Calibrated griz magnitudes of Tycho stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Ofek E.O.
  2. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Photometric calibration at an accuracy of ~5% in an arbitrary celestial location is frequently needed. However, existing all-sky astronomical catalogue do not reach this accuracy, and time consuming photometric calibration procedures are required. I fitted the Hipparcos B_T_, and V_T_ magnitudes, along with the 2MASS J, H, and K magnitudes of Tycho-2 catalog-stars with stellar spectral templates. From the best fit spectral template derived for each star, I calculated its synthetic SDSS griz magnitudes, and constructed an all-sky catalog of griz magnitudes of bright stars (V<12). Testing this method on SDSS photometric telescope observations, I find that the photometric accuracy, for a single star, is usually about 0.12, 0.12, 0.10 and 0.08 mag (1sigma), for the g, r, i, and z-bands, respectively. However, by using ~10 such stars, the typical errors per calibrated field (systematic + statistical) can be reduced to about 0.04, 0.03, 0.02, and 0.02 mag, in the g, r, i, and z-bands, respectively. Therefore, in cases for which several calibration stars can be observed in the field of view of an instrument, it is possible to photometrically calibrate the image.

Keywords
  1. Infrared sources
  2. Infrared photometry
  3. Optical astronomy
  4. Sloan photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2008PASP..120.1128O
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/PASP/120/1128
IVOA Identifier IVOID
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History

2009-01-01T21:09:21Z
Resource record created
2009-01-01T21:09:21Z
Created
2016-07-06T08:18:15Z
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