SOFIA :Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) SOFIA/FPI :The Focal Plane Imager (FPI+) is the standard tracking camera for the SOFIA telescope with a 1024x1024 pixel science grade CCD sensor.id:SOFIA/FPI.a → GaiaXPy base XML file. You can download here the GaiaXPy base XML file for the full SOFIA/FPI filter set. Please, take a look to the GaiaXPy web page and additional documentation for more information. |
| SOFIA/FPI.u_sdss | 3778.08 | 3778.64 | 3785.96 | 3675.00 | 3848.96 | 79.25 | 2288.89 | 4.81e-9 | SOFIA | FPI | FPI+ SDSS u' filter | | SOFIA/FPI.g_sdss | 4964.96 | 5004.50 | 4933.05 | 4001.28 | 5506.61 | 719.09 | 3903.62 | 4.75e-9 | SOFIA | FPI | FPI+ SDSS g' filter | | SOFIA/FPI.r_sdss | 6259.26 | 6292.99 | 6220.83 | 5605.41 | 6968.74 | 1260.20 | 3137.94 | 2.4e-9 | SOFIA | FPI | FPI+ SDSS r' filter | | SOFIA/FPI.i_sdss | 7586.88 | 7622.15 | 7548.39 | 6865.00 | 8478.00 | 1284.98 | 2557.26 | 1.33e-9 | SOFIA | FPI | FPI+ SDSS i' filter | | SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss | 8956.76 | 9005.44 | 8931.42 | 8155.00 | 10938.00 | 1157.25 | 2235.90 | 8.36e-10 | SOFIA | FPI | FPI+ SDSS z' filter | | SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss | Filter Description | Filter ID (?) : | SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss |
| Description (?) : | FPI+ SDSS z' filter |
| Phot.System (?) : | ------ |
| Detector Type (?) : | Photon counter |
| Band Name (?) : | z |
| Obs. Facility (?) : | SOFIA |
| Instrument (?) : | FPI |
| Comments (?) : | ------ |
| | Mathematical properties | Property | Calculated | Specified | Unit | | λref (?) : |
8956.76 | ------- | (Angstrom) |
| λmean (?) : |
9005.44 | ------- | (Angstrom) |
| λcen (?) : |
8813.31 | ------- | (Angstrom) |
| λeff (?) : |
8931.42 | ------- | (Angstrom) |
| λpeak (?) : |
8350.79 | ------- | (Angstrom) |
| λpivot (?) : |
8956.76 | ------- | (Angstrom) |
| λphot (?) : |
8961.90 | ------- | (Angstrom) |
| λmin (?) : |
8155.00 | ------- | (Angstrom) |
| λmax (?) : |
10938.00 | ------- | (Angstrom) |
| Weff (?) : |
1157.25 | ------- | (Angstrom) |
| FWHM (?) : |
1117.14 | ------- | (Angstrom) |
| Af/AV (?) : |
0.511 | ------- | () |
| Fsun (?) : |
90.40 | ------- | (erg/cm2/s/A) |
| Transmission
Data file: ascii, VOTable Reference for filter response:
FPI+ Transmission components: Filter + Instrument + Atmosphereid:SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss
You can download here the GaiaXPy base XML file for the full SOFIA/FPI filter set.
Please, take a look to GaiaXPy documentation for more information. - GaiaXPy base XML file. | | Calibration properties
Vega System | Property | Specified | Calculated | Unit | | Zero Point (?) : |
------- |
8.35547e-10 | (erg/cm2/s/A) |
| |
------- |
2235.90 | (Jy) |
| ZP Type (?) : |
Pogson |
| PhotCal ID (?) : |
SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss/Vega |
| |
AB System | Property | Specified | Calculated | Unit | | Zero Point (?) : |
------- |
1.35689e-9 | (erg/cm2/s/A) |
| |
------- |
3631.00 | (Jy) |
| ZP Type (?) : |
Pogson |
| PhotCal ID (?) : |
SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss/AB |
| |
ST System | Property | Specified | Calculated | Unit | | Zero Point (?) : |
------- |
3.631e-9 | (erg/cm2/s/A) |
| |
------- |
9716.44 | (Jy) |
| ZP Type (?) : |
Pogson |
| PhotCal ID (?) : |
SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss/ST |
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Filter added: 2017-08-07 20:44:38
Last update: 2021-07-27 20:36:02 | | SOFIA/FPI.daylight | 9466.22 | 9509.28 | 9434.79 | 8198.00 | 10927.00 | 1390.65 | 2197.47 | 7.35e-10 | SOFIA | FPI | FPI+ daylight filter |
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 ≡ filter transmission<p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>Unit</b>:Angstrom<li><b>UCD</b>:em.wl</ul></td></table>',WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission<br> Vg(λ) ≡ Vega spectrum.<p><u>More info:</u><p>Vega spectrum from calspec database.<ul><li><a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014PASP..126..711B/abstract" target="_blank">Bohlin, Gordon, & Tremblay (2014)</a>.<li><a href="https://www.stsci.edu/hst/instrumentation/reference-data-for-calibration-and-tools/astronomical-catalogs/calspec" target="_blank">STScI current calspec</a>.<li><a href="morefiles/vega.dat" target="_blank">Vega spectrum file</a> (units: Angstrom erg/cm2/s/A).