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A sky survey of ultraviolet sources observed through AstroSat’s UVIT: A point source catalogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2024

Swagat Bordoloi ,
P. Shalima ,
Rupjyoti Gogoi Open the ORCID record for Rupjyoti Gogoi [Opens in a new window]  and
Jayant Murthy
Swagat Bordoloi
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Napaam, Assam, India
P. Shalima
Affiliation:
Manipal Centre for Natural Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka, India
Rupjyoti Gogoi*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Tezpur University, Napaam, Assam, India
Jayant Murthy
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
*
Corresponding author: Rupjyoti Gogoi; Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard India’s first dedicated multiwavelength satellite AstroSat observed a significant fraction of the sky in the ultraviolet with a spatial resolution of 1.4$^{\prime\prime}$. We present a catalogue of the point sources observed by UVIT in the far ultraviolet (FUV; 1 300–1 800 Å) and near ultraviolet (NUV; 2 000–3 000 Å). We carried out astrometry and photometry of 428 field pointings in the FUV and 54 field pointings in the NUV band, observed in 5 filter bands in each channel, respectively, covering an area of about 63 square degrees. The final catalogue contains about 102 773 sources. The limiting magnitude(AB) of the F148W band filter, that has the largest number of detections is $\sim$$21.3$. For the NUV channel, we find the limiting magnitude at around $\sim$23. We describe the final catalogue and present the results of the statistical analysis.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 41 , 2024 , e086
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