SNLS and SDSS SN surveys photometric calibration

DOI

We present a joined photometric calibration for the SNLS and the SDSS supernova surveys. Our main delivery are catalogs of natural AB magnitudes for a large set of selected tertiary standard stars covering the science field of both surveys. Those catalogs are calibrated to the AB flux scale through observations of 5 primary spectrophotometric standard stars, for which HST-STIS spectra are available in the CALSPEC database. The estimate of the uncertainties associated to this calibration are delivered as a single covariance matrix. We also provide a model of the transmission efficiency of the SNLS photometric instrument MegaCam. Those transmission functions are required for the interpretation of MegaCam natural magnitudes in term of physical fluxes. Similar curves for the SDSS photometric instrument have been published in Doi et al. (2010AJ....139.1628D). Last, we release the measured magnitudes of the five CALSPEC standard stars in the magnitude system of the tertiary catalogs. This makes it possible to update the calibration of the tertiary catalogs if CALSPEC spectra for the primary standards are revised.

Cone search capability for table J/A+A/552/A124/tablee1 (SDSS Stripe 82 tertiary star catalog)

Cone search capability for table J/A+A/552/A124/tablee2 (SNLS deep-fields tertiary star catalog)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.35520124
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/552/A124
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/552/A124
Related Identifier https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/A+A/552/A124
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/552/A124
Provenance
Creator Betoule M.; Marriner J.; Regnault N.; Cuillandre J.-C.; Astier P.; Guy J.,Balland C.; El Hage P.; Hardin D.; Kessler R.; Le Guillou L.; Mosher J.,Pain R.; Rocci P.-F.; Sako M.; Schahmaneche K.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2013
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics; Stellar Astronomy