UBVRIJHK color-temperature calibration Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Worthey G.
  2. Lee H.-C.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

A collection of Johnson/Cousins photometry for stars with known [Fe/H] is used to generate color-color relations that include the abundance dependence. Literature temperature and bolometric correction (BC) dependences are attached to the color relations. The JHK colors are transformed to the Bessell & Brett (1988PASP..100.1134B) homogenized system. The main result of this work is the tabulation of seven colors and the V-band BC as a function of Teff, logg, and [Fe/H] for -1.06<V-K<10.2 and an accompanying interpolation program. Improvements to the present calibration would involve filling photometry gaps, obtaining more accurate and on-system photometry, knowing better logg and [Fe/H] values, improving the statistics for data-impoverished groups of stars such as metal-poor K dwarfs, applying small tweaks in the processing pipeline, and obtaining better empirical temperature and BC relations, especially for supergiants and M stars. A way to estimate dust extinction from M dwarf colors is pointed out.

Keywords
  1. metallicity
  2. infrared-photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. Wide-band photometry
  5. m-stars
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2011ApJS..193....1W
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/193/1
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/193/1
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.21930001

Access

Web browser access HTML
http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/193/1
https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/193/1
http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/193/1
IVOA Table Access TAP
http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Run SQL-like queries with TAP-enabled clients (e.g., TOPCAT).

History

2011-04-12T07:03:31Z
Resource record created
2011-04-12T07:03:31Z
Created
2011-04-28T15:20:46Z
Updated

Contact

Name
CDS support team
Postal Address
CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
E-Mail
cds-question@unistra.fr