Matched photometric catalogs of GALEX UV sources with Gaia DR2 and SDSS DR14 databases (GUVmatch)

Abstract

We have matched the ultraviolet (UV) sources in GUVcat_AIS (Bianchi et al.2017) with optical databases having similar depth and wide sky coverage. GUVcat_AIS has GALEX far-UV (FUV, lambda-eff ~1528Å) and near-UV (NUV, lambda-eff ~2310Å) photometry of approx 83~million sources, covering 24,788 square degrees of the sky, with typical depth of FUV=19.9, NUV=20.8~ABmag. Matches with Gaia and SDSS databases are presented here. Gaia data release 2 (DR2), covering the entire GUVcat footprint (Bianchi et al. 2019), detected about one third of the $GUVcat\_AIS$ sources. We found 31,925,294 Gaia~DR2 counterparts to 30,024,791 GUVcat_AIS unique sources, with photometry in $Gaia$~$G$ band, and often also in $Gaia$~$BP$ and $RP$ bands; 26,275,572 matches have a parallax measurement, 21,084,628/18,588,140/16,357,505 with parallax error less than 50%/30%/20%. The match with SDSS data release 14 (DR14) yields 23,310,532 counterparts to 22,207,563 unique GUVcat_AIS sources, 10,167,460 of which are point-like, over a total overlap area of $\approx$11,100~square~degrees (Bianchi et al. 2019)}. SDSS adds to the UV photometry five optical magnitudes: $u,g,r,i,z$, and optical spectra of 860,224 matched sources. We used a match radius of 3arcsec, consistent with previous works (e.g., Bianchi et al. 2011a), although the positions agree to $\lesssim$1.5arcsec for the majority of [point-like] matched-sources, in order to identify possible multiple matches whose UV flux could be unresolved in GALEX imaging. The catalogs can be trimmed to a tighter match radius using the provided separation. The multi-band photometry is used to identify classes of astrophysical objects that are prominent in UV, to characterise the content of the $GUVmatch$ catalogs, where stars in different evolutionary stages, QSOs, and galaxies can be separated.

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