Standard Objects For Astronomy
 
 
 
 
 
 

version	mirror site in India at Physical Research Laboratory
	mirror site in the USA at the University of Toledo mirror site (still active but now out of date) in France at LAOG

A. gamma, X-ray standards
...no literally "standard" objects yet, but better than nothing:
HEARSAC	a multi-mission astronomy archive for the EUV, X-ray, and Gamma ray wave bands

B. UV standards
HST Spectrophotometric Standards Bohlin et al. (1992)	23 stars based on IUE, optical spectra and the WD standards + 6 stars with IUE and model spectra

C. visible standards
Landolt Standards Landolt (1979,1983a,1983b,1992a,1992b)	photometric standard stars
UBVRI standard stars at northern declinations Oja (1996)	123 stars between with V=6 and 11
The southern Vilnius photometric system I, II,III,IV Forbes et al. (1993, 1994,1997),Zdanavicius et al. (1997)	about 200 stars
Color indices of the Sun in the Vilnius and the UBV systems Strayzis & Valiaugas (1994)	Sun photometry
Optical spectrophotometric standards Oke (1990)	25 stars (7 to 16 mag.) from 3200 to 10200 Å
Spectrophotometric standards Massey et al. (1988)	25 stars (7 to 16 mag.) from 3200 to 8100 Å
Secondary spectrophotometric standards Glushneva et al. (1992)	238 secondary standard stars in the range 3200-7600 Å with a 50 Å resolution + energy distribution for 99 stars between 6000-10800 Å
KPNO spectrophotometric standards: extension to 1 micron Massey et al. (1990)	11 standards from 6600 to 10300 Å
Optical spectrophotometric standards Hamuy et al. (1992, 1994)	10 bright standards and 19 fainter (10 to 14 mag.) standards from 3300 to about 10300 Å
White Dwarf primary spectrophotometric standards Bohlin et al. (1995, 1996)	4 stars from 10 Å to 3 microns
Faint spectrophotometric standard stars for large optical telescopes Filippenko & Greenstein	5 faint spectrophotometric standards between 3300 and 10,000 Å
HST Spectrophotometric Standards Bohlin et al. (1992)	23 stars based on IUE, optical spectra and the WD standards + 6 stars with IUE and model spectra
Southern spectrophotometric standards for large telescopes I, II Baldwin & Stone (1983, 1984)	spectra between 6056 and 10,400 Å
A series of faint spectrophotometric standard stars at +33 deg declination Hickson & Mulrooney (1998)	21 spectra (3500-9200 Å) for 15th magnitude stars
An atlas of HST photometric, spectrophotometric and polarimetric calibration object Turnshek et al. (1990)	with finding charts

D. IR standards
K-band spectra of F8-M7 standard stars Kleinmann et al. (1986)	26 stellar spectra from 2.0 to 2.5 microns
Spectral irradiance calibration in the infrared IV,VI,VII Cohen et al. (1995, 1996a, 1996b),and other papers)	stellar spectra from 3 to 35 microns
Infrared standard stars Elias et al. (1982, erratum)	JHKL, H2O, Co standards
An atlas of stellar spectra between 2.00 and 2.45 microns Arnaud et al. (1989)	73 stars
IR photometry of ESO calibration stars Van Der Bliek et al. (1996) Bouchet et al. (1991), Bersanelli et al. (1991)	1-20 microns
Northern JHK standard stars for array detectors Hunt et al. (1998)	86 JHK standards
JHKL photometry of 145 southern stars Glass (1974)	145 standards
Faint southern JHKL standards Carter (1990, 1995)	infrared standards
The AAO JHKL-prime photometric standards Allen & Cragg (1983)	southern 1.5<K<6 standards
IR observations of southern bright stars Engels et al. (1981)	infrared standards
KPNO spectrophotometric standards: extension to 1 micron Massey et al. (1990)	11 standards from 6600 to 10300 Å

E. radio standards
RRFID	The Radio Reference Frame Image Database
Radio flux calibrator	Zombeck, M. V., 1990, Handbook of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Second Edition (Cambridge,UK: Cambridge University Press)
VLBA Calibrator List	list of VLBA calibrators
Interferometer phase calibration sources Wrobel et al. (1998), Patnaik et al. (1992), Browne (1998), Wilkinson (1998)	2121 compact radio sources as candidate phase calibrators for VLBI networks

Various useful links
The Standard Star Newsletter	to keep astronomers in touch with all aspects of stellar standards	IAU
Simbad	basic data, cross-identifications and bibliography for astronomical objects outside the solar system	CDS  (US)
VizieR	the most complete library of published astronomical catalogues organized in a self-documented database	CDS  (US,Japon)
CADC	numerous archives and catalogues	NRC-CNRC
AstroWeb	a collection of pointers to astronomy-related information available on the Internet	CDS  (STScI,MSSSO,NRAO,Vilspa,La Plata)
AstroGLU AstroBrowse Starcast	to query hundreds of different catalogs and services distributed around the world using a single interface	CDS  NASA (SAO) STScI
Hypercat	catalogues of galaxies with nice interface to study their physics	CRAL,OAB,OAC
AMASE	multi-mission and multi-spectral data catalog in the NASA archives	NASA
MAST	data from the Multimission Archive at STScI	STScI
World Plate Store	historic astronomical observations taken on photographic plates during the first three-quarters of this century (in construction)	OHP
skycat	tool that combines visualization of images and access to catalogs and archive data for astronomy	ESO-NRC-CNRC
Aladin	visual summary of the multi-wavelength sky	CDS
SkyView	any part of the sky from radio to Gamma-Ray domains	NASA
IRSKY	viewing the infrared sky	IPAC
PHYSICAL REFERENCE DATA	laboratory measurements (atomic spectra, molecules., gamma,...)	NIST

...more links to come soon.
 
 
 

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