J/AJ/133/768   KPNO's UBVRI filter transmission characteristics (Landolt+, 2007)

Optical multicolor photometry of spectrophotometric standard stars. Landolt A.U., Uomoto A.K. <Astron. J., 133, 768-790 (2007)> =2007AJ....133..768L 2007AJ....133..768L
ADC_Keywords: Stars, standard ; Photometry, UBVRI ; Photometry, sensitivity functions Keywords: standards - stars: fundamental parameters - techniques: photometric Abstract: Photoelectric data on the Johnson-Kron-Cousins UBVRI broadband photometric system are provided for a set of stars that have been used as spectrophotometric standard stars for the Hubble Space Telescope. Description: The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) 1.3m telescope was scheduled for this program for 101 nights in the interval of 1985 September to 1991 June. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table4.dat 124 31 UBVRI Photometry of Spectrophotometric Standard Stars table5.dat 12 126 Transmission characteristics of the U filter in KPNO's UBVRI filter set J table6.dat 12 289 Transmission characteristics of the B filter in KPNO's UBVRI filter set J table7.dat 12 298 Transmission characteristics of the V filter in KPNO's UBVRI filter set J table8.dat 12 485 Transmission characteristics of the R filter in KPNO's UBVRI filter set J table9.dat 12 515 Transmission characteristics of the I filter in KPNO's UBVRI filter set J -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 15 A15 --- Star Star name 17- 18 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000.0) 20- 21 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000.0) 23- 24 I2 s RAs Right ascension (J2000.0) 26 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000.0) 27- 28 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000.0) 30- 31 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000.0) 33- 34 I2 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000.0) 36- 41 F6.3 mag Vmag Landolt V magnitude 43- 48 F6.3 mag B-V Landolt B-V colour index 50- 55 F6.3 mag U-B Landolt U-B colour index 57- 62 F6.3 mag V-R Landolt V-R colour index 64- 69 F6.3 mag R-I Landolt R-I colour index 71- 76 F6.3 mag V-I Landolt V-I colour index 78- 79 I2 --- n Number of observations 81- 82 I2 --- m Number of night of observations 84- 89 F6.4 mag e_Vmag rms uncertainty on Vmag 91- 96 F6.4 mag e_B-V rms uncertainty on B-V 98-103 F6.4 mag e_U-B rms uncertainty on B-V 105-110 F6.4 mag e_V-R rms uncertainty on V-R 112-117 F6.4 mag e_R-I rms uncertainty on R-I 119-124 F6.4 mag e_V-I rms uncertainty on V-I -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Byte-by-byte Description of file: table[56789].dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 5 I5 0.1nm lambda Wavelength in Angstroms 7- 12 F6.3 % Trans Transmission percentage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- History: From electronic version of the journal
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 08-Jan-2009
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