Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-01-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
56 pages, 14 figures, 14 tables
Scientific paper
10.1086/427737
The results from work done to extend the Johnson-Cousins BVRI photometric standard sequence to faint levels of V ~ 21 mag in compact fields is presented. Such calibration and extension of sequences is necessary to fill a calibration gap, if reliable photometry from modest aperture telescopes in space (e.g. HST), or terrestrial telescopes with apertures exceeding 4-m is to done. Sequences like the ones presented here, which cover a large range in brightness as well as color, will allow photometric calibration to be done efficiently, as well as for such work to be less prone to systematic sources of error. Photometry of stars in approximately 10 x 10 arc-minute fields around 3 globular clusters, NGC 2419, Pal 4 and Pal 14 are presented. In each field, several stars are measured in B, V, R and I passbands, with standard errors less than 0.015 mag from random errors, to levels fainter than V=21 mag. The primary context for the work presented here is that parts of these fields were observed repeatedly by the Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 WFPC2) of the HST, and thus these newly calibrated sequences can be used to retroactively calibrate WFPC2 at over various times of its operating life. The sequences presented here agree at the 0.02 mag level with other extant calibrations of these targets, except in the I band, where there are color dependent deviations of up to 0.05 mag versus one other photometric sequence. Possible causes for this discrepancy are examined.
Dolphin Andrew E.
Saha Avishek
Thim Frank
Whitmore Bradley
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