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Mission Overview

The Fireworks Ultraviolet Survey (FUVS)

Primary Investigator: ​​​​​​Debby Tran

HLSP Authors: Debby Tran, Benjamin Williams, Emily Levesque 

Released:​​​​​​ 2023-07-13

Updated: 2023-07-13  

Primary Reference(s): Tran et al. 2023

DOI: 10.17909/gveq-8820

Citations: See ADS Metrics 

Read Me

Source Data:

 
The 14 pointings of the Fireworks UltraViolet Survey overlaid on a GALEX NUV image from the GALEX Nearby Galaxies Survey.
The yellow boxes show the 14 pointings of the Fireworks UltraViolet Survey overlaid on a GALEX NUV image from the GALEX Nearby Galaxies Survey. The magenta thumbnail shows a cutout of FUVS in filter F336W.

Overview

NGC 6946, otherwise known as the Fireworks Galaxy, is a nearby star-forming spiral galaxy with 10 supernovae observed in the past century. The Fireworks UltraViolet Survey (FUVS) is an imaging survey targeting the O and B stars in NGC 6946. The catalog contains resolved stellar photometry produced from high spatial resolution, near-UV images in Hubble Space Telescope's WFC3/UVIS F336W and F275W filters. This dataset was aligned using Gaia Data Release 2- the source IDs of the Gaia-matched sources are provided.

Data Products

The photometric catalog file is named:

hlsp_fuvs_hst_uvis-wfc3_ngc6946_f275w-f336w_v1_cat.csv

The README file is named:

hlsp_fuvs_hst_uvis-wfc3_ngc6946_f275w-f336w_v1_readme.txt

 

Data file types:

_cat.csv Photometric catalog file
_readme.txt README file

Data Access

Direct File Download
FUVS Photometric Catalog (82 MB)
FUVS README File

 

Citations

Please remember to cite the appropriate paper(s) below and the DOI if you use these data in a published work. 

Note: These HLSP data products are licensed for use under CC BY 4.0.

References

Tran et al. 2023

Spatially-Resolved Recent Star Formation History in NGC 6946