PTI calibrator catalog Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. van Belle G.T.
  2. van Belle G.
  3. Creech-Eakman M.J.
  4. Coyne J.
  5. Boden A.F.,Akeson R.L.
  6. Ciardi D.R.
  7. Rykoski K.M.
  8. Thompson R.R.
  9. Lane B.F.,(the PTI Collaboration)
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI) archive of observations between 1998 and 2005 is examined for objects appropriate for calibration of optical long-baseline interferometer observations - stars that are predictably pointlike and single. Approximately 1400 nights of data on 1800 objects were examined for this investigation. We compare those observations to an intensively studied object that is a suitable calibrator, HD 217014, and statistically compare each candidate calibrator to that object by computing both a Mahalanobis distance and a principal component analysis. Our hypothesis is that the frequency distribution of visibility data associated with calibrator stars differs from noncalibrator stars such as binary stars. Spectroscopic binaries resolved by PTI, objects known to be unsuitable for calibrator use, are similarly tested to establish detection limits of this approach. From this investigation, we find more than 350 observed stars suitable for use as calibrators (with an additional ~140 being rejected), corresponding to >~95% sky coverage for PTI.

Keywords
  1. interferometry
  2. standard-stars
  3. infrared-sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2008ApJS..176..276V
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/176/276
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/176/276
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21760276

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http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/176/276/stars?

History

2009-09-01T07:55:44Z
Resource record created
2009-09-01T07:55:44Z
Created
2017-06-19T07:58:14Z
Updated

Contact

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