English
Related papers

Related papers: The UKIRT Wide Field Camera ZYJHK Photometric Syst…

200 papers

In this paper we describe the routine photometric calibration of data taken with the VIRCAM instrument on the ESO VISTA telescope. The broadband ZYJHKs data are directly calibrated from 2MASS point sources visible in every VISTA image. We…

The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey is a set of five surveys of complementary combinations of area, depth, and Galactic latitude, which began in 2005 May. The surveys use the UKIRT Wide Field Camera (WFCAM), which has a solid angle of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Paul C. Hewett , Stephen J. Warren , Sandy K. Leggett , Simon T. Hodgkin

The currently defined "UKIRT Faint Standards" have JHK magnitudes between 10 and 15, with K_median=11.2. These stars will be too bright for the next generation of large telescopes. We have used multi-epoch observations taken as part of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 S. K. Leggett , Nicholas J. G. Cross , Nigel C. Hambly

We present our deep $Y$-band imaging data of a two square degree field within the F22 region of the VIMOS VLT Deep Survey. The observations were conducted using the WIRCam instrument mounted at the Canada--France--Hawaii Telescope (CFHT).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-22 Dezi Liu , Jinyi Yang , Shuo Yuan , Xue-bing Wu , Zuhui Fan , Huanyuan Shan , Haojing Yan , Xianzhong Zheng

We present high-precision JHK photometry with the 3.8m UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) of 83 standard stars, 28 from the widely used preliminary list known as the "UKIRT Faint Standards" (Casali & Hawarden, 1992), referred to here as the…

Element-by-element we have combined the optical components in the three 2MASS cameras, and incorporated detector quantum efficiency curves and site-specific atmospheric transmissions, to create three relative spectral response curves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Martin Cohen , Wm. A. Wheaton , S. T. Megeath

We present the photometric calibration of the Swift UltraViolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) which includes: optimum photometric and background apertures, effective area curves, colour transformations, conversion factors for count rates to…

From 1991 until 1997, the 3.8m UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) underwent a programme of upgrades aimed at improving its intrinsic optical performance. This resulted in images with a FWHM of 0."17 at 2.2 um in September 1998. To understand and…

We present the absolute flux and wavelength calibration of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) Wide Field Slitless Spectroscopy (WFSS) mode. Each of NIRCam's two modules (A and B) provides independent long…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-19 Nor Pirzkal , Martha Boyer , Russel E. Ryan

It's safe to say that UKIRT's contribution to star formation at near-infrared, mid-infrared, and even sub-millimetre wavelengths has been considerable. From the early days of single-detector photometers, through the development of 2-D…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-16 Christopher J. Davis

In order for Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) and other Stage IV dark energy experiments (e.g., Large Synoptic Survey Telescope; LSST, and Euclid) to infer cosmological parameters not limited by systematic errors, accurate…

The determination of galaxy redshifts in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)'s blank-field surveys will mostly rely on photometric estimates, based on the data provided by JWST's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) at 0.6-5.0 {\mu}m and Mid…

Many scientific goals for the Dark Energy Survey (DES) require calibration of optical/NIR broadband $b = grizY$ photometry that is stable in time and uniform over the celestial sky to one percent or better. It is also necessary to limit to…

An accurate geometric distortion solution for the Hubble Space Telescope UVIS-channel of Wide Field Camera 3 is the first step towards its use for high precision astrometry. In this work we present an average correction that enables a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Bellini , L. R. Bedin

The Far-Infrared Surveyor (FIS) onboard the AKARI satellite has a spectroscopic capability provided by a Fourier transform spectrometer (FIS-FTS). FIS-FTS is the first space-borne imaging FTS dedicated to far-infrared astronomical…

The VDFS comprises the system to pipeline process and archive the data from infrared observations taken by both the WFCAM instrument on UKIRT and the forthcoming VISTA telescope. These include the largest near-IR surveys to date, such as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-02 Nicholas Cross , Nigel Hambly , Ross Collins , Mike Read , Eckhard Sutorius

The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) is the first of a new generation of hemispheric imaging projects to extend the work of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) by reaching three magnitudes deeper in YJHK imaging, to K=18.2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kuenley Chiu , Gordon T. Richards , Paul C. Hewett , Natasha Maddox

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated time-domain multi-band ($u$, $g$, $r$, $i$, and $z$) photometric survey facility under construction. In this paper, we present a preliminary study that assesses the quality of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-06 Yu Liu , Xiao-zhi Lin , Yong-quan Xue , Huynh Anh N. Le

Near-infrared bandpasses on spaceborne observatories diverge from their ground-based counterparts as they are free of atmospheric telluric absorption. Available transformations between respective filter systems in the literature rely on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-12 M. J. Durbin , R. L. Beaton , A. J. Monson , B. Swidler , J. J. Dalcanton

The Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) is one of three instruments onboard the Swift observatory. The photometric calibration has been published, and this paper follows up with details on other aspects of the calibration including a…

‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›