned coverage for the UKIDSS
surveys may be seen at the <a href="http://wsa.roe.ac.uk/theSurveys.html">
UKIDSS survey page</a>. All UKIDSS data products are published by the Wide-Field
Astronomy Unit (WFAU) at the University of Edinburgh through the
<a href="http://wsa.roe.ac.uk/">WFCAM Science Archive (WSA)</a> which includes
more detailed coverage information for each data release.
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<i>SkyView</i> currently uses the DR11 data release. Many thanks to
the WSA team at WFAU for providing an interface to make all the latest
data easily accessed. Note that coverage is not uniform across the different bands so
that at a given point there might be H and K band data, but nothing in the J band. Provenance: UKIDSS Project. This is a service of NASA HEASARC.
The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope UIT was one of three ultraviolet telescopes on the ASTRO-1 mission flown on the space shuttle Columbia during 2-10 December 1990. The same three instruments were later flown on the space shuttle Endeavour from 3-17 March 1995, as part of the ASTRO-2 mission. Exposures were obtained on 70-mm photographic film in the 1200-3300 Å range using broadband filters and later digitized using a Perkin-Elmer microdensitometer. Image resolution was 3" over a 40' field of view. Overall, UIT-1 obtained 821 exposures of 66 targets, and UIT-2 obtained 758 images of 193 targets.
The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) was one of three ultraviolet telescopes on the ASTRO-1 mission flown on the Space Shuttle Columbia during the period of 2 - 10 December 1990. The same three instruments were later flown on the Space Shuttle Endeavour during 3 - 17 March 1995, as part of the ASTRO-2 mission. Exposures were obtained on 70-mm photographic film in the 1200-3300 Angstrom range using broadband filters and later digitized using a Perkin-Elmer microdensitometer. The image resolution was 3 arcseconds over a 40 arcminute field of view and images of targets as faint as 21st (ultraviolet) magnitude were recorded. Overall, the UIT-1 mission obtained 821 exposures of 66 targets (361 near-UV and 460 far-UV), and UIT-2 obtained 758 images of 193 targets (all far-UV), for a total of 1579 exposures. This table contains only 1481 rows, 777 UIT-1 exposures (347 near-UV and 430 far-UV) and 704 UIT-2 exposures (all far-UV), implying that 98 exposures are 'missing' from this table. This table was created by the HEASARC in April 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/VI/104">CDS Catalog VI/104</a> file uitlist.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope UIT was one of three ultraviolet telescopes on the ASTRO-1 mission flown on the space shuttle Columbia during 2-10 December 1990. The same three instruments were later flown on the space shuttle Endeavour from 3-17 March 1995, as part of the ASTRO-2 mission. Exposures were obtained on 70-mm photographic film in the 1200-3300 Å range using broadband filters and later digitized using a Perkin-Elmer microdensitometer. Image resolution was 3" over a 40' field of view. Overall, UIT-1 obtained 821 exposures of 66 targets, and UIT-2 obtained 758 images of 193 targets.
United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station
Short Name:
USNOFS
Date:
11 Apr 2007 08:52:38
Publisher:
US Naval Observatory
Description:
The USNO Flagstaff Station Image and Catalogue archive
provides access to digitized images of the major Schmidt photographic surveys of the sky (POSS-I, POSS-II, SERC-J, SERC-R, SERC-EJ, SERC-ER, AAO-R etc.) and to astrometric catalogues derived from these data, including USNO-A2, USNO-B1 and NOMAD. The site provides catalogue data, finding charts, image data and a merge of the three.
United States Naval Observatory, Flagstaff Station Naming Authority
Short Name:
USNOFS auth
Date:
11 Apr 2007 08:52:38
Publisher:
US Naval Observatory
Description:
The USNO Flagstaff Station Image and Catalogue archive
provides access to digitized images of the major Schmidt photographic surveys of the sky (POSS-I, POSS-II, SERC-J, SERC-R, SERC-EJ, SERC-ER, AAO-R etc.) and to astrometric catalogues derived from these data, including USNO-A2, USNO-B1 and NOMAD. The site provides catalogue data, finding charts, image data and a merge of the three.
The USNO-B1.0 Catalogue presents positions, proper motions, magnitudes in various optical passbands, and star/galaxy estimators for 1,045,175,762 objects derived from 3,648,832,040 separate observations. The data were taken from scans of 7,435 Schmidt plates taken from various sky surveys during the last 50 years. The catalogue is expected to be complete down to V=21; the estimated accuracies are 0.2arcsec for the positions at J2000, 0.3mag in up to 5 colors, and 85% accuracy for distinguishing stars from non-stellar objects
Sternberg Astronomical Institute Virtual Observatory Project
Description:
USNO-A2.0 is a catalog of 526,280,881 stars, and is
based on a re-reduction of the Precision Measuring Machine (PMM) scans
that were the basis for the USNO-A1.0 catalog. The major difference between
A2.0 and A1.0 is that A1.0 used the Guide Star Catalog (Lasker et al. 1986,
as its reference frame whereas A2.0 uses the ICRF as realized by the USNO
ACT catalog (Urban et al. 1997).
Data for these sources were obtained from the Vela 5B all-sky XC detector. The Vela 5B nuclear test detection satellite was part of a program run jointly by the Advanced Research Projects of the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S.Atomic Energy Commission, managed by the U.S. Air Force. It was placed in a nearly circular orbit at a geocentric distance of ~118,000 km on 23 May 1969; the orbital period was ~112 hours. The satellite rotated about its spin axis with a ~64-sec period. The X-ray detector was located ~90 degrees from the spin axis, and so covered the celestial sphere twice per satellite orbit. Data were telemetered in 1-sec count accumulations. Vela 5B operated until 19 June 1979, although telemetry tracking was poor after mid-1976. The scintillation X-ray detector (XC) aboard Vela 5B consisted of two 1-mm-thick NaI(Tl) crystals mounted on photomultiplier tubes and covered by a 5-mil-thick beryllium window. Electronic thresholds provided two energy channels, 3-12 keV and 6-12 keV. In front of each crystal was a slat collimator providing a FWHM aperture of ~6.1x6.1 degrees. The effective detector area was ~26 sq-cm. Sensitivity to celestial sources was severely limited by the intrinsic detector background of ~36 cts/sec. The Vela 5B X-ray detector yielded ~40 cts/sec for the Crab, so 1 Vela ct/sec ~25 UFU~4.5E-10 ergs/sq-cm/sec in the 3-12 keV response band. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
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