Department of Physics and Astronomy: Publications and Other Research
Date of this Version
December 1993
Abstract
Far-ultraviolet photometry for 625 objects in Orion is presented. These data were extracted from electrographic camera images obtained during sounding rocket flights in 1975 and 1982. The 1975 images were centered close to the belt of Orion while the 1982 images were centered ~9° further north. One hundred and fifty stars fell in the overlapping region and were observed with both cameras. Sixty-eight percent of the objects were tentatively identified with known stars using the SIMBAD database while another 24% are blends of objects too close together to separate with our resolution. As in previous studies, the majority of the identified ultraviolet sources are early-type stars. However, there are a significant number for which no such identification was possible, and we suggest that these are interesting objects which should be further investigated Seven stars were found which were bright in the ultraviolet but faint in the visible. We suggest that some of these are nearby white dwarfs.
Comments
Published inThe Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 89, pp. 259-270 (December 1993). Published by the University of Chicago Press; copyright © 1993 American Astronomical Society; reproduced by permission of the AAS.http://www.noao.edu/apjsup/apjsup.html