Revised SDSS ugriz zero-points obtained by inverting IRFM on 6000+ FGK stars to match an adopted temperature scale, with largest offset in u band depending on filter curves.
SkyMapper stellar parameters for Galactic Archaeology on a grand-scale
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The SkyMapper photometric surveys provides uvgriz photometry for several millions sources in the Southern sky. We use DR1.1 to explore the quality of its photometry, and develop a formalism to homogenise zero-points across the sky using stellar effective temperatures. Physical flux transformations, and zero-points appropriate for this release are derived, along with relations linking colour indices to stellar parameters. Reddening-free pseudo-colours and pseudo-magnitudes are also introduced. For late-type stars which are best suited for Galactic Archaeology, we show that SkyMapper+2MASS are able to deliver a precision better than 100K in effective temperatures (depending on the filters), ~0.2dex for metallicities above -2, and a reliable distinction between M-dwarfs and -giants. Together with astrometric and asteroseismic space mission, SkyMapper promises to be a treasure trove for stellar and Galactic studies.
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New empirical color-Teff calibrations in the SDSS system from IRFM temperatures of 3902 GALAH and 2535 APOGEE stars, with 30-50 K precision for long-baseline colors.
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Recalibration of SDSS photometric zero-points based on the InfraRed Flux Method temperature scale
Revised SDSS ugriz zero-points obtained by inverting IRFM on 6000+ FGK stars to match an adopted temperature scale, with largest offset in u band depending on filter curves.
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Empirical colour--effective temperature relations in the SDSS system from IRFM temperatures of GALAH and APOGEE stars
New empirical color-Teff calibrations in the SDSS system from IRFM temperatures of 3902 GALAH and 2535 APOGEE stars, with 30-50 K precision for long-baseline colors.