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An FUV Mosaic of the Small Magellanic Cloud [Cornett et al., 1997, AJ 113, 1011] made up of the longest exposures of SMC fields made by the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) during the Astro-1 and Astro-2 missions. The circular sub-image fields are 40 arcmin in diameter with the following centers and exposures:
Field |
RA
(2000) |
DEC
(2000) |
Exp
Time (sec) |
Remarks/ID |
1 |
00
47 33.7 |
-73
06 26.8 |
117.0 |
Astro-1: FUV0091 |
2 |
00
50 58.3 |
-72
44 56.5 |
247.0 |
Astro-2: FUV2900 |
3 |
00
56 41.2 |
-72
28 28.8 |
459.0 |
Astro-2: FUV2098 |
4 |
00
59 24.2 |
-72
11 08.4 |
898.0 |
Astro-2: FUV2320 |
The images have resolution ~3 arcsec and are made with the UIT 'B5' bandpass, which has λeff = 1620 ; Δλ (FWHM) = 225Â. The FITS mosaic was produced by scaling the images to match one another visually, and its calibration is only relative (i.e. it is linear but it is not calibrated in physical units). The individual subimages are available in FITS format at http://archive.stsci.edu/uit/ by specifying the 'Data ID' values listed in the table. The FITS headers of the images contain complete calibration and astrometry information.
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