The Method of Synthetic Photometry
Abstract
The method of synthetic photometry, using the calculation of magnitudes, color indices and other photometric quantities of stars from their spectral energy distribution functions, is being used for obtaining the transformation relations between various photometric systems, the selection of optimum positions of passbands for stellar classification, for investigation of interstellar and atmospheric extinction effects (the band-width effect), for restoration of response functions of the photometric system, for calibrations of photometric quantities in terms of physical parameters of stars, for calibration of magnitudes in absolute fluxes and many other tasks. The paper describes the history of the method and its different applications.
- Publication:
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Baltic Astronomy
- Pub Date:
- 1996
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- Bibcode:
- 1996BaltA...5..459S
- Keywords:
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- METHODS: NUMERICAL;
- TECHNIQUES: PHOTOMETRIC;
- STARS: FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS;
- SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS