Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-05-28
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement. LaTex, 15 pages including 3 postscript figures. AAStex macro
Scientific paper
10.1086/192361
We present an atlas of UV ($\sim 2300$ \AA) images, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Faint Object Camera, of the central $22''\times 22''$ of 110 galaxies. The observed galaxies are an unbiased selection constituting about one half of a complete sample of all large ($D>6'$) and nearby ($V< 2000$ km s$^{-1}$) 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 ($\sim 0.05''$), 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 $\sim 2300$ \AA\ flux in each image, classify the UV morphology, and examine trends between these parameters and the optical properties of the galaxies.
Filippenko Alexei V.
Ho Luis C.
Macchetto Ferdinando D.
Maoz Dan
Rix Hans-Walter
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