New Faint Optical Spectrophotometric Standards. Hot White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Details New Faint Optical Spectrophotometric Standards. Hot White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey New Faint Optical Spectrophotometric Standards. Hot White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2009-03-13

arxiv.org/abs/0903.2420v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

15 pages, 8 figures (some in color), to appear in MNRAS

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The spectral energy distributions for pure-hydrogen (DA) hot white dwarfs can be accurately predicted by model atmospheres. This makes it possible to define spectrophotometric calibrators by scaling the theoretical spectral shapes with broad-band photometric observations -- a strategy successfully exploited for the spectrographs onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) using three primary DA standards. Absolute fluxes for non-DA secondary standards, introduced to increase the density of calibrators in the sky, need to be referred to the primary standards, but a far better solution would be to employ a network of DA stars scattered throughout the sky. We search for blue objects in the sixth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and fit DA model fluxes to identify suitable candidates. Reddening needs to be considered in the analysis of the hottest and therefore more distant stars. We propose a list of nine pure-hydrogen white dwarfs with absolute fluxes with estimated uncertainties below 3%, including four objects with estimated errors <2%, as candidates for spectrophotometric standards in the range 14

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