XSHOOTER spectrophotometric standard stars

The X-shooter calibration plan consists of a number of fully flux-calibrated available spectrophotometric standard stars, see the table below. We have an observatory dedicated queue which contains the IFU and SLT OBs for each of the standard star listed. The used slit width is 5 arcsec. The readout mode is 100kH,1x1,high in both the UVB and VIS arms. Users interested in specphot observations with different slit widths and readout modes, or with a different strategy than those adopted in the instrument calibration plan, should request the necessary telescope time during phase 1 and provide the OB during phase 2. 

Star Name
SpcT
V
Coordinates (J2000): RA DEC
Proper Motion (mas/yr)
SIMBAD link
LTT7987
DA
12.18
20 10 56.8453 -30 13 06.639
-345.60 -250.49
LTT7987/GJ2147
Feige 110
DA
11.83
23 19 58.3977 -05 09 56.207
-11.45 -4.93
Feige110/NSV14503
EG 274
DA
11.03
16 23 33.8367 -39 13 46.163
75.52 0.05
EG274/NSV7674
LTT 3218
DAs
12.00
08 41 32.56 -32 56 34.9
-984 1262
LTT3218/GJ318
EG 21
DA
11.1
03 10 31.0229 -68 36 03.389
41.87 -104.14
EG21/NSV1075
GD71
DAw
13.06
05 52 27.61 +15 53 13.8
85 -174
GD71
GD153
DAw
13.40
12 57 02.34 +22 01 52.7
-46 -204
GD153

GD71 and GD153 are HST fundamental flux standard. By clicking on their star name you can retrieve the corresponding fluxtable from the STScI Calibration Data Base .

The flux tables of the stars used in the calibration plan are available in VIZIER.

More information is provided in Moehler et al. (2014).

When using these fluxes please refer to the publications: