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The GALEX Ultraviolet Virgo Cluster Survey (GUViCS) III. The ultraviolet source catalogs

Journal

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 569, Issue -, Pages -

Publisher

EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322511

Keywords

catalogs; galaxies: clusters: individual: Virgo; galaxies: star formation; ultraviolet: galaxies; galaxies: photometry

Funding

  1. French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR10-BLANC-0506-01]
  2. NASA [NAS5-98034]
  3. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  4. National Science Foundation
  5. US Department of Energy Office of Science
  6. University of Arizona
  7. Brazilian Participation Group
  8. Brookhaven National Laboratory
  9. University of Cambridge
  10. Carnegie Mellon University
  11. University of Florida
  12. French Participation Group
  13. German Participation Group
  14. Harvard University
  15. Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
  16. Michigan State/Notre Dame/JINA Participation Group
  17. Johns Hopkins University
  18. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  19. Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
  20. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  21. New Mexico State University
  22. New York University
  23. Ohio State University
  24. Pennsylvania State University
  25. University of Portsmouth
  26. Princeton University
  27. Spanish Participation Group
  28. University of Tokyo
  29. University of Utah
  30. Vanderbilt University
  31. University of Virginia
  32. University of Washington
  33. Yale University
  34. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  35. Canadian Space Agency

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In this paper we introduce the deepest and most extensive ultraviolet extragalactic source catalogs of the Virgo Cluster area to date. Archival and targeted GALEX imaging is compiled and combined to provide the deepest possible coverage over similar to 120 deg(2) in the NUV (lambda(eff) = 2316 angstrom) and similar to 40 deg(2) in the FUV (lambda(eff) = 1539 angstrom) between 180 degrees <= RA <= 195 degrees and 0 degrees <= Dec <= 20 degrees. We measure the integrated photometry of 1770 extended UV sources of all galaxy types and use GALEX pipeline photometry for 1 230 855 point-like sources in the foreground, within, and behind the cluster. Extended source magnitudes are reliable to mUV similar to 22, showing a similar to 0.01 sigma difference from their asymptotic magnitudes. Point-like source magnitudes have a 1 sigma standard deviation within similar to 0.2 mag down to m(uv) similar to 23. The point-like source catalog is cross-matched with large optical databases and surveys including the SDSS DR9 (>1 million Virgo Cluster sources), the Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS; >13 million Virgo Cluster sources), and the NED (similar to 30 000 sources in the Virgo Cluster). We find that 69% of the entire UV point-like source catalog has a unique optical counterpart, 11% of which are stars and 0.01% (129) are Virgo cluster members that are neither in the VCC nor part of the bright CGCG galaxy catalog (i.e., m(pg) < 14.5). These data are collected in three catalogs containing the UV extended sources, the UV point-like sources, and the most relevant optical parameters of UV-optically matched point-like sources for further studies from SDSS. The GUViCS catalogs provide a unique set of data for future work on UV and multiwavelength studies in the cluster and background environments.

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