Bibcode
Bilir, S.; Karaali, S.; Ak, S.; daǧtekin, N. D.; Önal, Ö.; Yaz, E.; Coşkunoǧlu, B.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 417, Issue 3, pp. 2230-2238.
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2011
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Description
We present colour transformations for the conversion of the W1 and W2
magnitudes of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) photometric
system to the Johnson-Cousins BVRI, Sloan Digital Sky Survey gri and
Two-Micron All-Sky Survey JHKs photometric systems, for
dwarfs. The W3 and W4 magnitudes were not considered due to their
insufficient signal-to-noise ratio (S/N). The coordinates of 825 dwarfs
along with their BVRI, gri and JHKs data taken from Bilir et
al. were matched with the coordinates of stars in the preliminary data
release of the WISE, and a homogeneous dwarf sample with high S/N had
been obtained using the following constraints: (1) the data were
dereddened; (2) giants were identified and excluded from the sample; (3)
sample stars were selected according to data quality; (4)
transformations were derived for subsamples of different metallicity
ranges; and (5) transformations were two-colour-dependent. These colour
transformations, coupled with known absolute magnitudes at shorter
wavelengths, can be used in space-density evaluation for the Galactic
(thin and thick) discs, at distances larger than the ones evaluated with
JHKs photometry.
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