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Title

An atlas of spectrophotometric landolt standard stars

Author(s)

Stritzinger, Maximilian;  Suntzeff, Nicholas B.;  Hamuy, Mario;  Challis, Peter;  Demarco, Ricardo;  Germany, Lisa M.;  Soderberg, A.M.

Abstract

We present CCD observations of 102 Landolt standard stars obtained with the Ritchey-Chrétien spectrograph on the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory 1.5 m telescope. Using stellar atmosphere models, we have extended the flux points to our six spectrophotometric secondary standards, in both the blue and the red, allowing us to produce flux-calibrated spectra that span a wavelength range from 3050 Å to 1.1 µm. Mean differences between UBVRI spectrophotometry computed using Bessell's standard passbands and Landolt's published photometry were determined to be 1% or less. Observers in both hemispheres will find these spectra useful for flux-calibrating spectra, and through the use of accurately constructed instrumental passbands, will be able to compute accurate corrections to bring instrumental magnitudes to any desired standard photometric system (S-corrections). In addition, by combining empirical and modeled spectra of the Sun, Sirius, and Vega, we calculate and compare synthetic photometry to observed photometry taken from the literature for these three stars.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies

Source

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 117, no. 834 (2005), pp. 810-822

Publication year

2005

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

ISSN

0004-6280

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/431468

Copyright

Copyright © 2005 The Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Published version of the paper reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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