Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-12-08
Astrophys.J.Suppl. 126 (2000) 517-536
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Submitted to ApJ Supplement, 35 pages, 13 figures, LaTeX - AASTEX aas2pp4.sty
Scientific paper
10.1086/313298
While the low dispersion IUE NEWSIPS data products represent a significant improvement over original IUE SIPS data, they still contain serious systematic effects which compromise their utility for certain applications. We show that NEWSIPS low resolution data are internally consistent to only 10-15% at best, with the majority of the problem due to time dependent systematic effects. In addition, the NEWSIPS flux calibration is shown to be inconsistent by nearly 10%. We examine the origin of these problems and proceed to formulate and apply algorithms to correct them to ~ 3% level -- a factor of 5 improvement in accuracy. Because of the temporal systematics, transforming the corrected data to the IUE flux calibration becomes ambiguous. Therefore, we elect to transform the corrected data onto the HST FOS system. This system is far more self-consistent, and transforming the IUE data to it places data from both telescopes on a single system. Finally, we argue that much of the remaining 3% systematic effects in the corrected data is traceable to problems with the NEWSIPS intensity transformation function (ITF). The accuracy could probably be doubled by rederiving the ITF.
Fitzpatrick Edward L.
Massa Derck
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