J-PLUS: photometric calibration of large area multi-filter surveys with stellar and white dwarf loci

Abstract

We present the photometric calibration of the twelve optical passbands observed by the Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS). The proposed calibration method has four steps: (i) definition of a high-quality set of calibration stars using Gaia information and available 3D dust maps; (ii) anchoring of the J-PLUS gri passbands to the Pan-STARRS photometric solution, accounting for the variation of the calibration with the position of the sources on the CCD; (iii) homogenization of the photometry in the other nine J-PLUS filters using the dust de-reddened instrumental stellar locus in (X - r) versus (g - i) colours, where X is the filter to calibrate. The zero point variation along the CCD in these filters was estimated with the distance to the stellar locus. Finally, (iv) the absolute colour calibration was obtained with the white dwarf locus. We performed a joint Bayesian modelling of eleven J-PLUS colour-colour diagrams using the theoretical white dwarf locus as reference. This provides the needed offsets to transform instrumental magnitudes to calibrated magnitudes outside the atmosphere. The uncertainty of the J-PLUS photometric calibration, estimated from duplicated objects observed in adjacent pointings and accounting for the absolute colour and flux calibration errors, are ~19 mmag in u, J0378 and J0395, ~11 mmag in J0410 and J0430, and ~8 mmag in g, J0515, r, J0660, i, J0861, and z. We present an optimized calibration method for the large area multi-filter J-PLUS project, reaching 1-2% accuracy within an area of 1 022 square degrees without the need for long observing calibration campaigns or constant atmospheric monitoring. The proposed method will be adapted for the photometric calibration of J-PAS, that will observe several thousand square degrees with 56 narrow optical filters.

arXiv commentSubmitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics. 14 figures, 5 tables. Comments are welcome. Extra information about the photometry update can be found at www.j-plus.es/datareleases/dr1_swdl_calibration

References in corpus (63)

• Astropy: A Community Python Package for Astronomy
• emcee: The MCMC Hammer
• Gaia Data Release 2. Summary of the contents and survey properties
• The Gaia mission
• The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
• Correcting for the Effects of Interstellar Extinction
• Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
• Estimating distances from parallaxes IV: Distances to 1.33 billion stars in Gaia Data Release 2
• The Multi-Object, Fiber-Fed Spectrographs for SDSS and the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
• The Pan-STARRS1 Photometric System
• Gaia Data Release 2: using Gaia parallaxes
• An Analysis of the Shapes of Interstellar Extinction Curves. V. The IR-Through-UV Curve Morphology
• The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: II. Stellar Metallicity
• STELIB: a library of stellar spectra at R~2000
• Galactic Reddening in 3D from Stellar Photometry - An Improved Map
• Stellar SEDs from 0.3-2.5 Microns: Tracing the Stellar Locus and Searching for Color Outliers in SDSS and 2MASS
• A $Gaia$ Data Release 2 catalogue of white dwarfs and a comparison with SDSS
• A Catalog of Spectroscopically Confirmed White Dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 4
• SkyMapper Southern Survey: First Data Release (DR1)
• Photometric Calibration of the First 1.5 Years of the Pan-STARRS1 Survey
• SDSS Standard Star Catalog for Stripe 82: the Dawn of Industrial 1% Optical Photometry
• The fourth data release of the Kilo-Degree Survey: ugri imaging and nine-band optical-IR photometry over 1000 square degrees
• The large-scale structure of the halo of the Andromeda Galaxy Part I: global stellar density, morphology and metallicity properties
• The Pristine survey I: Mining the Galaxy for the most metal-poor stars
• J-PLUS: The Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey
• The Optical-Infrared Extinction Curve and its Variation in the Milky Way
• Spectroscopic analysis of DA white dwarfs with 3D model atmospheres
• The Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey (S-PLUS): improved SEDs, morphologies and redshifts with 12 optical filters
• On the Measurement of Fundamental Parameters of White Dwarfs in the Gaia Era
• The Blue Tip of the Stellar Locus: Measuring Reddening with the SDSS
• The UKIRT Hemisphere Survey: Definition and J-band Data Release
• The Palomar Transient Factory photometric calibration
• A reanalysis of the Gaia Data Release 2 photometric sensitivity curves using HST/STIS spectrophotometry
• Supercal: Cross-Calibration of Multiple Photometric Systems to Improve Cosmological Measurements with Type Ia Supernovae
• A White Dwarf catalogue from Gaia-DR2 and the Virtual Observatory
• Photometric Calibration of the Supernova Legacy Survey Fields
• Stellar Locus Regression: Accurate Color Calibration, and the Real-time Determination of Galaxy Cluster Photometric Redshifts
• Hypercalibration: A Pan-STARRS1-based recalibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• Forward Global Photometric Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey
• The Canada-France Imaging Survey: First results from the u-band component
• Fundamental parameter accuracy of DA and DB white dwarfs in Gaia Data Release 2
• Weighing the Giants II: Improved Calibration of Photometry from Stellar Colors and Accurate Photometric Redshifts
• The empirical Gaia G-band extinction coefficient
• J-PLUS: Identification of low-metallicity stars with artificial neural networks using SPHINX
• J-PLUS: Morphological star/galaxy classification by PDF analysis
• The ALHAMBRA survey: Accurate merger fractions by PDF analysis of photometric close pairs
• Pure-helium 3D model atmospheres of white dwarfs
• Sub-percent Photometry: Faint DA White Dwarf Spectophotometric Standards for Astrophysical Observatories
• Extracting H$\alpha$ flux from photometric data in the J-PLUS survey
• J-PLUS: On the identification of new cluster members in the double galaxy cluster A2589 & A2593 using PDFs
• J-PLUS: 2-D analysis of the stellar population in NGC 5473 and NGC 5485
• J-PLUS: measuring $\mathrm{H}\alpha$ emission line fluxes in the nearby universe
• J-PLUS: A wide-field multi-band study of the M15 globular cluster. Evidence of multiple stellar populations in the RGB
• Towards a Network of Faint DA White Dwarfs as High-Precision Spectrophotometric Standards
• The ALHAMBRA survey : $B-$band luminosity function of quiescent and star-forming galaxies at $0.2\le z<1$ by PDF analysis
• All Weather Calibration of Wide Field Optical and NIR Surveys
• The ALHAMBRA survey: tight dependence of the optical mass-to-light ratio on galaxy colour up to z = 1.5
• Photometric calibration for the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey and Mayall z-band Legacy Survey
• Ubercalibration of the Deep Lens Survey
• The GALANTE Photometric System
• A Color-locus Method for Mapping $R_V$ Using Ensembles of Stars
• An Improved Photometric Calibration of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Imaging Data

