Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-8-2007

Keywords

Stars: late-type, Stars: low-mass, Brown dwarfs, Surveys

Abstract

We present a new set of photometric transformations for red stars observed with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) 0.5 m Photometric Telescope (PT) and the SDSS 2.5 m telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico. Nightly PT observations of US Naval Observatory standards are used to determine extinction corrections and calibration terms for SDSS 2.5 m photometry. Systematic differences between the PT and native SDSS 2.5 m ugriz photometry require conversions between the two systems which have previously been undefined for the reddest stars. By matching ~43,000 stars observed with both the PT and SDSS 2.5 m, we extend the present relations to include low-mass stars with colors 0.6 ≤ r - i ≤ 1.7. These corrections will allow us to place photometry of bright, low-mass trigonometric parallax stars previously observed with the PT on the 2.5 m system. We present new transformation equations and discuss applications of these data to future low-mass star studies using the SDSS.

Publication Title

The Astronomical Journal

Volume

134

Issue

6

First Page

2430

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/522054

Required Publisher's Statement

Published 2007 November 8 • © 2007. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Link to the journal article: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/522054

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/522054

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Brown dwarf stars--Observations; Astronomical photometry; Astronomical instruments--Calibration

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articles

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Text

Language

English

Format

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