LMC far-ultraviolet imaging

DOI

We present an analysis of the deepest pure UV observations with the highest angular resolution ever performed, a set of 12 exposures with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and F160BW filter obtained in parallel observing mode, which covers ~12arcmin^2^ in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), north of the bar, and in the "general field" regime of the LMC. The 341 independent measurements of 198 objects represent an accumulated exposure of >=2x10^4^s and reveal stars as faint as m_UV_~=22mag. The observations show that about two-thirds of the UV emission from the LMC is emitted by our HST-detected UV stars in the field, that is, not in clusters or associations. We identified optical counterparts in the Royal Observatory Edinburgh/Naval Research Laboratory photometric catalog for about one-third of the objects.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.51170206
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Provenance
Creator Brosch N.; Shara M.; Mackenty J.; Zurek D.; McLean B.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2000
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics