Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003aas...20311605s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 203, #116.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 35, p.1397
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present UBVRI photometry of stars in the nearby Local Group galaxy M33, obtained by imaging with the Kitt Peak 4-m telescope and MOSAIC camera as part of our Local Group Galaxies survey. To obtain this photometry, we have been developing and strengthening routines that can search through images and automatically photometer these stars using point-spread-function fitting. The routines split the image into its corresponding eight CCD chips and then do automated photometry on each chip separately, so that separate color transformations can be applied in a chip-by-chip manner. Our calibration data comes from images obtained on the Lowell 1.1-m Hall telescope on Anderson Mesa, obtained on numerous pristine photometric nights. Once calibrated, our Mosaic photometry values are averaged, and a complete catalogue of positions and photometry (with errors) is obtained. In the end, we have a list of several hundred thousand stars with magnitudes and colors. These data can be used to analyze the stellar populations in M33, one of our closest neighbors. We will briefly describe our procedure, and present the first HR diagrams from our data. This work has been supported by the NSF under grant AST0093060.
Massey Pedro
Schlingman Wayne M.
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