EXPLORING THE VARIABLE SKY WITH LINEAR. I. PHOTOMETRIC RECALIBRATION WITH THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY
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Sesar, Branimir
Stuart, J. Scott
Ivezic, Zeljko
Morgan, Dylan P.
Becker, Andrew C.
Wozniak, Przemyslaw
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November 2011
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The Astronomical Journal
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IOP Publishing
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Sesar, Branimir, J. Scott Stuart, Zeljko Ivezic, Dylan P. Morgan, Andrew C. Becker, and Przemyslaw Wozniak. “EXPLORING THE VARIABLE SKY WITH LINEAR. I. PHOTOMETRIC RECALIBRATION WITH THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY.” The Astronomical Journal 142, no. 6 (November 4, 2011): 190. © 2011 The American Astronomical Society
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Abstract
We describe photometric recalibration of data obtained by the asteroid survey LINEAR. Although LINEAR was designed for astrometric discovery of moving objects, the data set described here contains over 5 billion photometric measurements for about 25 million objects, mostly stars. We use Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) data from the overlapping ~10,000 deg[superscript 2] of sky to recalibrate LINEAR photometry and achieve errors of 0.03 mag for sources not limited by photon statistics with errors of 0.2 mag at r ~ 18. With its 200 observations per object on average, LINEAR data provide time domain information for the brightest four magnitudes of the SDSS survey. At the same time, LINEAR extends the deepest similar wide-area variability survey, the Northern Sky Variability Survey, by 3 mag. We briefly discuss the properties of about 7000 visually confirmed periodic variables, dominated by roughly equal fractions of RR Lyrae stars and eclipsing binary stars, and analyze their distribution in optical and infrared color-color diagrams. The LINEAR data set is publicly available from the SkyDOT Web site.
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Lincoln Laboratory
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https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/142/6/190
