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González-Pérez, José Nicolás; Kidger, Mark R.; Martín-Luis, Fabiola
Bibliographical reference
The Astronomical Journal, Volume 122, Issue 4, pp. 2055-2098.
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2001
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89
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81
Description
We present a total of 12,436 photometric measures of 371 field stars of
26 quasars in the visible (UBVRI) and 22,276 photometric measures of 122
field stars of 13 quasars in the near-infrared (JHK), giving a total of
34,712 measures. Of these, 115 stars in 12 fields are calibrated in both
ranges. One further field, Mrk 421, was calibrated, but on close
examination all sources were found to be probably nonstellar; thus these
results are not included here. The stars observed cover the range from
V=11 to V=20 and from K=9 to K=17 and are well distributed around the
sky north of declination -30°. This represents the initial sample of
an extensive catalog of calibrated fields that will cover the northern
sky down to declination -30° and that will cover a wide range of
Galactic latitudes. These fields will be useful both for photometry of
AGNs in the range from B to K and also as faint calibration standards
for large telescopes. The median absolute total error on the photometry,
including all known error sources, ranges from 0.008 mag in J to 0.034
mag in B. These errors will be greatly reduced with the addition of
further data in the future, although the final precision is
fundamentally limited by the photometric errors in the existing lists of
calibration stars used to calibrate these data. Based on observations
made with Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope operated on the island of La Palma
by the Isaac Newton Group in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de Los
Muchachos and on observations with the IAC-80 and Carlos Sánchez
Telescopes operated on the island of Tenerife by the Instituto de
Astrofísica de Canarias in the Spanish Observatorio del Teide of
the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.