The purpose of this paper is to present a method to self-calibrate the spectral energy distribution (SED) of objects in a survey based on the fitting of an SED library to the observed multi-color photometry. We adopt for illustrative purposes the Vilnius (Strizyz and Sviderskiene 1972) and Gunn & Stryker (1983) SED libraries. The self-calibration technique can improve the quality of observations which are not taken under perfectly photometric conditions. The more passbands used for the photometry, the better the results. This technique has been applied to the BATC 15-passband CCD survey.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9903079,
title = {A Calibration Method for Wide Field Multicolor Photometric System},
author = {Xu Zhou and Jian-sheng Chen and Wen Xu and Mei Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9903079},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
LateX file, 1 PS file, submitted to PASP number 99-025 The English has been improved and some mistakes have been corrected