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Calibration of Photometric Systems from Homogeneous Spectrophotometric Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Lukas Labhardt  and
Roland Buser
Lukas Labhardt
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, University of Basel
Roland Buser
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute, University of Basel

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The atlas of stellar spectrophotometric data published by Gunn and Stryker (GS, 1983) constitutes an extremely valuable tool for the evaluation and calibration of photometric systems. The resolution of the scanner fluxes (10 or 20 Å), given for a broad wavelength range (λλ 3160–10620 Å) and the systematic coverage of stellar types are (almost) ideal for calculating synthetic colors for Becker's (1946) photographic RGU system which has been extensively applied in galactic structure work (cf. Buser 1981). Since RGU photometry is tightly linked to UBV data (Steinlin 1968, Buser 1978b), the Gunn-Stryker atlas has been used in the present paper to evaluate these two systems and subsequently investigate the resulting calibration of the RGU colors in terms of MK spectral classification.

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Research Article
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 111: Calibration of Fundamental Stellar Quantities , 1985 , pp. 519 - 521
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Copyright © Reidel 1985 

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