Appendix 4. 2MASS Calibration Scan Working Databases and Atlas Images


4. Calibration Scan Data Processing

b. Astrometric Calibration

Table 1 - Mean Cal-PSWDB/All-Sky PSC Position Offsets

This table contains the average and standard deviation of the position differences between point sources in the calibration scan point source WDBs and All-Sky PSC for each calibration field. The mean offsets were computed using the calibration scan positions taken from the Merged Calibration Point Source WDB.

CAUTION - The astrometric bias between the calibration scan and survey measurements varies with position in each calibration field. Therefore, the mean offsets listed below are not sufficient to correct the calibration scan astrometry to the survey reference frame.

|  field  |  avg_dra | nra | std_dra  | avg_ddec | ndec| std_ddec |
|  int    |  real    | int | real     | real     | int | real     |
     90004  -0.101258    63   0.065507   0.664400    63   0.076572
     90009   0.173705     5   0.084057   0.048240     5   0.098347
     90013  -0.185540   409   0.072499   0.119935   409   0.093223
     90021   0.159391    67   0.137101   0.318681    67   0.127800
     90067   0.258913   417   0.076927   0.278719   417   0.058886
     90091  -0.382015   101   0.245006   0.248329   101   0.112766
     90121   0.129954   366   0.168663   0.008764   366   0.106121
     90161  -0.049997   233   0.065119   0.362070   233   0.059774
     90182   0.011584   265   0.052267   0.246675   265   0.089472
     90191  -0.091513   159   0.067426   0.396498   159   0.083827
     90217   0.358496   991   0.077347  -0.017455   991   0.054380
     90234  -0.053766   231   0.077300   0.122649   231   0.086885
     90247   0.262210   448   0.071773   0.334583   448   0.072649
     90266  -0.126055    61   0.112297   0.268230    61   0.196511
     90272   0.363510    68   0.191690   0.149718    68   0.115646
     90273   0.071783  1058   0.078254   0.125364  1058   0.079275
     90279  -0.020702  2881   0.042390  -0.044939  2881   0.106011
     90290   0.002562   234   0.076184   0.311523   234   0.078565
     90294  -0.002287    78   0.066148  -0.007477    78   0.070928
     90298   0.143202   111   0.084964   0.092429   111   0.073742
     90299   0.170088   114   0.110857  -0.001135   114   0.057117
     90301   0.183356   116   0.098086  -0.049314   116   0.073910
     90312   0.022217  1901   0.051493  -0.105921  1901   0.062260
     90330   0.067273   168   0.065557   0.228793   168   0.107043
     90400   0.287129   438   0.060256   0.098818   438   0.103626
     90401   0.013047  1084   0.083408   0.128971  1084   0.105291
     90402  -0.005727   291   0.059154   0.093966   291   0.071999
     90533  -0.049960   102   0.069361   0.414000   102   0.096267
     90547  -0.045941  6348   0.040474  -0.036200  6348   0.065528
     90565   0.190262   167   0.079495   0.132489   167   0.067337
     90808  -0.062121  3102   0.081170   0.091917  3102   0.061914
     90813  -0.036692   216   0.038452   0.232550   216   0.078876
     90860   0.493318    63   0.201148   0.280514    63   0.192552
     90867   0.318704   116   0.096523   0.406769   116   0.100068
     90868   0.080079   122   0.074288   0.327777   122   0.094194
     90893  -0.166370    73   0.148928   0.386532    73   0.107094
     92026   0.000380   262   0.072875   0.158689   262   0.087898
     92202  -0.026871    97   0.040583   0.462359    97   0.119346
     92397   0.391959    91   0.143793   0.184193    91   0.081353
     92409  -0.110621   299   0.098842   0.368741   299   0.168202

Column Explanations

field - Calibration field tile number.
avg_dra, avg_dec - Average RA and Declination position offset (PSC - Cal-PSWDB), in arcseconds, for all stars in this calibration field.
std_ra, std_dec - Standard deviation of the mean position offset, in arcseconds.
nra, ndec - Number of stars used the average computation.

[Last Updated: 2008 February 18; by R. Cutri]


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