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                            Bilir, S.; Karaali, S.; Daǧtekin, N. D.; Önal, Ö.; Ak, S.; Ak, T.; Cabrera-Lavers, A.
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                                    Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 29, Issue 2, pp. 121-131.
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                            Description
                                    We present colour transformations for the conversion of Wide-Field
Survey Explorer W1, W2, and W3 magnitudes to the Johnson-Cousins
BVIc, Sloan Digital Sky Survey gri, and Two Micron All Sky
Survey JHKs photometric systems, for red clump (RC) stars. RC
stars were selected from the Third Radial Velocity Experiment Data
Release. The apparent magnitudes were collected by matching the
coordinates of this sample with different photometric catalogues. The
final sample (355 RC stars) was used to obtain metallicity-dependent and
free-of-metallicity transformations. These transformations combined with
known absolute magnitudes at shorter wavelengths can be used in space
density determinations for the Galactic (thin and thick) discs at
distances larger than the ones evaluated with JHKs photometry
alone, hence providing a powerful tool in the analysis of Galactic
structure.
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