Improved GALEX photometry of z<0.3 SDSS galaxies

DOI

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite performed the first and only large-area UV survey, which in tandem with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has facilitated modeling of the spectral energy distributions of low-redshift galaxies and the determination of various galaxy properties, in particular the star formation rate. However, the relatively crude angular resolution of GALEX (5") made its images susceptible to blending of sources, resulting in potentially biased far-UV and near-UV (NUV) pipeline photometry. To remedy this issue and take advantage of model-fit photometry, we use the EMphot software to obtain forced GALEX photometry for ~700000 SDSS galaxies at z0.2mag and 2% at a level of >1mag. Pipeline NUV magnitudes are severely affected (>~1mag) when the neighbor is brighter than the target galaxy and within 10", or when the neighbor is fainter and within ~3" of the target. New photometry fixes edge-of-detector bias, which affected pipeline photometry by up to 0.1mag in NUV. We present catalogs with new photometry for GALEX observations of different depths, corresponding to the all-sky imaging survey (AIS), medium imaging survey, and deep imaging survey. Catalogs feature combined magnitudes for multiple detections of the same galaxy in a survey.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/268/26/gswlcais (GSWLC-A or the AIS survey catalog)

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Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.22680026
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/268/26
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/268/26
Related Identifier http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/268/26
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/268/26
Provenance
Creator Osborne C.; Salim S.; Boquien M.; Dickinson M.; Arnouts S.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2024
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics