A galex ultraviolet imaging survey of galaxies in the local volume

© 2011. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. GALEX is a NASA Small Explorer, and we gratefully acknowledge NASA's support for construction, operation, and science analysis for the GALEX mission, developed in cooperation with the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales of France and the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA, as well as the HyperLeda database (http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr). We thank the anonymous referee for useful feedback which helped to clarify some important points in our interpretation of the data. Special thanks are due to Chris Martin and the members of the GALEX team (http://www.galex.caltech.edu/about/team.html) for their dedicated support of the Guest Investigator Program, without which this work would not have been possible. A.G.d.P. is supported by the Spanish "Ramón y Cajal", Plan Nacional AYA2009-10368, Consolider-GTC and AstroMadrid (CAM S2009/ESP-1496) programs.
Comunidad de Madrid
Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), España
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
HyperLeda database
Programa Ramón y Cajal
Programa Consolider-GTC
Depto. de Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica
Fac. de Ciencias Físicas
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