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WFC3/HST photometric calibration: color terms for the ultra-violet filters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2020

Annalisa Calamida*
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD21218, USA email: acalamida@stsci.edu
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Color term corrections for magnitudes measured on the UVIS2 relative to the UVIS1 detector of the WFC3 camera on board Hubble Space Telescope are needed for three ultra-violet filters, namely F218W, F225W, and F275W. The two WFC3 detectors have different quantum efficiencies in the ultra-violet regime (λ < 4,000 Å), resulting in different count rate ratios as a function of the spectral type of the source. In the worst case, for cool red sources measured on UVIS2, there is a magnitude offset relative to UVIS1 up to ∼ 0.08 mag, while the offset is negligible for hot (Teff ≳ 30,000 K) blue sources.

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