Zero mag fluxes and Conversions

Zero mag fluxes and Conversions

Fluxes from a Zero mag Source and Conversion of Magnitudes to Janskys and F-Lambda

The tables below give bandpass, effective or isophotal wavelength or frequency for the bandpass (see this discussion for important notes on definitions), flux in Wm-2 µm-1 and Jansky, and AB mags, for a zero magnitude source. One Jansky represents an incident energy flux density of 10-26 W m-2 Hz-1. The two datasets below were calculated in slightly different ways, but the results agree within 2%.

WFCAM ZY and Mauna Kea Filter Bandpasses

Tokunaga & Vacca 2005 PASP and priv. comm.P. Hewett priv. comm.
BandIsophotal Wavelenth (µm)Flux
(Wm-2µm-1)
Isophotal
Frequency
(Hz
)
S (Jy)AB mag Effective
Wavelength
(µm)
Flux
(Wm-2

µm-1)
S (Jy)AB
mag
V0.54503.58E-085.490E+1436300.026
Z0.92068.74e-093.071E+1422700.5350.88178.59E-0922320.528
Y1.0365.81e-092.870E+1420600.6401.03055.71E-0920260.634
J1.2503.01e-092.394E+1415600.9411.24832.94E-0915300.938
H1.644
1.18e-091.802E+1410401.381.63131.14E-0910191.379
K’2.1214.57e-101.413E+146861.84
Ks2.1494.35e-101.395E+146701.86
K2.1984.00e-101.364E+146451.902.20103.89E-106301.900
L’3.7545.31e-117.982E+132492.93
M’4.7022.22e-116.350E+131633.40

Older Filter Bandpasses
Beckwith et al. (1976, ApJ, 208, 390), with modifications at
10 and 20 microns to be consistent with Tokunaga (1984, AJ, 89, 172)

Band (µm)S (Jy)Flux (Wm-2 µm-1)
   
V (0.5556)35403.44e-08
I (0.9)22508.25e-09
J (1.25)16003.07e-09
H (1.65)10201.12e-09
K (2.20)6574.07e-10
L (3.45)2907.30e-11
L'(3.80)2525.24e-11
M (4.80)1632.12e-11
(7.8)65.33.22e-12
(8.7)53.02.10e-12
(9.8)42.31.32e-12
N (10.1)39.81.17e-12
(10.3)38.51.09e-12
(11.6)30.56.81e-13
(12.5)26.45.07e-13
Q (20.0)10.47.80e-14