JHK Observations of Faint Standard Stars in the Mauna Kea Near-Infrared Photometric System

Details JHK Observations of Faint Standard Stars in the Mauna Kea Near-Infrared Photometric System JHK Observations of Faint Standard Stars in the Mauna Kea Near-Infrared Photometric System

2006-09-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0609461v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.373:781-792,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 14 pages, 5 Figures

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11069.x

JHK photometry in the Mauna Kea Observatory (MKO) near-IR system is presented for 115 stars. Of these, 79 are UKIRT standards and 42 are LCO standards. The average brightness is 11.5 mag, with a range of 10 to 15. The average number of nights each star was observed is 4, and the average of the internal error of the final results is 0.011 mag. These JHK data agree with those reported by other groups to 0.02 mag. The measurements are used to derive transformations between the MKO JHK photometric system and the UKIRT, LCO and 2MASS systems. The 2MASS-MKO data scatter by 0.05 mag for redder stars: 2MASS-J includes H2O features in dwarfs and MKO-K includes CO features in giants. Transformations derived for stars whose spectra contain only weak features cannot give accurate transformations for objects with strong absorption features within a filter bandpasses. We find evidence of systematic effects at the 0.02 mag level in the photometry of stars with J<11 and H,K<10.5. This is due to an underestimate of the linearity correction for stars observed with the shortest exposure times; very accurate photometry of stars approaching the saturation limits of infrared detectors which are operated in double-read mode is difficult to obtain. Four stars in the sample, GSPC S705-D, FS 116 (B216-b7), FS 144 (Ser-EC84) and FS 32 (Feige 108), may be variable. 84 stars in the sample have 11< J< 15 and 10.5

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