MOSAIX: a tool to built large mosaics from GALEX images

Large sky surveys are providing a huge amount of information for studies of the interstellar medium, the galactic structure or the cosmic web. Setting into a common frame information coming from different wavelengths, over large fields of view, is needed for this kind of research. GALEX is the only...

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Published in:Astrophysics and space science 2014-11, Vol.354 (1), p.113-119
Main Authors: Armengot, Marcelo, Sánchez, Nestor, López-Santiago, Javier, Gómez de Castro, Ana Inés
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Astrobiology
Astronomy
Astrophysics
Astrophysics and Astroparticles
Communities
Computer programs
Cosmology
Field of view
Galactic structure
Interstellar matter
Observations and Techniques
Original Article
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Software
Space Exploration and Astronautics
Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics
Stars & galaxies
Ultraviolet astronomy
Wavelengths
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Summary:Large sky surveys are providing a huge amount of information for studies of the interstellar medium, the galactic structure or the cosmic web. Setting into a common frame information coming from different wavelengths, over large fields of view, is needed for this kind of research. GALEX is the only nearly all-sky survey at ultraviolet wavelengths and contains fundamental information for all types of studies. GALEX field of view is circular embedded in a squared matrix of 3840×3840 pixels. This fact makes it hard to get GALEX images properly overlapped with the existing astronomical tools such as Aladin or Montage. We developed our own software for this purpose. In this article, we describe this software and makes it available to the community.
ISSN:0004-640X
1572-946X
DOI:10.1007/s10509-014-1997-5