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update Gaia curves to edr3 (Riello 21); add docs about Vega reference.
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Expand Up @@ -50,3 +50,15 @@ Finally, you can simply pass a tuple of ``(wavelength, transmission)``:
from sedpy import observate
filt = observate.Filter("filter_name", data=(wavelength, transmission)
Vega reference
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By default ``sedpy`` produces AB magnitudes. However, for each filter a
conversion to Vega zeropoints is computed. This is based on a Vega reference
spectrum from the HST calspec database, as discussed in
`Bolin07 <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ASPC..364..315B/abstract>`_ and
`Bohlin14 <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014AJ....147..127B/abstract>`_ .
The version used corresponds to the one
`here <https://ssb.stsci.edu/cdbs/calspec_ascii_review/>`_ .
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