International Liquid Mirror Telescope; Astrometric calibration
Abstract :
[en] The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-m class survey telescope that has recently achieved first light and is expected to swing into full operation very soon. It scans the sky in a fixed 22′ wide strip centered at the declination of 29∘21′41′′ and works in Time Delay Integration (TDI) mode. We present a full catalog of sources in the ILMT strip that can serve as astrometric calibrators. The characteristics of the sources for astrometric calibration are extracted from Gaia EDR3 as it provides an exact measurement of astrometric properties such as RA (α), Dec (δ), parallax (π), and proper motions (μα∗ & μδ). We have crossmatched the Gaia EDR3 with SDSS DR17 and PanSTARRS-1 (PS1) and supplemented the catalog with apparent magnitudes of these sources in g, r, and i filters. We also present a catalog of spectroscopically confirmed white dwarfs with Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) magnitudes that may serve as photometric calibrators. The catalogs generated are stored in an SQLite database for query-based access. We also report the offsets in equatorial positions compared to Gaia for an astrometrically calibrated TDI frame observed with the ILMT.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Dukiya, Naveen; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Bhavya Ailawadhi; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Talat Akhunov; National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Ermanno Borra; Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Monalisa Dubey; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Jiuyang Fu; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Baldeep Grewal; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Paul Hickson; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Brajesh Kumar; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Kuntal Misra; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Vibhore Negi; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Kumar Pranshu; Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational sciencES, Nainital, India
Ethen Sun; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Surdej, Jean ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO)