The quality of photometric information in the HIPPARCOS Input Catalog

Details The quality of photometric information in the HIPPARCOS Input Catalog The quality of photometric information in the HIPPARCOS Input Catalog

Jun 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993aj....105.2344c&link_type=abstract

Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 105, no. 6, p. 2344-2352.

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Astronomical Catalogs, Hipparcos Satellite, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Stellar Color, Stellar Magnitude

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Comparison with independent photoelectric photometry is used to assess the quality of magnitudes and colors in the Hipparcos Input Catalog. These magnitudes and colors will play an important role in the luminosity calibration of Hipparcos stars. We conclude that photoelectric photometry, available for about 37 percent of the catalog, is of uniformly good quality, and the error estimates in the Catalog are very accurate. On the other hand, colors determined from poor spectral classes suffer from very significant errors, also correctly estimated in the Catalog, which make them essentially unsuited for the purpose of luminosity calibration. Only stars with either photoelectric colors or good 2D spectral classes can be used in a high-accuracy luminosity calibration.

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