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JHKLM photometry - Standard systems, passbands, and intrinsic colors

1988/09/01 by M. S. Bessell, J. M. Brett · 2,108 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing #Astrophysics #Black-body radiation #Calibration and Measurement Techniques #Optics #Photometric system #Photometry (optics) #Physics #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Wavelength

paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/132281

published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 100, 1134 (Institute of Physics)

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Abstract

The relations between colors of the JHKL systems of several observatories are examined, and linear relations are derived for transformation between the (J-K), (J-H), (H-K), and (K-L) colors in the different systems. A homogenized system is proposed, based on the systems of Glass (1984) and Johnson et al. (1966). The homogenized data sets are used to derive intrinsic colors for a number of giants and dwarfs. The passbands of several IR systems are estimated and the synthetic colors of the systems are compared using blackbody and stellar fluxes. The passbands were adjusted in wavelength to produce agreement with observed relations between different systems, making it possible to estimate the effective wavelengths of the different natural systems.

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