UBVRI PHOTOMETRIC STANDARD STARS AROUND THE CELESTIAL EQUATOR: UPDATES AND ADDITIONS

By A. Landolt. 2009

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New broadband UBVRI photoelectric observations on the Johnson–Kron–Cousins photometric system have been made of 202 stars around the sky, and centered at the celestial equator. These stars constitute both an update of and additions to a previously published list of equatorial photometric standard stars. The list is capable of providing, for both celestial hemispheres, an internally consistent homogeneous broadband standard photometric system around the sky. When these new measurements are included with those previously published by Landolt (1992), the entire list of standard stars in this paper encompasses the magnitude range 8.90 < V < 16.30, and the color index range −0.35 < (B − V) < +2.30.

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PROBING THE OUTER GALACTIC HALO WITH RR LYRAE FROM THE CATALINA SURVEYS (2012, background): “…centered near declination −50◦ in the magnitude range 10.4 V 15.5 and in the color index †† http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/css/ range −0.33 (B−V ) 1.66, while Landolt (2009) provides a catalog of 202 standard stars along the celestial equator in the magnitude range 8.90 V 16.30, and the…”
COMPREHENSIVE PHOTOMETRIC HISTORIES OF ALL KNOWN GALACTIC RECURRENT NOVAE (2009, background): “Even then, it took many years for useful and accurate standard stars to be determined (Landolt 1973; 1983; 1992) and for RNe sequences to be measured (e.g., Kilkenny et al. 1993; Henden & Munari 2006).”
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CATALOG OF 93 NOVA LIGHT CURVES: CLASSIFICATION AND PROPERTIES (2010, positive): “For professional astronomers used to photoelectric or CCD magnitudes with real uncertainties of 0.015 mag for a single measure even for good photon statistics (Landolt 1992; 2009), the visual accuracy sounds poor.”
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