NUV Star Catalog from the Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope Survey: First Release

作     者：Xian-Min Meng Xu-Hui Han Jian-Yan Wei Jing Wang Li Cao Yu-Lei Qiu Chao Wu Jin-Song Deng Hong-Bo Cai Li-Ping Xin 

作者机构：Key Laboratory of Space Astronomy and Technology National Astronomical Observatories Chinese Academy of Sciences 

出 版 物：《Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics》 (天文和天体物理学研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第16卷第11期

页      面：29-36页

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学科分类：07[理学] 070401[理学-天体物理] 0704[理学-天文学] 

基　　金：supported by the Key Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KGED-EW-603) the National Basic Research Program of China (973-program, Grant No. 2014CB845800) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11203033, 11473036, U1231115 and U1431108) 

主　　题：Astronomical Databases: surveys    Astronomical Databases: catalogs    techniques: imageprocessing    techniques: photometric    ultraviolet: stars 

摘      要：We present a star catalog extracted from the Lunar-based Ultraviolet Telescope （LUT） survey program. LUT＇s observable sky area is a circular belt around the Moon＇s north pole, and the survey program covers a preferred area of about 2400 deg2 which includes a region of the Galactic plane. The data are processed with an automatic pipeline which copes with stray light contamination, artificial sources, cosmic rays, flat field calibration, photometry and so on. In the first release version, the catalog provides high confidence sources which have been cross-identified with the Tycho-2 catalog. All the sources have signalto-noise ratio larger than 5, and the corresponding magnitude limit is typically 14.4 mag, but can be as deep as -16 mag if stray light contamination is at the lowest level. A total of 86 467 stars are recorded in the catalog. The full catalog in electronic form is available online.