Cited by in corpus (36)

• A catalogue of white dwarfs in Gaia EDR3
• The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2
• The miniJPAS survey: a preview of the Universe in 56 colours
• Gaia Data Release 3: The Galaxy in your preferred colours. Synthetic photometry from Gaia low-resolution spectra
• Data Release 2 of S-PLUS: accurate template-fitting based photometry covering $\sim$1000 square degrees in 12 optical filters
• The Photometric Metallicity and Carbon Distributions of the Milky Way's Halo and Solar Neighborhood from S-PLUS Observations of SDSS Stripe 82
• The miniJPAS survey: Identification and characterization of galaxy populations with the J-PAS photometric system
• J-PLUS: Stellar Parameters, C, N, Mg, Ca and [α/Fe] Abundances for Two Million Stars from DR1
• J-PLUS: Unveiling the brightest-end of the Lyα luminosity function at 2.0<z<3.3 over 1000 deg^2
• The miniJPAS survey: the photometric redshift catalogue
• J-PLUS: Spectral evolution of white dwarfs by PDF analysis
• Validation and Improvement of the Pan-STARRS Photometric Calibration with the Stellar Color Regression Method
• J-PLUS: Uncovering a large population of extreme [OIII] emitters in the local Universe
• The miniJPAS survey: AGN & host galaxy co-evolution of X-ray selected sources
• Photometric recalibration of the SDSS Stripe 82 to a few milimagnitude precision with the stellar color regression method and Gaia EDR3
• TOPz: Photometric redshifts for J-PAS
• J-PLUS: The star formation main sequence and rate density at d < 75 Mpc
• The miniJPAS survey: The galaxy populations in the most massive cluster in miniJPAS, mJPC2470-1771
• The miniJPAS survey quasar selection II: Machine learning classification with photometric measurements and uncertainties
• J-NEP: 60-band photometry and photometric redshifts for the James Webb Space Telescope North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field
• Photometric calibration of the Stellar Abundance and Galactic Evolution Survey (SAGES): Nanshan One-meter Wide-field Telescope g, r, and i band imaging data
• Mapping the ionized gas of the metal-poor HII galaxy PHL 293B with MEGARA
• J-PLUS DR3: Galaxy-Star-Quasar classification
• J-PLUS: A first glimpse at spectrophotometry of asteroids -- The MOOJa catalog
• The GALANTE photometric survey of the northern Galactic plane: Project description and pipeline
• J-PLUS: A catalogue of globular cluster candidates around the M81/M82/NGC3077 triplet of galaxies
• J-PLUS: Spectroscopic validation of H$\alpha$ emission line maps in spatially resolved galaxies
• The miniJPAS Survey: Detection of double-core Lyα morphology of two high-redshift (z>3) QSOs
• Probing the cosmic web in Ly$\alpha$ emission over large scales: an Intensity Mapping forecast for DECaLS/BASS and DESI
• Ages and metallicities of stellar clusters using S-PLUS narrow-band integrated photometry: the Small Magellanic Cloud
• Exploring the spatially-resolved capabilities of the J-PAS survey with Py2DJPAS
• The miniJPAS survey quasar selection IV: Classification and redshift estimation with SQUEzE
• The miniJPAS and J-NEP surveys: Machine learning for star-galaxy separation
• The miniJPAS survey quasar selection V: combined algorithm
• J-PLUS: Systematic impact of metallicity on photometric calibration with the stellar locus
• The miniJPAS survey quasar selection I: Mock catalogues for classification