Affiliation: | aMullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NT, England, UK bOriel College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4EW, UK cSRON National Institute for Space Research, Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht, Netherlands dKavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA |
Abstract: | ![]() A large number of galaxies, both normal and active, have been observed in ultraviolet light by the Optical Monitor on XMM-Newton. These are some of the deepest wide-field ultraviolet images of these galaxies yet obtained, and in many cases the first collected in this waveband. We present images of five active galaxies, and discuss the potential uses of the ultraviolet surface brightness distribution and morphology, in association with X-ray data, for Active Galactic Nuclei, star formation and galaxy evolution studies. |