The University of Texas Catalog of Ultraviolet and Optical Stellar Data

Abstract

At the University of Texas we are working on the reduction and analysis of ultraviolet stellar spectra obtained with the S–019 experiment on Skylab (Karl Henize, principal investigator). Our objective prism photographs recorded nearly 10, 000 stars at wavelengths shortward of 3000Å, many of them of 9th or 10th visual mag., and for proper analysis we need to assemble ground-based data into a workable master catalog. The most immediate application of this catalog will be computer simulation of the ultraviolet photographs in order to point out significant anomalies with respect to previous knowledge. We need to have a catalog, then, which is as complete as possible in terms of the existence of early-type stars to at least 10th mag., their spectral types, photometry, known peculiarities, duplicity, and so forth. Also the master catalog must contain only a single value for each magnitude and for the spectral type, rather than a listing of various determinations, in order to be useful for the simulation. This means that auxiliary data files are needed for recording data in more detail so that the master catalog may be kept at a workable size, while at the same time the basic data are readily available.