JHK standard stars for large telescopes: the UKIRT Fundamental and Extended lists

• DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04460.x
• Publication Date: 2003-03-12T13:40:46Z
• Authors: T. G. Hawarden; S. K. Leggett; M. B. Letawsky; D. R. Ballantyne; M. M. Casali
• Keywords: Astrophysics (astro-ph); 0103 physical sciences; FOS: Physical sciences; Astrophysics; 01 natural sciences

13 pages includes one figure, accepted by MNRAS Feb 2001 Revised Version with a transformation typo corrected<br/>We present high-precision JHK photometry with the 3.8m UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) of 83 standard stars, 28 from the widely used preliminary list known as the "UKIRT Faint Standards" (Casali & Hawarden, 1992), referred to here as the Fundamental List, and 55 additional stars referred to as the Extended List. The stars have 9.4<br/>