Eric Deutsch
Department of Astronomy, University of Washington

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Some Useful References

Some Useful Reference Papers

• "Sky Spectra at a Light-Polluted Site and the use of Atomic and OH Sky Emission lines for Wavelength Calibration" by Osterbrock and Martel 1992, PASP, 104, 76
• "The Spectrum of the Kitt Peak Night Sky" by Massey, Gronwall, and Pilachowski 1990, PASP, 102, 1046
• "Infrared Standard Stars" by Elias, Frogel, Mathews, and Neugebauer 1982, AJ, 87, 1029
• UKIRT Infrared Standards (faint stars probably of most interest)
• "Importance of Atmospheric Differential Refraction in Spectrophotometry" by Filippenko 1982, PASP 94, 715 Exerpt table:
  

  Airmass	Arcseconds vs. Wavelength (Ångstroms)
  	3000	3500	4000	4500	5000	6000	7000	8000	9000
  1.5	2.4	1.4	0.7	0.3	0.0	-0.4	-0.6	-0.7	-0.8
  2.0	3.7	2.1	1.1	0.5	0.0	-0.6	-0.9	-1.2	-1.3

• "Spectrophotometric Standards" by Massey, Strobel, Barnes, and Anderson 1988, ApJ, 328, 315
• "The Kitt Peak Spectrophotometric Standards: Extension to 1 Micron" by Massey and Gronwall 1990, ApJ, 358, 344
• "Secondary Photometric Standard Stars for the Thuan-Gunn and Johnson-Kron-Cousins Systems" by Inger Jørgensen 1994, PASP 106 967
• "UBVRI Photometric Standard Stars in the Magnitude Range 11.5 < V < 16.0 Around the Celestial Equator" by Arlo Landolt 1992, AJ, 104, 340
• "Video Camera/CCD Standard Stars" by C. A. Christian et al. 1985, PASP, 97, 363
• " Network Resources for Astronomers" by Andernach, Hanisch, & Murtagh 1994, PASP 106 1190