[KIDS] comparison of KIDS to SDSS photometry
Francesco La Barbera
flabarber at gmail.com
Fri Nov 30 10:03:12 CET 2012
Dear Gijs,
thank you very much for the effort to put this material on the wiki.
I wilI look into this and discuss it with Mario on Monday morning too.
[]s,
Francesco
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn
<verdoes at astro.rug.nl>wrote:
> Dear Francesco and Mario,
>
> FYI,
> While digesting the valuable information in your plots I already put some
> of the material on the wiki in the KiDS-INT-DR2 cookbook area:
>
> http://wiki.astro-wise.org/projects:kids:data_deliveries:internaldelivery2.0_cookbook#kids_vs_sdss
> Hope this helps you as well and please have a look to improve my wording
> if you find the time.
>
> Best wishes, Gijs
>
> Op 28-11-2012 10:21, Francesco La Barbera schreef:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I summarize here the comparison of KIDS to SDSS photometry we
> (Mario+me) have performed so far for the 52 coadds of KIDS INTR2. All
> plots are included in the attached archive.
>
> Mario has also performed a comparison to CFHTLS as well as a first
> attempt to characterize of color terms using SDSS and CFHTLS data, but
> I'm not going to include it in here (we didn't have much time to look
> at it in detail, so far).
>
> We have matched the KIDSCAT catalogs to SDSS DR8, separating stars and
> galaxies according to SDSS classification.
>
> The plots
>
> sdss_${SOURCE}_${BAND}_${FIELD}_full_DR8.png
>
> show differences in magnitude as a function of RA (upper panel) and
> DEC (lower panel), where
> SOURCES -> gal/st refer to galaxies and stars, respectively
> BAND -> ugri
> FIELD -> f135 plots the three fields with RA~131, 135, and 139
> f185 plots the ten fields with RA~184, 185, and 186
>
> We are using petromags from SDSS (for both stars and galaxies).
> KIDSCAT mags have been interpotaled to match the SDSS 4xPetroRad
> (diameter) aperture for each object. Lines are running medians for
> different bands/pointings (the u-band comparison for galaxies is quite
> meaningless, considering the low S/N of SDSS u-band data). Median
> KIDS-SDSS offsets have been subtracted off for each field.
>
> On average, the agreement is good, with no significant variations
> (larger than a few cenths of mags) across the fields. This is further
> shown in the attached plots
>
> cmp_${BAND}band_phot_ra_dec_${SOURCES}_errmag0.05.jpg
>
> where
>
> BAND->ugri
> SOURCES-> stars/galaxies
>
> plotting magntiude differences as a function of RA and DEC with all
> fields overplotted (after subtracting off the RA and DEC of each coadd
> center). Median magnitude offsets have been removed (as done for
> previous plots), and only objects with better SDSS photometry
> (petroerr_mag<0.05mag) have been selected. Circles plot all available
> sources (for all 13 coadds in each band). Curves are median-binned
> trends (each bin including the same number of objects), with different
> colors corresponding to different fields. Notice that the u-band plot
> for galaxies is not included, for the reasons mentioned above.
>
> Finally, the plots
>
> off_${BAND}band_phot_ra_dec_${SOURCES}_errmag0.05.jpg
>
> show the distribution of median magnitude offsets for all the 13
> fields available in each band. In general, the distributions have a
> width of a few cenths of mags, but in one case (KIDS_185.0_-0.5,
> g-band) there is a large offset of ~0.1mag. We think it's important to
> investigate why this happened.
>
> I'm also attaching two tables (produced by Mario, hopefully in wiki
> format) summarizing the the median offsets, mad, and peak to peak
> amplitudes in RA and DEC (to have an upper value to the internal
> photometric accuracy):
>
> ov_sdss_gals.tab
> ov_sdss_stars.tab
>
> If necessary, I can provide further details/info on the comparison
> during today's teleconf. We'll try to put all this material on the wiki as
> soon as possible.
>
> Cheers,
> Francesco & Mario
>
>
>
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