The Calibration and Data Products of GALEX

By P. Morrissey, T. Conrow, T. Barlow, T. Small, M. Seibert, T. Wyder, Tamás Budavári, Stéphane Arnouts, P. Friedman, K. Forster and 13 more. 2007

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THE ARECIBO LEGACY FAST ALFA SURVEY: THE GALAXY POPULATION DETECTED BY ALFALFA (2012, background): “The GALEX field of view is ∼ 1.2◦ in diameter (Morrissey et al. 2007), although image quality deteriorates in the outer annulus beyond a radius of0.”
GALEX–SDSS–WISE LEGACY CATALOG (GSWLC): STAR FORMATION RATES, STELLAR MASSES, AND DUST ATTENUATIONS OF 700,000 LOW-REDSHIFT GALAXIES (2016, background): “GALEX has observed the sky in 1.2 deg. wide circular fields (“tiles”), with a wide range of exposure times (Morrissey et al. 2007).”
COMPARISON OF Hα AND UV STAR FORMATION RATES IN THE LOCAL VOLUME: SYSTEMATIC DISCREPANCIES FOR DWARF GALAXIES (2009, background): “Martin et al. (2005), Morrissey et al. (2005), Morrissey et al. (2007) provide full details on the satellite, telescope, instrument and calibration and data processing pipeline.”
AN ATLAS OF GALAXY SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE ULTRAVIOLET TO THE MID-INFRARED (2013, methodology): “Accurate matched-aperture photometry from the UV to the mid-infrared was measured with archival imaging from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX; Morrissey et al. 2007), Swift UV/optical monitor telescope (UVOT; Roming et al. 2005), Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS III; Aihara et al. 2011), Two…”
A GALEX ULTRAVIOLET IMAGING SURVEY OF GALAXIES IN THE LOCAL VOLUME (2010, methodology): “The quoted errors include the photometric uncertainty within the aperture and the error in the zeropoint (0.05 and 0.03 mAB in the FUV and NUV, respectively; Morrissey et al. 2007).”
The LABOCA survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South: A photometric redshift survey of submillimetre galaxies (2010, methodology): “The photometric redshifts differ by a mean value of |δzphot| of 0.024 with an rms error of 0.030, after including the WFI R-band data (Giacconi et al. 2002; Giavalisco et al. 2004) for 25 sources and the GALEX near-ultraviolet (near-UV) and far-UV data (Morrissey et al. 2007) for three sources.”
LOW-RESOLUTION SPECTRAL TEMPLATES FOR ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND GALAXIES FROM 0.03 TO 30 μm (2010, methodology): “…Survey (FLAMEX; Elston et al. 2006), z′ data from zBoötes (Cool 2007), MIPS 24 μm data from Weedman et al. (2006), NUV and FUV observations from the GALEX GR5 release (Morrissey et al. 2007), and the mid-IR IRAC observations of the Spitzer DeepWide Field Survey (SDWFS; Ashby et al. 2009).”
High luminosity, slow ejecta and persistent carbon lines: SN 2009dc challenges thermonuclear explosion scenarios (2010, methodology): “Inspection of the GALEX images indeed shows a visible UV flux concentrated at the core of UGC 10064.”
OPTICAL DISCOVERY OF PROBABLE STELLAR TIDAL DISRUPTION FLARES (2010, methodology): “The GALEX UV flux values, corrected for the energy lost due to the 6′′ radius aperture, and using the pipeline-generated sky background value in counts per pixel and assuming Poisson errors aperture (Morrissey et al. 2007), are: FUV = 23.3± 0.3, NUV = 23.0± 0.2.”
CONFIRMATION OF A STAR FORMATION BIAS IN TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA DISTANCES AND ITS EFFECT ON THE MEASUREMENT OF THE HUBBLE CONSTANT (2014, methodology): “2006al +0.02 ± 0.18 +0.19 ± 0.14 +0.21 ± 0.14 0.069 1575 26.37 ± 1.20 >21.7 2.0 ± 0.6 Pa N −4.00+0.13−∞ 100 2006anb −0.05 ± 0.17 +0.18 ± 0.14 +0.21 ± 0.13 0.065 93 >21.1 24.05 ± 0.83 2.0 ± 0.6 SF Y <−2.2 23 2006az −0.06 ± 0.18 −0.08 ± 0.14 −0.05 ± 0.14 0.032 187 23.19 ± 0.64 22.08 ± 0.22 2.1 ± 0.6 P”
THE ULTRAVIOLET-BRIGHT, SLOWLY DECLINING TRANSIENT PS1-11af AS A PARTIAL TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENT (2013, methodology): “The field of PS1-11af was monitored in the nearultraviolet band (NUV; Morrissey et al. 2007) as part of the GALEX Time Domain Survey (TDS; Gezari et al. 2013) from 2011 January 31 to 2011 February 16.”
EXTENDING THE NEARBY GALAXY HERITAGE WITH WISE: FIRST RESULTS FROM THE WISE ENHANCED RESOLUTION GALAXY ATLAS (2012, methodology): “GALEX Observations and Measurements GALEX FUV (0.1516 µm) and NUV (0.2267 µm) images were obtained from the GALEX Medium Imaging Survey (MIS; Martin et al. 2005), which were processed using the standard GALEX pipeline (Morrissey et al. 2005, 2007).”
The UV-Optical Galaxy Color-Magnitude Diagram. I. Basic Properties (2007, methodology): “In addition to the statistical errors, we have added in quadrature an assumed zeropoint plus flat-field uncertainty of 2% in the NUVand 5% in the FUV (Morrissey et al. 2007).”
HAZMAT. I. THE EVOLUTION OF FAR-UV AND NEAR-UV EMISSION FROM EARLY M STARS (2014, methodology): “…full description of the instrumental performance is presented by Morrissey et al. (2005).4 The fluxes and magnitudes averaged over the entire exposure were produced by the standard GALEX Data Analysis Pipeline (version 4.0) operated at the Caltech Science Operations Center (Morrissey et al. 2007).”
Revised Catalog of GALEX Ultraviolet Sources. I. The All-Sky Survey: GUVcat_AIS (2017, methodology): “At ultraviolet (UV) wavelengths, instead, only the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) performed comprehensive sky surveys, with different coverage and depth (Morrissey et al. 2007; Bianchi 2009, 2014; Bianchi et al. 2007, 2011a, 2014a).”
THE EVOLUTION OF LYMAN LIMIT ABSORPTION SYSTEMS TO REDSHIFT SIX (2010, methodology): “Morrissey et al. (2007) detail the spectral extraction techniques used by the GALEX team in extracting the spectra from the grism data.”
(Almost) Dark Galaxies in the ALFALFA Survey: Isolated H i-bearing Ultra-diffuse Galaxies (2017, background): “Archival UV Data A subset of the HUDS samples fall within the footprint of archival GALEX near ultraviolet (NUV) and far ultraviolet (FUV) observations (Martin et al. 2005; Morrissey et al. 2007).”