SNLS and SDSS SN surveys photometric calibration Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Betoule M.
  2. Marriner J.
  3. Regnault N.
  4. Cuillandre J.-C.
  5. Astier P.
  6. Guy J.,Balland C.
  7. El Hage P.
  8. Hardin D.
  9. Kessler R.
  10. Le Guillou L.
  11. Mosher J.,Pain R.
  12. Rocci P.-F.
  13. Sako M.
  14. Schahmaneche K.
  15. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a joined photometric calibration for the SNLS and the SDSS supernova surveys. Our main delivery are catalogs of natural AB magnitudes for a large set of selected tertiary standard stars covering the science field of both surveys. Those catalogs are calibrated to the AB flux scale through observations of 5 primary spectrophotometric standard stars, for which HST-STIS spectra are available in the CALSPEC database. The estimate of the uncertainties associated to this calibration are delivered as a single covariance matrix. We also provide a model of the transmission efficiency of the SNLS photometric instrument MegaCam. Those transmission functions are required for the interpretation of MegaCam natural magnitudes in term of physical fluxes. Similar curves for the SDSS photometric instrument have been published in Doi et al. (2010AJ....139.1628D). Last, we release the measured magnitudes of the five CALSPEC standard stars in the magnitude system of the tertiary catalogs. This makes it possible to update the calibration of the tertiary catalogs if CALSPEC spectra for the primary standards are revised.

Keywords
  1. supernovae
  2. photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. sloan-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2013A&A...552A.124B
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IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/552/A124
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.35520124

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History

2013-04-19T14:12:18Z
Resource record created
2013-04-19T14:12:18Z
Created
2023-04-24T14:14:07Z
Updated

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