Uhuru Fourth (4U) Catalog

During the interval for which the spin axis was fixed, repeated scans were made of the same 10 by 360 degrees band of the sky. For this catalog, the individual scans were superposed using aspect data from an orthogonally mounted triad of magnetometers and a Sun sensor onboard the spacecraft, supplemented by observations of well-located X-ray sources. The observations employed in producing this catalog were obtained over a total of 429 days between 1970 December 12 and 1973 March 18, apart from a gap between 1972 July and December when the spacecraft's transmitter was operating improperly.

This online catalog was created by the HEASARC in March 2003 based on a table obtained originally from the ADC website (<a href="heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/heasarc/dbase/misc_files/uhuru4/4u.dat">https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/FTP/heasarc/dbase/misc_files/uhuru4/4u.dat</a>), which was modified by the HEASARC to include some parameters that were in the published catalog (Table 1 in the reference) but were not in the ADC table.

The HEASARC made a small number of other changes and corrections to the table which are listed in the HEASARC_Implementation section of this help. Notice that the ADC table itself differs in a number of respects from the published Table 1, e.g., the comments are sometimes abbreviated and/or different, some of the names are slightly different (usually by one digit in the RA minutes part), and three of the entries have differing names and positions.

This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .