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Theoretical colours and isochrones for some Hubble Space Telescope colour systems. IIA grid of synthetic surface brightness magnitudes for 14 bandpasses of the Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Camera is presented, as well as a grid of UBV, uvby, and Faint Object Camera surface brightness magnitudes derived from the Gunn-Stryker spectrophotometric atlas. The synthetic colors are used to examine the transformations between the ground-based Johnson UBV and Stromgren uvby systems and the Faint Object Camera UBV and uvby. Two new four-color systems, similar to the Stromgren system, are proposed for the determination of abundance, temperature, and surface gravity. The synthetic colors are also used to calculate color-magnitude isochrones from the list of theoretical tracks provided by VandenBerg and Bell (1990). It is shown that by using the appropriate filters it is possible to minimize the dependence of this color difference on metallicity. The effects of interstellar reddening on various Faint Object Camera colors are analyzed as well as the observational requirements for obtaining data of a given signal-to-noise for each of the 14 bandpasses.
Document ID
19920034709
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Paltoglou, G.
(Maryland Univ. College Park, MD, United States)
Bell, R. A.
(Maryland, University College Park, United States)
Date Acquired
August 15, 2013
Publication Date
December 1, 1991
Publication Information
Publication: Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices
Volume: 253
ISSN: 0035-8711
Subject Category
Astronomy
Accession Number
92A17333
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-1004
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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