面向21世纪科学的光度校准
宇宙学与河外天体物理
2009-03-17 v1
摘要
天体物理学中基本科学问题的答案，从宇宙膨胀的历史到近邻恒星的尺寸，都取决于我们对各种天体进行精确测量的能力。随着我们对天体底层物理学的认识与探测器和仪器的进步同步提高，我们从测量中提取科学成果的能力极限，不再取决于我们对这些天体本质认识的缺乏，而是取决于所有问题中最平凡的一个：我们以物理单位校准观测的精度。我们强调需要实施一项计划，以改进并扩展现有的分光光度校准恒星网络，从而在紫外、可见和近红外波段提供精度等于或优于1%的精确校准，同时具备极佳的天空覆盖率和大的动态范围。
引用
@article{arxiv.0903.2799,
title = {Photometric Calibrations for 21st Century Science},
author = {Stephen Kent and Mary Elizabeth Kaiser and Susana E. Deustua and J. Allyn Smith and Saul Adelman and Sahar Allam and Brian Baptista and Ralph C. Bohlin and James L. Clem and Alex Conley and Jerry Edelstein and Jay Elias and Ian Glass and Arne Henden and Steve Howell and Randy A. Kimble and Jeffrey W. Kruk and Michael Lampton and Eugene A. Magnier and Stephan R. McCandliss and Warren Moos and Nick Mostek and Stuart Mufson and Terry D. Oswalt and Saul Perlmutter and Carlos Allende Prieto and Bernard J. Rauscher and Adam Riess and Abhijit Saha and Mark Sullivan and Nicholas Suntzeff and Alan Tokunaga and Douglas Tucker and Robert Wing and Bruce Woodgate and Edward L. Wright},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.2799},
year = {2009}
}
备注
8 pages, 6 figures Science white paper for the Astro2010 Decadal Survey