ATLAS all-sky stellar ref. catalog, ATLAS-REFCAT2 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Tonry J.L.
  2. Denneau L.
  3. Flewelling H.
  4. Heinze A.N.
  5. Onken C.A.,Smartt S.J.
  6. Stalder B.
  7. Weiland H.J.
  8. Wolf C.
  9. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) observes most of the sky every night in search of dangerous asteroids. Its data are also used to search for photometric variability, where sensitivity to variability is limited by photometric accuracy. Since each exposure spans 7.6{deg} corner to corner, variations in atmospheric transparency in excess of 0.01mag are common, and 0.01mag photometry cannot be achieved by using a constant flat-field calibration image. We therefore have assembled an all-sky reference catalog of approximately one billion stars to m~19 from a variety of sources to calibrate each exposure's astrometry and photometry. Gaia DR2 is the source of astrometry for this ATLAS Refcat2. The sources of g, r, i, and z photometry include Pan-STARRS DR1, the ATLAS Pathfinder photometry project, ATLAS reflattened APASS data, SkyMapper DR1, APASS DR9, the Tycho-2 catalog, and the Yale Bright Star Catalog. We have attempted to make this catalog at least 99% complete to m<19, including the brightest stars in the sky. We believe that the systematic errors are no larger than 5mmag rms, although errors are as large as 20mmag in small patches near the Galactic plane.

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. trigonometric-parallax
  5. proper-motions
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2018ApJ...867..105T
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/867/105
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/867/105
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18670105

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History

2021-03-31T09:38:24Z
Resource record created
2021-03-31T09:38:24Z
Created
2023-12-20T08:38:52Z
Updated

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