Calibration of the BATC survey: Methodology and accuracy

H Yan, D Burstein, X Fan, Z Zheng… - Publications of the …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe in detail the extinction correction procedures used for the Beijing‐Arizona‐
Taiwan‐Connecticut Sky Survey (BATC Survey). The survey covers the spectral range 3200 …

Astronomical observing conditions at the Xinglong Station in 1995–2001

Y Liu, X Zhou, WH Sun, J Ma, H Wu… - Publications of the …, 2003 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper summarizes the measurements of astronomical observing conditions with a fixed
pointing to the North Pole over 6 years at the Xinglong Station, where the BATC Multicolor …

Faint BVRI photometric sequences in selected fields

A Saha, AE Dolphin, F Thim… - Publications of the …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Revised filter profiles and zero points for broadband photometry

AW Mann, K von Braun - … of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Estimating accurate bolometric fluxes for stars requires reliable photometry to absolutely flux
calibrate the spectra. This is a significant problem for studies of very bright stars, which are …

Improved CCD standard fields

SC Odewahn, C Bryja… - Publications of the …, 1992 - iopscience.iop.org
We have combined multiple nights of charge-coupled device (CCD) observations of NGC
7790, NGC 7006, and NGC 4147 in order to establish a deep sequence of photometric …

Calibration of BVRI Photometry for the Wide Field Channel of the HST Advanced Camera for Surveys

A Saha, RA Shaw, JA Claver… - Publications of the …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new observations of two Galactic globular clusters, PAL4 and PAL14, using the
Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on board the Hubble Space …

On improving IR photometric passbands

AT Young, EF Milone, CR Stagg - International Astronomical Union …, 1993 - cambridge.org
The passbands of the Johnson JHKL broadband photometric system used at a number of
major observatories have been compared to the atmospheric window transmissions …

A revised characterization of the WFPC2 CTE loss

AE Dolphin - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Charge transfer loss on the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard the Hubble
Space Telescope is a primary source of uncertainty in stellar photometry obtained with this …

The Spectrum of the Night Sky over Mount Hopkins and Kitt Peak: Changes after a Decade1

P Massey, CB Foltz - Publications of the Astronomical Society of …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT Recent (1998–1999) absolute spectrophotometry of the night sky over two
southern Arizona astronomical sites, Kitt Peak and Mount Hopkins, is compared to similar …

Tests of photometry: the case of the NGC 3370 ACS field

IS Jang - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A critical analysis and comparison of different methods for obtaining point
spread function (PSF) photometry are carried out. Deep ACS observations of NGC 3370 …