</ul><p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>Unit</b>:Angstrom<li><b>UCD</b>:em.wl.effective</ul></td></table>',WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission<p>Equivalent to the horizontal size of a rectangle with height equal to maximum transmission and with the same area that the one covered by the filter transmission curve.<p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>Unit</b>:Angstrom<li><b>UCD</b>:instr.bandwidth<li><b>Utype</b>: <i>photdm:PhotometryFilter.bandwidth.extent.value</i></ul></td></table>',WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission (energy counter).<br> Vg(λ) ≡ Vega spectrum.<p><i>(T(λ) must be multiplied by λ for photon counting devices)</i><p>F<sub>0,ν</sub>(Jy) = (2.9979246)<sup>-1</sup> 10<sup>5</sup> * λ<sub>ref</sub><sup>2</sup> * F<sub>0,λ</sub>(erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s/A)<p>In the case that filter owner specifies its own values, they will be the ones provided by the service when queried through the VO.<p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>Unit</b>:Jy<li><b>UCD</b>:phot.flux.density<li><b>Utype</b>: <i>photdm:PhotCal.zeroPoint.flux.value</i></ul></td></table>',WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission (energy counter).<br> Vg(λ) ≡ Vega spectrum.<p><i>(T(λ) must be multiplied by λ for photon counting devices)</i><p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>Unit</b>:erg/cm2/s/A<li><b>Utype</b>: <i>PhotCal.ZeroPoint</i></ul></td></table>',WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission<p>f(λ) ≡ flux of the spectrum<p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>UCD</b>:meta.code<li><b>Utype</b>: <i>photdm:PhotometricSystem.detectorType</i></ul></td></table>',WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission<p><img src=showgraph.php?what=lmean&val=9005.4400931849&id=SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss><p>Filter transmission is transformed to "<i>energy counter</i>" for these calculations, that is, the photon count transmission is multiplied by λ and normalized so that peak transmission is equal to 1.<p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>Unit</b>:Angstrom<li><b>UCD</b>:em.wl</ul></td></table>',STICKY,true,CLOSEBTN,true,WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission<br> Vg(λ) ≡ Vega spectrum.<p><img src=showgraph.php?what=leff&val=8931.4229786395&id=SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss><p>Filter transmission is transformed to "<i>energy counter</i>" for these calculations, that is, the photon count transmission is multiplied by λ and normalized so that peak transmission is equal to 1.<p><u>More info:</u><p>Vega spectrum from calspec database.<ul><li><a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014PASP..126..711B/abstract" target="_blank">Bohlin, Gordon, & Tremblay (2014)</a>.<li><a href="https://www.stsci.edu/hst/instrumentation/reference-data-for-calibration-and-tools/astronomical-catalogs/calspec" target="_blank">STScI current calspec</a>.<li><a href="morefiles/vega.dat" target="_blank">Vega spectrum file</a> (units: Angstrom erg/cm2/s/A).</ul><p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>Unit</b>:Angstrom<li><b>UCD</b>:em.wl.effective</ul></td></table>',STICKY,true,CLOSEBTN,true,WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission<p><img src=showgraph.php?what=lpiv&val=8956.756857387&id=SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss><p>Filter transmission is transformed to "<i>energy counter</i>" for these calculations, that is, the photon count transmission is multiplied by λ and normalized so that peak transmission is equal to 1.<p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>Unit</b>:Angstrom<li><b>UCD</b>:em.wl</ul></td></table>',STICKY,true,CLOSEBTN,true,WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission<br> Vg(λ) ≡ Vega spectrum<p><img src=showgraph.php?what=lphot&val=8961.8958272762&id=SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss><p>Filter transmission is transformed to "<i>energy counter</i>" for these calculations, that is, the photon count transmission is multiplied by λ and normalized so that peak transmission is equal to 1.<p><u>More info:</u><p>Vega spectrum from calspec database.<ul><li><a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014PASP..126..711B/abstract" target="_blank">Bohlin, Gordon, & Tremblay (2014)</a>.<li><a href="https://www.stsci.edu/hst/instrumentation/reference-data-for-calibration-and-tools/astronomical-catalogs/calspec" target="_blank">STScI current calspec</a>.