Mass Computations of the Brightness of Stars in an Arbitrary Spectral Band

Abstract

The problem of calculating the brightness of an array of stars in an arbitrary photometric band, which is not the standard band of astronomical photometry, is considered from their multicolor photometry in some other photometric system. A similar problem is to transfer photometric measurements of stars from one multicolor photometric system to another. This task includes methods for calculating and comparing magnitudes, as well as merging photometric catalogs. The questions of choice of various zero-points of photometry and reduction of measurements for the atmosphere are considered. The issues of reducing the error of the proposed methods are discussed. The article is partly based on a report presented at the conference “Modern Stellar Astronomy-2022”, held at the Caucasian Mountain Observatory of the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, in November 8–10, 2022.