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How Standards are Tabulated

There are two ways in which the standard-star data are tabulated, both are tables of fluxes versus wavelengths: in one, each point has a corresponding pass-band width; in the other, each point is a fit to a continuum curve. In the first case, the published standard and your observed standard should look the same once the flux in the appropriate pass bands has been summed - even when absorption features are present in the spectrum. In the second case you must either fit a continuum to your data or, if there are no absorption features present in the wavelength range covered, you might just interpolate between the points in the published standard.



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Simple Spectroscopy Reductions
Starlink Cookbook 7
Martin Clayton and Anthony Holloway
15 June 1998
E-mail:starlink@jiscmail.ac.uk

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