The Locus of Stars, Galaxies, and QSOs. in SDSS Filters

Details The Locus of Stars, Galaxies, and QSOs. in SDSS Filters The Locus of Stars, Galaxies, and QSOs. in SDSS Filters

Dec 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997aas...19110809n&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, 191st AAS Meeting, #108.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 29, p.1385

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

1

Scientific paper

We present a catalog of over 2000 stars, QSOs, and galaxies in five optical passbands (u*, g*, r*, i*, and z*) that will be used by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The sources are brighter than 19.5 in r* (which is similar to Gunn r), and were selected from 15 fields covering half a square degree; about half of the objects have a measured u* flux. The statistical error in the photometry is typically a few percent. The systematic error is less than about 10 percent. The data was obtained on the USNO 1-m in Flagstaff, Arizona. The positions of the stars in color space are compared with Kurucz model stars, and show quite good agreement. The stellar locus, as well as the Kurucz model fits, show that the locus is shaped like a ribbon winding through color-color-color space, as discovered by Newberg and Yanny (1997). The catalog will be used to tune selection algorithms that will select spectroscopic targets from the phometric data produced by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

The Locus of Stars, Galaxies, and QSOs. in SDSS Filters does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with The Locus of Stars, Galaxies, and QSOs. in SDSS Filters, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and The Locus of Stars, Galaxies, and QSOs. in SDSS Filters will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1177568