S201 far-ultraviolet atlas of the large Magellanic cloud

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Astronomical Maps, Far Ultraviolet Radiation, Magellanic Clouds, Ultraviolet Photometry, Apollo 16 Flight, Galaxies, Hydrogen, Nebulae, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet Astronomy

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Far-ultraviolet electrographic images, covering the wavelengths ranges 1050 to 1600 A and 1230 to 1600 A, were obtained of the Large Magellanic Cloud during the Apollo 16 mission with the NRL Far-Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph (Experiment S201). The images have about 4-arc-minute resolution and reveal early-type star associations, individual early-type LMC stars, and galactic foreground stars. The images were analyzed in the manner described in the S201 Catalog of Far-Ultraviolet Objects (NRL Report 8173), and isodensity contour maps of the LMC were generated from the far-UV images. Individual far-UV brightnesses were determined, and corrected for interstellar extinction, for 122 Lucke-Hodge associations and 157 Henize nebulas. Over 130 other objects, of which 20 were identified as galactic foreground stars, were also measured. The ratio of UV flux to hydrogen Balmer-alpha (H alpha) intensity, denoted hydrogen index, was determined for 90 of the Henize nebulas. The Atlas listing, which lists the individual far-UV flux measurements and hydrogen index determinations, is also available on a seven-track magnetic tape.

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