J/ApJS/282/44ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/282/44CDSGorski M.Pietrzynski G.Karczmarek P.Hajdu G.Kicia M.,Kaluszynski M.Eimer J.R.Smee S.A.Zgirski B.Wielgorski P.,Narloch W.2026-07-29T06:05:42Z2026-07-29T07:02:34ZCDS support team

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cds-question@unistra.frinfrared-photometrystandard-starsWe present precise J- and K-band photometric measurements for 128 near-infrared (NIR) secondary standard stars, located in the 19 United Kingdom Infrared Telescope/Maunakea Observatories (UKIRT/MKO) primary faint standard fields. The data were collected over more than 50 nights, covering a decade of observations between 2008 and 2018 at the ESO La Silla Observatory, using the New Technology Telescope equipped with the SOFI NIR camera. Presented magnitudes are calibrated onto the MKO photometric system. The J- and K-band magnitudes range from 10 to 15.8 mag, with median values of J=13.5mag and K=13mag. The selection process ensured high photometric quality, with a precision better than 0.01 mag for all stars. The catalog excludes stars with close neighbors, high proper motion, or variable stars. Using these fields for standardization can improve the precision and accuracy of photometric calibrations without increasing the observational time cost.2026ApJS..282...44Ghttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/282/44CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toII/246 : 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003)VII/233 : 2MASS All-Sky Extended Source Catalog (XSC) (IPAC/UMass, 2003-2006)II/319 : UKIDSS-DR9 LAS, GCS and DXS Surveys (Lawrence+ 2012)I/355 : Gaia DR3 Part 1. Main source (Gaia Collaboration, 2022)J/AJ/123/789 : ARAUCARIA project: NGC 300 Cepheid var. (Pietrzynski+, 2002)J/MNRAS/373/781 : JHK photometry of faint standard stars (Leggett+, 2006)J/AJ/154/263 : NIR photometry of 77 RR Lyrae stars (Karczmarek+, 2017)J/MNRAS/493/2568 : Faint Standards for UKIDSS and VISTA ZYJHK (Leggett+, 2020)J/ApJS/253/42 : The Araucaria Project: deep NIR phot. I. (Karczmarek+, 2021)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/282/44https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/282/44http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/282/44https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/282/44https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/282/44http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/282/44GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJS/282/44/table3 (*Photometry of the secondary standard stars in the 19 standard star field)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/282/44/table3?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/282/44/table3?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/282/44/table3?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true8.4769167-12.13299440.0055555555555555566/4210 4298 12629 16879 18028 18732 18795 18861 21844 22038 22100 22927 23289 23546 30440 36301 40904 487288.824067378408481e-20 1.6921341730348006e-19https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJS/282/44?format=asciiInfrareddefaultJ/ApJS/282/44/table3*Photometry of the secondary standard stars in the 19 standard star fieldrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintNameSource identifiermeta.id;meta.maincharRAJ2000Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)pos.eq.ra;meta.mainDEJ2000Degree of Declination (J2000)pos.eq.dec;meta.mainJmag[10.59/15.86] Median MKO J band apparent magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.Jfloate_Jmag[0.003/0.011] Uncertainty in Jmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.Jfloato_Jmag[5/26] Number of epochs in Jmagmeta.number;phot.mag;em.IR.JintKmag[10.06/15.22] Median MKO K band apparent magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.Kfloate_Kmag[0.003/0.011] Uncertainty in Kmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.Kfloato_Kmag[5/26] Number of epochs in Kmagmeta.numberintGaiaGaia DR3 identifiermeta.id