Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2011-11-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
15 pages, including 10 figures
Scientific paper
Photonic passbands have been derived for the uvby standard system by convolving the original filter passbands of Str\"omgren and Perry with atmospheric extinction and the QE of a cooled 1P21 photomultiplier tube. Using these new passbands, synthetic photometry was calculated for all the stars in the extensive NGSL and MILES spectrophotometric libraries and compared with the homogenised b-y, m1 and c1 indices in the Hauck-Mermilliod 1998 catalog and the derived u - v and v - b colors. Excellent agreement between observed and synthetic photometry was achieved with regression slopes near unity. Slightly better fits were obtained by considering stars with b-y < 0.5 and b-y > 0.5, separately. It is recommended that these new passbands be used together with the provided transformation equations to generate synthetic photometry from model atmosphere fluxes and observed spectrophotometry. Synthetic photometry was also carried out using the natural system of the 4-channel spectrograph-photometers and those of Cousins and Eggen in order to explore the systematic dfferences that could be expected between their instrumental systems and the standard system.
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