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DMTN-277: The Monster: A reference catalog with synthetic ugrizy-band fluxes for the Vera C. Rubin observatory

Dataset ·
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  1. Institute for Data-intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology, University of Washington; Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  2. Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  3. Vera C. Rubin Observatory Project Office
  4. Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
  5. Dept. of Astronomy, University of Washington
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In order to facilitate bootstrap photometric calibrations of early Rubin Observatory data we have created an all sky reference catalog called The Monster. This reference catalog uses a rank-ordered set of other reference catalogs to generate synthetic ugrizy-band fluxes that can be used calibrate images processed with the LSST science pipelines. This document describes the methodology used to create The Monster, documents the input external reference catalogs, and performs basic data validation of the first version of The Monster.
Research Organization:
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
Sponsoring Organization:
U.S. National Science Foundation; U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
2583688
Report Number(s):
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Management Technical Note DMTN-277
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Gaia Data Release 3. The Galaxy in your preferred colours. Synthetic photometry from Gaia low-resolution spectra journal June 2022
Gaia Data Release 3 journal June 2023
The VLT Survey Telescope ATLAS journal June 2015
Forward Global Photometric Calibration of the Dark Energy Survey journal December 2017
The ATLAS All-Sky Stellar Reference Catalog journal November 2018
The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra journal June 2020
The Dark Energy Survey Data Release 2 journal July 2021
The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys preprint January 2016
The Dark Energy Survey Six-Year Calibration Star Catalog preprint January 2023

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