VI/104 The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) (1990, 1995)
The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT), ASTRO 1 and ASTRO 2 shuttle missions
(1990, 1995)
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ADC_Keywords: Observatory log ; Ultraviolet
Mission_Name: UIT
Description:
UIT was one of three ultraviolet telescopes on the ASTRO-1 mission
flown on the space shuttle Columbia during 2-10 December 1990.
The same three instruments were later flown on the space
shuttle Endeavour during 3-17 March 1995, as part of the ASTRO-2
mission. Exposures were obtained on 70-mm photographic film
in the 1200-3300 Angstrom range using broadband filters and later
digitized using a Perkin-Elmer microdensitometer. Image resolution
was 3 arcseconds over a 40 minute field of view. Overall, UIT-1
obtained 821 exposures of 66 targets, and UIT-2 obtained 758 images
of 193 targets.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
uitlist.dat 121 1481 UIT Observation Log
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See also:
http://archive.stsci.edu/uit/ : UIT in MAST at STScI.
http://archive.stsci.edu/astro/index.html : ASTRO MISSION
VI/103 : The Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT)
VI/105 : Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment (WUPPE)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: uitlist.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 8 A8 --- Target Target name specified by UIT mission
10- 19 F10.6 deg RAdeg RA in J2000 decimal degrees
21- 30 F10.6 deg DEdeg DEC in J2000 decimal degrees
32- 38 A7 --- PointID ASTRO Pointid (1)
40- 43 A4 --- Jotfid The first 4 digits of the PointID
45- 79 A35 --- Category Translation of the the jotfid
82- 85 I4 yr Start.Y [1990-1995] Start time (year)
86 A1 --- --- [-]
87- 88 I2 "month" Start.M [1-12] Start time (month)
89 A1 --- --- [-]
90- 91 I2 d Start.D [1-31] Start time (day)
92 A1 --- --- [T]
93- 94 I2 h Start.h [0-24] Start time (hour)
95 A1 --- --- [:]
96- 97 I2 min Start.m [0-60] Start time (minute)
98 A1 --- --- [:]
99-100 I2 s Start.s [0-60] Start time (second)
102-108 F7.1 s ExpTime The total exposure time in seconds.
110-111 A2 --- Filter Filter ID (2)
113 I1 --- ASTRO [1,2] Astro mission number
115-121 A7 --- DataID Dataset identification (3)
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Note (1): All three ASTRO missions assigned a unique pointing ID
for each target:
Digit one - see the "Science Class" section below
Digit two - Science Subclass See Bottom
Digits 3/4 - Target Numbers within Subclass
Digit 5 - N => Nth pointing at target with different roll or offset
Digit 6 - 0 => only one pointing for target
N => Nth pointing
Digits 5 and 6 often not available
Note (2): The UIT instrument included two six-position filter wheels.
The "A" filters were sensitive in the near-UV while the "B"
filters were sensitive in the Far-UV.
Note (3): Dataset identification as used by preview page generator etc.
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Science Classes: the hierarchy of the classification is the following:
0 Calibration
0.0 HUT Camera Sensitivity Targets
0.1 HUT Spectrometer Focus Targets
0.2 HUT
0.3 UIT Flat Field Sources
0.4 UIT
0.5 WUPPE Aperture Position Calibrators
0.6 WUPPE Unpolarized & Polarized Standards
0.7 BBXRT Calibration Sources
0.8 BBXRT
0.9 Joint Focus and Alignment Targets
1 Solar System Objects
1.1 Comets
1.2 Planets
1.3 Asteroids, etc.
2 Individual Stars
2.1 Supergiants
2.2 Oe/Be Stars
2.3 Wolf-Rayet Stars
2.4 Rapid Rotators
2.5 Normal White Dwarfs
2.6 Magnetic/Pulsating W.D.'s
2.7 Planetary Nebula Nuclei
2.8 Normal Stars A0 & Later
3 Variable and Binary Stars
3.1 Pre-Main Sequence Stars
3.2 Cataclysmic Variables
3.3 Interacting Binaries
3.4 Symbiotic Stars
3.5 Active Chromospheres
3.6 Pulsating Variables
3.7 Low Mass X-Ray Binaries
3.8 High Mass X-Ray Binaries
3.9 X-Ray Transients
4 ISM & Nebulae
4.1 Planetary Nebulae
4.2 Reflection Nebulae
4.3 H II Regions
4.4 Super Nova Remnants
4.5 I.S. Polarization Probes
4.6 I.S. Absorption Probes (Nearby & Hot)
4.7 Herbig-Haro Objects
4.8 Dark Clouds
4.9 Diffuse Galactic X-Ray Emission Regions
5 Star Clusters
5.1 Metal Poor Globulars
5.2 Metal Rich Globulars
5.3 Open (Galactic) Clusters
5.4 O/B Associations
6 Normal Galaxies
6.1 Nearby Galaxies
6.2 Spirals
6.3 Ellipticals
6.4 Irregulars
6.5 Dwarfs
6.6 Edge On Systems
7 Abnormal Galaxies
7.1 Interacting Galaxies
7.2 Amorphous Galaxies
7.3 Rapid Star Formation
7.4 W/Circumgalactic Matter
7.5 E/S0 with I.S. Matter
7 X-Ray Miscellany
7.6 X-Ray Background
7.7 Unidentified X-Ray Sources
8 Active Extragalactic
8.1 Seyfert I Galaxies
8.2 Seyfert II Galaxies
8.3 Radio Galaxies
8.4 Radio Loud Quasistellar Objects
8.5 Radio Quiet Quasistellar Objects
8.6 BL Lacertae Objects
8.7 LINERs
8.8 Optically Violent Variable (OVV) Quasars
9 Clusters of Galaxies
9.1 Spiral Poor Clusters
9.2 Spiral Rich Clusters
9.3 X-Ray Selected Clusters
9.4 Deep Survey Fields
9.5 Cooling Flow Clusters
9 Spacecraft Specific
9.7 TAPS Tests
9.8 Gyros/IMC/IPS
9.9 Waterdumps/Handovers
Acknowledgements:
Karen Levay
Randall Thompson
(End) Mark Allen [CDS] 04-Feb-2002