Spectral Irradiance Calibration in the Infrared. XIV: the Absolute Calibration of 2MASS

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2003-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304350v2

Astron.J. 126 (2003) 1090

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

25 pages, Latex, AASTEX5 macros. Revised Table 2 includes updated estimates of some uncertainties

Scientific paper

10.1086/376474

Element-by-element we have combined the optical components in the three 2MASS cameras, and incorporated detector quantum efficiency curves and site-specific atmospheric transmissions, to create three relative spectral response curves (RSRs). We provide absolute 2MASS attributes associated with "zero magnitude" in the JHKs bands so that these RSRs may be used for synthetic photometry. The RSRs tie 2MASS to the Cohen-Walker-Witteborn framework of absolute photometry and spectra for the purpose of using 2MASS data to support the development of absolute calibrators for IRAC and pairwise cross-calibrators between all three SIRTF instruments. We examine the robustness of these RSRs to changes in water vapor within a night. We compare the observed 2MASS magnitudes of 33 stars (converted from the precision optical calibrators of Landolt and Carter-Meadows into absolute infrared calibrators from 1.2-35 um with our predictions, thereby deriving 2MASS "zero point offsets" from the ensemble. These offsets are the final ingredients essential to merge 2MASS $JHK_{s}$ data with other absolutely calibrated bands and stellar spectra, and to support the creation of faint calibration stars for SIRTF.

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