<li><a href="morefiles/vega.dat" target="_blank">Vega spectrum file</a> (units: Angstrom erg/cm2/s/A).</ul><p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>Unit</b>:Angstrom<li><b>UCD</b>:em.wl</ul></td></table>',STICKY,true,CLOSEBTN,true,WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission<p>Equivalent to the horizontal size of a rectangle with height equal to maximum transmission and with the same area that the one covered by the filter transmission curve.<p><img src=showgraph.php?what=weff&val=1157.2488063238,8813.3052066877,1&id=SOFIA/FPI.z_sdss><p>Filter transmission is transformed to "<i>energy counter</i>" for these calculations, that is, the photon count transmission is multiplied by λ and normalized so that peak transmission is equal to 1.<p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>Unit</b>:Angstrom<li><b>UCD</b>:instr.bandwidth<li><b>Utype</b>: <i>photdm:PhotometryFilter.bandwidth.extent.value</i></ul></td></table>',STICKY,true,CLOSEBTN,true,WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
![(?)](javascript:Tip('<b>A<sub>f</sub>/A<sub>V</sub></b><br><table cellpadding=20><td class=helptd>Ratio between extintion at λ<sub>ref</sub> and visual extintion. <p>Calculated by the service using the extinction law by <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999PASP..111...63F" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick (1999)</a> improved by <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005ApJ...619..931I" target="_blank">Indebetouw et al (2005)</a> in the infrared. <p><img src="images/extlaw.png"><p>You can download the corresponding <a href=\"getextlaw.php\" target=\"_blank\">data file</a> for the opacity k<sub>λ</sub>. The extinction at each wavelength is calculated as: A<sub>λ</sub> = A<sub>V</sub> * k<sub>λ</sub>/k<sub>V</sub>, where k<sub>λ</sub> is the opacity for a given λ and k<sub>V</sub>=211.4<p><p><u>Property info:</u><ul></ul></td></table>',STICKY,true,CLOSEBTN,true,WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission.<br> Sun(λ) ≡ Sun spectrum.<p><img src="images/sun.png"><p><p>Filter transmission is transformed to "<i>energy counter</i>" for these calculations, that is, the photon count transmission is multiplied by λ and normalized so that peak transmission is equal to 1.<p><u>More info:</u><p>Sun spectrum from calspec database: sun_reference_stis_002 composed with sun_mod_001 for larger wavelengths.<ul><li><a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014PASP..126..711B/abstract" target="_blank">Bohlin, Gordon, & Tremblay (2014)</a>.<li><a href="https://www.stsci.edu/hst/instrumentation/reference-data-for-calibration-and-tools/astronomical-catalogs/calspec" target="_blank">STScI current calspec</a>.<li><a href="morefiles/sun.dat" target="_blank">Sun composed spectrum</a> (units: Angstrom erg/cm2/s/A).</ul><p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>Unit</b>:erg/cm2/s/A<li><b>UCD</b>:phot.flux.density</ul></td></table>',STICKY,true,CLOSEBTN,true,WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
 ≡ filter transmission.<br> Vg(λ) ≡ Vega spectrum.<p>F<sub>0,ν</sub>(Jy) = (2.9979246)<sup>-1</sup> 10<sup>5</sup> * λ<sub>ref</sub><sup>2</sup> * F<sub>0,λ</sub>(erg/cm<sup>2</sup>/s/A)<p>Filter transmission is transformed to \"<i>energy counter</i>\" for these calculations, that is, the photon count transmission is multiplied by λ and normalized so that peak transmission is equal to 1.<p>In the case that filter owner specifies its own values, they will be the ones provided by the service when queried through the VO.<p><u>VO PhotDM Utypes</u>: <br><i>PhotCal.MagnitudeSystem.type</i> -> VEGAmag <br><i>PhotCal.ZeroPoint.Flux.value</i> -> F<sub>0</sub><p><u>More info:</u><p>Vega spectrum from calspec database.<ul><li><a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014PASP..126..711B/abstract" target="_blank">Bohlin, Gordon, & Tremblay (2014)</a>.<li><a href="https://www.stsci.edu/hst/instrumentation/reference-data-for-calibration-and-tools/astronomical-catalogs/calspec" target="_blank">STScI current calspec</a>.<li><a href="morefiles/vega.dat" target="_blank">Vega spectrum file</a> (units: Angstrom erg/cm2/s/A).</ul><p><u>Property info:</u><ul><li><b>UCD</b>:phot.flux.density<li><b>Utype</b>: <i>photdm:PhotCal.ZeroPoint.Flux.value</i></ul></td></table>',STICKY,true,CLOSEBTN,true,WIDTH,400)){kind=link}
