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In preparation for James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a set of cross calibration programs with HST and Spitzer for suitable primary photometric standards and astrometric fields were developed. NICMOS/HST and IRAC/Spitzer photometry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rosa I. Diaz-Miller

We present the calibration of the [$\alpha/$Fe] element in terms of ultra-violet excess for 465 dwarf stars with spectral type F0-K2. We used a single calibration, fitted to a third degree polynomial with a square of the correlation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-13 E. Yaz Gokce , S. Bilir , S. Karaali , O. Plevne

Brown dwarfs are failed stars with very low mass (13 to 75 $M_J$), and an effective temperature lower than 2500 K. Thus, they play a key role in understanding the gap in the mass function between stars and planets. However, due to their…

We present uniformly measured resolved stellar photometry and star formation histories (SFHs) for 36 nearby ($\lesssim$ 400 kpc) ultra-faint dwarf galaxies (UFDs; $-7.1 \le M_V \le +0.0$) from new and archival HST imaging. We measure…

We present the updated design of HighSpec, a high-resolution $\mathcal{R} \sim 20,000$ spectrograph designed for the Multi Aperture Spectroscopic Telescope (MAST). HighSpec offers three observing modes centered at the Ca II H&K, Mg b…

White dwarfs represent the most common end stage of stellar evolution and are important for a range of astrophysical questions. The high-resolution ultraviolet spectroscopic capability of the Habitable World Observatory (HWO) offers a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Siyi Xu , Martin Barstow , Andy Buchan , Érika Le Bourdais , Patrick Dufour

We carried out low resolution spectroscopic observations in the wavelength range 3400-4700 A of 20 He-weak and 8 He-strong stars to determine their fundamental parameters by means of the Divan-Chalonge-Barbier (BCD) spectrophotometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. S. Cidale , M. L. Arias , A. F. Torres , J. Zorec , Y. Frémat , A. Cruzado

We report Spitzer 3.6 and 4.5 $\mu$m photometry of 11 bright stars relative to Sirius, exploiting the unique optical stability of the Spitzer Space Telescope point spread function (PSF). Spitzer's extremely stable beryllium optics in its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-12 Kate Y. L. Su , G. H. Rieke , M. Marengo , Everett Schlawin

We present the results of a medium resolution optical spectroscopic survey of 92 cool ($3,000 \lesssim T_{\rm eff} \lesssim 4,500\,$K) southern TESS candidate planet hosts, and describe our spectral fitting methodology used to recover…

We have characterized 26 Spitzer/IRAC-selected sources from the SMUVS program that are undetected in the UltraVISTA DR5 H- and/or Ks-band images, covering 94 square arcmin of the COSMOS field which have deep multiwavelength JWST photometry.…

In this paper, we report white dwarfs identified in the 5th Data Release of the Large Area Multi-Object fibre Spectroscopic Telescope, including spectral types of DA, DB, DC, DZ, and so on. There are 2 625 DA spectra of 2 281 DA stars, 182…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 Jincheng Guo , Jingkun Zhao , Huawei Zhang , Jiajun Zhang , Yu Bai , Nikolay Walters , Yong Yang , Jifeng Liu

We increase the spectroscopic completeness of the 100 pc white dwarf sample in the SDSS footprint with 840 additional spectra. Our spectroscopy is 86% complete for white dwarfs hotter than $T_{\rm eff}= 5000$ K, where H$\alpha$ remains…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 Mukremin Kilic , Pierre Bergeron , Simon Blouin , Adam Moss , Warren R. Brown , Antoine Bedard , Gracyn Jewett , Marcel A. Agueros

We present deep H$\alpha$ imaging of three nearby dwarf galaxies, carefully selected to optimize observations with the Maryland-Magellan Tunable Filter (MMTF) on the Magellan 6.5m telescope. An effective bandpass of $\sim$13\AA\ is used,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Janice C. Lee , Sylvain Veilleux , Michael McDonald , Bryan Hilbert

High-precision photometric standard stars play a key role in enabling accurate photometric calibration and advancing various fields of astronomy. However, due to limitations in calibration methods and the limited availability and underuse…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-12 Kai Xiao , Yang Huang , Haibo Yuan , Bowen Huang , Dongwei Fan , Timothy C. Beers , Zhirui Li , Henggeng Han , Qiqian Zhang , Tao Wang , Mingyang Ma , Yuanchang Wang , Shuai Xu , Lin Yang , Jifeng Liu

We present calibrations for star formation rate indicators in the ultraviolet, mid-infrared and radio continuum bands, including one of the first direct calibrations of 150 MHz as a star formation rate indicator. Our calibrations utilize 66…

We present mid-infrared photometry of 124 white dwarf stars with Spitzer Space Telescope. Objects were observed simultaneously at 4.5 and 8.0um with sensitivities better than 1 mJy. This data can be used to test models of white dwarf…

The Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is a dedicated photometric surveying facility being built jointly by the University of Science and Technology of China and the Purple Mountain Observatory. It is equipped with a 2.5-meter diameter…

New far-infrared and sub-millimeter photometry from the Herschel Space Observatory is presented for 61 nearby galaxies from the Key Insights on Nearby Galaxies: A Far-Infrared Survey with Herschel (KINGFISH) sample. The spatially-integrated…

We present spectra for 33 previously unclassified white dwarf systems brighter than V = 17 primarily in the southern hemisphere. Of these new systems, 26 are DA, 4 are DC, 2 are DZ, and 1 is DQ. We suspect three of these systems are…

The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph has measured the absolute flux for Vega from 0.17-1.01 microns on the HST White Dwarf flux scale. These data are saturated by up to a factor of 80 overexposure but retain linearity to a precision of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 R. C. Bohlin , R. L. Gilliland