J-PLUS: Systematic impact of metallicity on photometric calibration with the stellar locus

López-Sanjuan, C.; Yuan, H.; Vázquez Ramió, H.; Varela, J.; Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.; Tremblay, P. -E.; Marín-Franch, A.; Cenarro, A. J.; Ederoclite, A.; Alfaro, E. J.; Alvarez-Candal, A.; Daflon, S.; Hernán-Caballero, A.; Hernández-Monteagudo, C.; Jiménez-Esteban, F. M.; Placco, V. M.; Tempel, E.; Alcaniz, J.; Angulo, R. E.; Dupke, R. A.; Moles, M.; Sodré, L.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics

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10
2021
Number of authors
22
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
18
Refereed citations
17
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Aims: We present the photometric calibration of the twelve optical passbands for the Javalambre Photometric Local Universe Survey (J-PLUS) second data release (DR2), comprising 1088 pointings of two square degrees, and study the systematic impact of metallicity on the stellar locus technique.
Methods: The [Fe/H] metallicity from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) for 146 184 high-quality calibration stars, defined with signal-to-noise ratio larger than ten in J-PLUS passbands and larger than three in Gaia parallax, was used to compute the metallicity-dependent stellar locus (ZSL). The initial homogenization of J-PLUS photometry, performed with a unique stellar locus, was refined by including the metallicity effect in colors via the ZSL.
Results: The variation of the average metallicity along the Milky Way produces a systematic offset in J-PLUS calibration. This effect is well above 1% for the bluer passbands and amounts 0.07, 0.07, 0.05, 0.03, and 0.02 mag in u, J0378, J0395, J0410, and J0430, respectively. We modeled this effect with the Milky Way location of the J-PLUS pointing, also providing an updated calibration for those observations without LAMOST information. The estimated accuracy in the calibration after including the metallicity effect is at 1% for the bluer J-PLUS passbands and below for the rest.
Conclusions: Photometric calibration with the stellar locus technique is prone to significant systematic bias in the Milky Way for passbands bluer than λ = 4500 Å. The calibration method for J-PLUS DR2 reaches 1-2% precision and 1% accuracy for 12 optical filters within an area of 2176 square degrees.
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