Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Observation Log

The instrument includes a 50-cm modified Ritchey-Chretien telescope, a dichroic beam splitter and astigmatism corrector, two large, sealed-tube microchannel plate detectors to simultaneously cover the two bands and the 1.2-degree field of view. A rotating wheel provides either imaging or grism spectroscopy with transmitting optics. The GALEX mission also includes an Associate Investigator program for additional observations and supporting data analysis which supports a wide variety of investigations made possible by the first UV sky survey.

The HEASARC provides this table of GALEX observations as an assistance to the high-energy astrophysics community, e.g., to enable cross-correlations of GALEX with X-ray observations. The GALEX data are available via MAST at <a href="galex.stsci.edu/">http://galex.stsci.edu/</a>. More information about GALEX can be found at <a href="galex.caltech.edu/">http://www.galex.caltech.edu/</a> and <a href="asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/galex/">https://asd.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/galex/</a>.

This table was first created in July 2010 using the input file <a href="sherpa.caltech.edu/gips/ref/galex_obs_status.csv">http://sherpa.caltech.edu/gips/ref/galex_obs_status.csv</a> obtained from the Caltech GALEX site. This table is updated within a week of the update of the original file. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .