A first catalogue of automatically selected UV-excess sources from the
  UVEX survey
  We present the first catalogue of point-source UV-excess sources selected
from the UVEX survey. UVEX images the Northern Galactic Plane in the U, g, r
and HeI5875 bands in the Galactic latitude range -5deg<b<+5deg. Through an
automated algorithm, which works on a field-to-field basis, we select blue
UV-excess sources in 211 square degrees from the (U-g) vs. (g-r) colour-colour
diagram and the g vs. (U-g) and g vs. (g-r) colour-magnitude diagrams. The
UV-excess catalogue covers the magnituderange 14<g<22.5, contains 2170 sources
and consists of a mix of white dwarfs, post-common-envelope objects,
interacting binaries, quasars and AGN. Two other samples of outliers were found
during the selection: i) a 'subdwarf' sample, consisting of no less than 9872
candidate metal-poor stars or lightly reddened main-sequence stars, and ii) a
'purple' sample consisting of 803 objects, most likely a mix of reddened late
M-giants, T Tauri stars, planetary nebulae, symbiotic stars and carbon stars.
Cross-matching the selected UV-excess catalogue with other catalogues aids with
the first classification of the different populations and shows that more than
99% of our selected sources are unidentified sources.
