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Passbands and Photometric Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

F. Rufener*
Affiliation:
Geneva Observatory, CH-1290 SAUVERNY, Switzerland

Abstract

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Synthetic photometry must be used to accurately define the passbands which characterize a photometric system. On the one hand, the colour indices of the stars must be coherent with their absolute spectrophotometry; on the other hand, direct comparisons of model atmospheres with observations must be carried out without resorting to arbitrary transformations. A systematic evaluation procedure could be applied to various photometric systems.

Type
Synthetic Photometry
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986

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