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. visible-astronomy
  4. sloan-photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2008PASP..120.1128O
See also HTML
https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/PASP/120/1128
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/120/1128

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History

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

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