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DOI
An, Deokkeun; Johnson, Jennifer A.; Clem, James L.; Yanny, Brian; Rockosi, Constance M.; Morrison, Heather L.; Harding, Paul; Gunn, James E.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Beers, Timothy C.; Cudworth, Kyle M.; Ivans, Inese I.; Ivezić, Željko; Lee, Young Sun; Lupton, Robert H.; Bizyaev, Dmitry; Brewington, Howard; Malanushenko, Elena; Malanushenko, Viktor; Oravetz, Dan; Pan, Kaike; Simmons, Audrey; Snedden, Stephanie; Watters, Shannon; York, Donald G.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 179, Issue 2, pp. 326-354.
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12
2008
Citations
141
Refereed citations
133
Description
We present photometry for globular and open cluster stars observed with
the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In order to exploit the over 100
million stellar objects with r<22.5 mag observed by SDSS, we need to
understand the characteristics of stars in the SDSS ugriz filters. While
star clusters provide important calibration samples for stellar colors,
the regions close to globular clusters, where the fraction of field
stars is smallest, are too crowded for the standard SDSS photometric
pipeline to process. To complement the SDSS imaging survey, we reduce
the SDSS imaging data for crowded cluster fields using the
DAOPHOT/ALLFRAME suite of programs and present photometry for 17
globular clusters and three open clusters in a SDSS value-added catalog.
Our photometry and cluster fiducial sequences are on the native SDSS 2.5
m ugriz photometric system, and the fiducial sequences can be directly
applied to the SDSS photometry without relying on any transformations.
Model photometry for red giant branch and main-sequence stars obtained
by Girardi et al. cannot be matched simultaneously to fiducial
sequences; their colors differ by ~0.02-0.05 mag. Good agreement
(<~0.02 mag in colors) is found with Clem et al. empirical fiducial
sequences in u'g'r'i'z' when using the transformation equations in
Tucker et al.