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RCSEDv2: analytic approximations of k-corrections for galaxies out to redshift $z=1$

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2021-12-10 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

To compare photometric properties of galaxies at different redshifts, we need to correct fluxes for the change of effective rest-frame wavelengths of filter bandpasses, called kk-corrections. At redshifts z>0.3z>0.3, the wavelength shift becomes so large that typical broadband photometric bands shift into the neighboring rest frame band. At z=0.60.8z=0.6-0.8 the shift reaches two or even three bands. Therefore, we need perform kk-corrections from one observed bandpass to another. Here we expand the methodology proposed by Chilingarian et al. (2010) and fit cross-band kk-corrections by smooth low-order polynomial functions of one observed color and a redshift - this approach but without cross-band is implemented as standard functions in {\sc topcat}, which can be used for galaxies at z<0.5z<0.5. We also computed analytic approximations for WISE bands, which were not available in the past. We now have a complete set of kk-corrections coefficients, which allow us to process photometric measurements for galaxies out to redshift z=1z=1. We calculated standard and cross-band kk-corrections for about 4 million galaxies in second Reference Catalog of Spectral Energy Distributions (RCSEDv2) of galaxies and we showed that, in cases of widely used UV, optical and near-infrared filters, our analytic approximations work very well and can be used for extragalactic data from future wide-field surveys.

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@article{arxiv.2112.04864,
  title  = {RCSEDv2: analytic approximations of k-corrections for galaxies out to redshift $z=1$},
  author = {Anastasia Kasparova and Igor Chilingarian and Sviatoslav Borisov and Vladimir Goradzhanov and Kirill Grishin and Ivan Katkov and Vladislav Klochkov and Evgenii Rubtsov and Victoria Toptun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.04864},
  year   = {2021}
}

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4 pages, 2 figure; to appear in the proceedings of the XXXI Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) conference (published by ASP)