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面向21世纪科学的光度校准

Photometric Calibrations for 21st Century Science

Stephen Kent, Mary Elizabeth Kaiser, Susana E. Deustua, J. Allyn Smith, Saul Adelman, Sahar Allam, Brian Baptista, Ralph C. Bohlin, James L. Clem, Alex Conley, … 展开作者

Stephen Kent, Mary Elizabeth Kaiser, Susana E. Deustua, J. Allyn Smith, Saul Adelman, Sahar Allam, Brian Baptista, Ralph C. Bohlin, James L. Clem, Alex Conley, Jerry Edelstein, Jay Elias, Ian Glass, Arne Henden, Steve Howell, Randy A. Kimble, Jeffrey W. Kruk, Michael Lampton, Eugene A. Magnier, Stephan R. McCandliss, Warren Moos, Nick Mostek, Stuart Mufson, Terry D. Oswalt, Saul Perlmutter, Carlos Allende Prieto, Bernard J. Rauscher, Adam Riess, Abhijit Saha, Mark Sullivan, Nicholas Suntzeff, Alan Tokunaga, Douglas Tucker, Robert Wing, Bruce Woodgate, Edward L. Wright

摘要:

天体物理学中基础科学问题的答案,从宇宙膨胀的历史到附近恒星的大小,都取决于我们对各种天体进行精确测量的能力。随着探测器和仪器的进步,我们对物体的基本物理学知识的提高,我们从测量中提取科学的能力受到了限制,不是因为我们对这些物体的性质缺乏了解,而是因为所有问题中最平凡的问题:我们可以用物理单位校准观测的精度。我们强调需要一个计划,以改善和扩大目前的网络天文校准的恒星,提供精确的校准精度等于和优于1%的紫外线,可见光和近红外光谱部分,具有良好的天空覆盖和大的动态范围。

英文摘要:

The answers to fundamental science questions in astrophysics, ranging from the history of the expansion of the universe to the sizes of nearby stars, hinge on our ability to make precise measurements of diverse astronomical objects. As our knowledge of the underlying physics of objects improves along with advances in detectors and instrumentation, the limits on our capability to extract science from measurements is set, not by our lack of understanding of the nature of these objects, but rather by the most mundane of all issues: the precision with which we can calibrate observations in physical units. We stress the need for a program to improve upon and expand the current networks of spectrophotometrically calibrated stars to provide precise calibration with an accuracy of equal to and better than 1% in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared portions of the spectrum, with excellent sky coverage and large dynamic range.

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