Journal article
Calibration of the MACHO Photometry Database
Abstract
The MACHO Project is a microlensing survey that monitors the brightnesses of ∼60 million stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), Small Magellanic Cloud, and Galactic bulge. Our database presently contains about 80 billion photometric measurements, a significant fraction of all astronomical photometry. We describe the calibration of MACHO two‐color photometry and transformation to the standard Kron‐Cousins V and R system. Calibrated MACHO …
Authors
Alcock C; Allsman RA; Alves DR; Axelrod TS; Becker AC; Bennett DP; Cook KH; Drake AJ; Freeman KC; Geha M
Journal
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 111, No. 766, pp. 1539–1558
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Publication Date
December 1999
DOI
10.1086/316469
ISSN
1538-3873