Color Transformations for the 2MASS Second Incremental Data Release

By J. Carpenter. 2001

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Transformation equations are presented to convert colors and magnitudes measured in the AAO, ARNICA, CIT, DENIS, ESO, LCO (Persson standards), MSSSO, SAAO, and UKIRT photometric systems to the photometric system inherent in the 2MASS Second Incremental Data Release. The transformations have been derived by comparing 2MASS photometry with published magnitudes and colors for stars observed in these systems. Transformation equations have also been derived indirectly for the Bessell & Brett and Koornneef homogenized photometric systems.

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A comparison of chemistry and dust cloud formation in ultracool dwarf model atmospheres (2008, background): “Note that Carpenter (2001) provides transformation formula for the 2MASS colours into a number of different photometric systems (also Hewett et al. 2006).”
Herbig Ae/Be Stars in nearby OB Associations (2004, methodology): “The dereddened 2MASS colors were converted into the standard CIT systems using the transformations from Carpenter (2001).”
First stars V - Abundance patterns from C to Zn and supernova yields in the early Galaxy (2003, methodology): “The 2MASS J-K and V-K indices were transformed onto the TCS (Telescopio Carlos Sanchez) system through the ESO system (Carpenter 2001), since Alonso et al. use this system for these colours.”
STELLAR DIAMETERS AND TEMPERATURES. III. MAIN-SEQUENCE A, F, G, AND K STARS: ADDITIONAL HIGH-PRECISION MEASUREMENTS AND EMPIRICAL RELATIONS (2013, methodology): “As such, to make the comparison of the visual to infrared colors (V − J, V −H,V −K; bottom six panels in Figure 20), the infrared magnitudes of the Anthology stars were transformed to the 2MASS system by the expressions in Bessell & Brett (1988) and Carpenter (2001).”
The Effective Temperatures and Physical Properties of Magellanic Cloud Red Supergiants: The Effects of Metallicity (2006, result): “This is in accordance with the transformation given by Carpenter (2001), who finds that K ¼ KS þ 0:044 for 2MASS data.”
THE CHEMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE DRACO DWARF SPHEROIDAL GALAXY (2009, methodology): “The IR photometry is taken from 2MASS (Skrutskie et al. 1997; Cutri et al. 2003), and is transformed from the 2MASS system to the Johnson-Bessell system using the results of Carpenter (2001).”
HOW TO CONSTRAIN YOUR M DWARF: MEASURING EFFECTIVE TEMPERATURE, BOLOMETRIC LUMINOSITY, MASS, AND RADIUS (2015, methodology): “We converted our synthetic KS magnitudes to CIT K magnitudes using the corrections in Carpenter (2001), i.e., a shift of 0.02 mag.”
MAPPING THE SHORES OF THE BROWN DWARF DESERT. II. MULTIPLE STAR FORMATION IN TAURUS–AURIGA (2011, background): “(2008), and treated the conversion between different K filters (K ′ versus Ks) as negligible (e.g. Carpenter 2001) compared to the intrinsic uncertainties in relative photometry for AO observations (∼0.03-0.05 mag).”
NEAR-INFRARED METALLICITIES, RADIAL VELOCITIES, AND SPECTRAL TYPES FOR 447 NEARBY M DWARFS (2013, methodology): “These diagrams are plotted in the 2MASS photometric system; we used the color transformations updated7 from Carpenter (2001) to transform the colors from Bessell & Brett (1988) to the 2MASS system.”
The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) (2006, background): “Carpenter (2001) compared the colors of stars observed by both telescopes and found no significant differences in observed colors between the two observatories.”
Absolute Calibration and Characterization of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer. I. The Stellar Calibrator Sample and the 24 μm Calibration (2007, methodology): “To compute the offset between the Johnson et al. (1966) magnitudes and 2MASS, we transform the measurements to the 2MASS system using the equations derived by Carpenter (2001) for the Koornneef (1983) system, which is most similar to the system used by Johnson et al. (1966).”
OBSERVATIONS OF STARBURST GALAXIES WITH FAR-ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROGRAPHIC EXPLORER: GALACTIC FEEDBACK IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE (2009, methodology): “The 2MASS K- and J-band fluxes given in the catalog were converted to K-band CGJ using the transformations from Carpenter (2001).”
The 2MASS Large Galaxy Atlas (2001, background): “We do not correct for any instrumental differences between the 2MASS and CIT systems (see Frogel et al. 1978), which are probably different by less than a few percent (Carpenter 2001).”
A Census of the Young Cluster IC 348 (2003, background): “Near-IR colors in the 2MASS and CIT photometric systems agree at a level of less than 0.1 mag (Carpenter 2001).”