IR Astronomy Reference Information

Photometric standards

• UKIRT Faint Standard Stars - The UKIRT JHK - Faint Standard Star List with K' interpolated magnitudes.
• UKIRT Bright Standard Stars - The UKIRT Bright Standard Star List.
• UKIRT Standard Stars - The UKIRT IR Standard Star List.
• UKIRT F-G Dwarf Stars - The UKIRT list of Dwarf Stars of spectral type F-G.
• UKIRT IZ photometric standards
• Northern JHK Standard Stars for Array Detectors Hunt et al. 1998 ( AJ 115, 2594) using Arnica
  Load catalogue directly on TCS by typing: read JHKstd_hunt.cat
• HST IR standards (JHKKs) Persson et al. 1998 (AJ 116, 2475)
• Faint JHK standards in the Mauna Kea Observatory (MKO) system Leggett et al. 2006 (MNRAS 373,781) NEW!
  Load catalogue directly on the TCS by typing: read JHKstd_leggett.cat
• Selected NOTCam standard fields (with finding charts, visibility plot and scripts)
  Load catalogue directly on the TCS by typing: read notcamstd.cat
• Preliminary UKIRT ZY standard measurements

Spectroscopic and polarimetric standards

• NIR telluric standard stars (Gemini page on NIR spectroscopic standards)
• UKIRT polarisation standards

Useful links

• The UKIRT ZYJHK photometric system, UKIDSS filters , and UKIRT photometric standards
• The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey ZYJHK Photometric System: Passbands and Synthetic Colours Hewett et al. 2006, MNRAS 367, 454 (local pdf file)
• Isophotal wavelengths, isophotal frequencies, and flux densities for Vega for the MKO-NIR filters NEW!
• Tokunaga's page on IR filters
• A NIR stellar spectral library in JHK
• Dwarf/Giant/Supergiant Star Effective Temperatures
• Conversion from Janskys to Magnitudes etc

IR line lists

• Molecular Hydrogen IR line list - Lists of H2 lines from near- mid-IR.
• CO IR band/line list - Lists of CO bands/lines in near--IR.
• OH IR line list - Lists of OH atmospheric lines in near-IR.
• Hydrogen IR recombination line list - Lists f H lines in near-IR.