Standard photometric systems

MS Bessell - Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys., 2005‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Standard star photometry dominated the latter half of the twentieth century
reaching its zenith in the 1980s. It was introduced to take advantage of the high sensitivity …

Evolution of asymptotic giant branch stars-II. Optical to far-infrared isochrones with improved tp-agb models

P Marigo, L Girardi, A Bressan… - Astronomy & …, 2008‏ - aanda.org
We present a large set of theoretical isochrones, whose distinctive features mostly reside on
the greatly-improved treatment of the thermally-pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB) …

Spectral Irradiance Calibration in the Infrared. XIV. The AbsoluteCalibration of 2MASS

M Cohen, WA Wheaton, ST Megeath - The Astronomical Journal, 2003‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Element by element, we have combined the optical components in the three cameras of the
Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), and incorporated detector quantum efficiency curves …

The angular sizes of dwarf stars and subgiants-Surface brightness relations calibrated by interferometry

P Kervella, F Thévenin, E Di Folco… - Astronomy & …, 2004‏ - aanda.org
The availability of a number of new interferometric measurements of Main Sequence and
subgiant stars makes it possible to calibrate the surface brightness relations of these stars …

An empirical formula for the mass-loss rates of dust-enshrouded red supergiants and oxygen-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch stars

JT Van Loon, MRL Cioni, AA Zijlstra, C Loup - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2005‏ - aanda.org
We present an empirical determination of the mass-loss rate as a function of stellar
luminosity and effective temperature, for oxygen-rich dust-enshrouded Asymptotic Giant …

First stars. I. The extreme r-element rich, iron-poor halo giant CS 31082-001-Implications for the r-process site (s) and radioactive cosmochronology

V Hill, B Plez, R Cayrel, TC Beers, B Nordström… - Astronomy & …, 2002‏ - aanda.org
We present a high-resolution (75 000, S/N) spectroscopic analysis of the bright (11.7),
extreme halo giant CS 31082-001 ([Fe/H]=-2.9), obtained in an ESO-VLT Large Programme …

Magellanic Cloud structure from near-infrared surveys. I. The viewing angles of the Large Magellanic Cloud

RP van der Marel, MRL Cioni - The Astronomical Journal, 2001‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present a detailed study of the viewing angles of the LMC disk plane. We find that our
viewing direction differs considerably from the commonly accepted values, which has …

Measurement of stellar age from uranium decay

R Cayrel, V Hill, TC Beers, B Barbuy, M Spite, F Spite… - Nature, 2001‏ - nature.com
The ages of the oldest stars in the Galaxy indicate when star formation began, and provide a
minimum age for the Universe. Radioactive dating of meteoritic material and stars relies on …

The tip of the red giant branch and distance of the Magellanic Clouds: results from the DENIS survey

MRL Cioni, RP van der Marel, C Loup… - arxiv preprint astro-ph …, 2000‏ - arxiv.org
We present a precise determination of the apparent magnitude of the tip of the red giant
branch (TRGB) in the I (0.8 micron), J (1.25 micron), and K_S (2.15 micron) bands from the …

JHK observations of faint standard stars in the Mauna Kea Observatories near-infrared photometric system

SK Leggett, MJ Currie, WP Varricatt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2006‏ - academic.oup.com
JHK photometry in the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) near-infrared system is presented
for 115 stars. Of these stars, 79 are United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) standards …