The Palomar transient factory photometric catalog 1.0

E. O. Ofek; R. Laher; J. Surace; Dina Levitan; B. Sesar; Assaf Horesh; N. Law; Eyken, J. C. van Eyken; S. R. Kulkarni; T. A. Prince; P. Nugent; M. Sullivan; Ofer Yaron; A. Pickles; M. Agueeros; Iair Arcavi; L. Bildsten; J. Bloom; S. B. Cenko; M. Agüeros; A. Gal-Yam; C. Grillmair; G. Helou; M. M. Kasliwal; D. Poznanski; R. Quimby

doi:https://doi.org/10.1086/666978

The Palomar transient factory photometric catalog 1.0

E. O. Ofek, R. Laher, J. Surace, Dina Levitan, B. Sesar, Assaf Horesh, N. Law, Eyken, J. C. van Eyken, S. R. Kulkarni, T. A. Prince, P. Nugent, M. Sullivan, Ofer Yaron, A. Pickles, M. Agueeros, Iair Arcavi, L. Bildsten, J. Bloom, S. B. Cenko, M. AgüerosA. Gal-Yam, C. Grillmair, G. Helou, M. M. Kasliwal, D. Poznanski, R. Quimby

Weizmann Institute of Science, Tel Aviv University

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We constructed a photometrically calibrated catalog of non-variable sources from the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) observations. The first version of this catalog presented here, the PTF photometric catalog 1.0, contains calibrated R_PTF-filter magnitudes for ≈2:1 × 10⁷ sources brighter than magnitude 19, over an area of ≈11; 233 deg². The magnitudes are provided in the PTF photometric system, and the color of a source is required in order to convert these magnitudes into other magnitude systems. We estimate that the magnitudes in this catalog have a typical accuracy of about 0.02 mag with respect to magnitudes from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The median repeatability of our catalog's magnitudes for stars between 15 and 16 mag, is about 0.01 mag and it is over 0.03 mag for 95% of the sources in this magnitude range. The main goal of this catalog is to provide reference magnitudes for photometric calibration of visible light observations. Subsequent versions of this catalog, which will be published incrementally online, will be extended to cover a larger sky area and will also include G_PTF-filter magnitudes, as well as variability and proper-motion information.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	854-860
Number of pages	7
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Volume	124
Issue number	918
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/666978
State	Published - Aug 2012

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Ofek, E. O., Laher, R., Surace, J., Levitan, D., Sesar, B., Horesh, A., Law, N., van Eyken, E. J. C., Kulkarni, S. R., Prince, T. A., Nugent, P., Sullivan, M., Yaron, O., Pickles, A., Agueeros, M., Arcavi, I., Bildsten, L., Bloom, J., Cenko, S. B., ... Quimby, R. (2012). The Palomar transient factory photometric catalog 1.0. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 124(918), 854-860. https://doi.org/10.1086/666978

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Ofek, EO, Laher, R, Surace, J, Levitan, D, Sesar, B, Horesh, A, Law, N, van Eyken, EJC, Kulkarni, SR, Prince, TA, Nugent, P, Sullivan, M, Yaron, O, Pickles, A, Agueeros, M, Arcavi, I, Bildsten, L, Bloom, J, Cenko, SB, Agüeros, M, Gal-Yam, A, Grillmair, C, Helou, G, Kasliwal, MM, Poznanski, D & Quimby, R 2012, 'The Palomar transient factory photometric catalog 1.0', Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, vol. 124, no. 918, pp. 854-860. https://doi.org/10.1086/666978

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