Southern Spectrophotometric Standards. I

We have obtained new observations of both secondary and tertiary spectrophotometric standards with the RC spectrographs and charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras on the 1.5-m and 4-m telescopes at CTIO in the wavelength range 3300-7550 Å, as well as UBV(RI)KC photometry for these stars. We have modifi...

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Published inPublications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 104; no. 677; pp. 533 - 552
Main Authors Hamuy, Mario, Walker, A. R., Suntzeff, N. B., Gigoux, P., Heathcote, S. R., Phillips, M. M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago, IL American Institute of Physics 01.07.1992
University of Chicago Press
Subjects
Astrometry and reference systems
Astronomical magnitude
Astronomical photometry
Astronomy
Calibration
Earth, ocean, space
Exact sciences and technology
Fundamental astronomy
Fundamental astronomy and astrophysics. Instrumentation, techniques, and astronomical observations
Observational astronomy
Spectrophotometry
Standard stars
Stars
Stellar spectra
Telescopes
Wavelengths
Southern Hemisphere
Reference star
Data table
CCD camera
Flux density
Spectrophotometry
Spectroscopical observation
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Summary:We have obtained new observations of both secondary and tertiary spectrophotometric standards with the RC spectrographs and charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras on the 1.5-m and 4-m telescopes at CTIO in the wavelength range 3300-7550 Å, as well as UBV(RI)KC photometry for these stars. We have modified the monochromatic fluxes of the secondary spectrophotometric standards published by Taylor (1984) according to the new calibration of Vega provided by Hayes (1985). We have also tuned the zero point of the energy distribution of these stars by matching their V synthetic magnitudes to the observed magnitudes. We use these adjusted spectrophotometric standards in order to calculate new fluxes for the tertiary standards of Stone and Baldwin (1983), as well as for three stars of the northern hemisphere from Stone (1977). We find that the synthetic magnitudes calculated from our spectra through the B and V bands agree extremely well with our photometry, to better than 1% on average. For the monochromatic fluxes, we find an internal precision better than 0.01 mag at all wavelengths, and a fair agreement with previous measurements of the tertiary standards. We present also a fine grid of averaged monochromatic fluxes (at continuous steps of 16 Å) for the ten secondary standards selected for our program, to be used in the flux calibration of high-dispersion spectra.
ISSN:0004-6280
1538-3873