[vsnet-alert 20748] Re: MASTER OT J191915.73+125731.8 optical detection of IR source

Brian Skiff bas at lowell.edu
Tue Mar 7 03:00:28 JST 2017


On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 09:58 +0000, MASTER Lipunov V.M. wrote:
> MASTER-SAAO detected optical source MASTER OT J191915.73+125731.8 at 19h 19m 15.73s +12d 57m 31.8s on 2017-03-06.108 UT with unfilterd m_OT=17.4 (W=0.2B+0.8R calibrated by USNO-B1 thousands stars)
> 
     But if all the thousands of stars have a systematic error
in the magnitudes (likely with USNO-B1.0), then the data will
still be off --- it is not a root-n problem.  Better now for 
'unfiltered' photometry would be to adopt GAIA 'G' magnitudes,
which are red biased (like the usual CCD), but also of quite high 
internal precision.


\Brian




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