A Discussion on astronomy in the ultraviolet - Preliminary observations of the Magellanic Clouds with the ultraviolet sky survey telescope

Abstract

Observations of the Magellanic Clouds have been made with the ultraviolet skysurvey telescope (S2-68) on board the E.S.R.O. satellite TD-1A. From the data so far reduced, the ultraviolet surface brightness has been derived for four wavelength bands centred near 1550, 1950, 2350 and 2740 A Ultraviolet maps of the Large Magellanic Cloud are presented and the flux distributions in each cloud are compared with that expected from a galactic luminosity function.