Data for: "A partial near infrared guide star catalog for Thirty Meter Telescope Operations"

This .zip file contains the infrared guide star catalogs (IRGSC) generated using optical data (in g, r, i, z, and y bands) from the PANSTARRS DR2 for twenty test fields selected across the TMT's observable sky. The IRGSC is generated by computing the near infrared (J, H and K band) magnitudes of the stellar sources using the Kurucz and Phoenix stellar atmospheric models. Each source in the IRGSC is likely to be stellar and contains the respective PANSTARRS and GAIA object identifiers , their astrometric information from Gaia DR3, the optical and computed NIR magnitudes, the model parameters, the scale factor and the metric d_dev that determines the goodness-of-fit of the model to the data. In addition, the test fields also contain the infrared guide star catalog validated using the UKIDSS DR11 data and plots that show the comparison between the computed NIR magnitudes and observed UKIDSS NIR magnitudes.

Inside this .zip file, there is also another directory that contains the IRGSC generated for additional PANSTARRS Medium Deep Survey fields with readily available PANSTARRS 3pi survey data. Some plots are included that show the efficiency of star-galaxy classification and completeness of the 3-pi survey data for these fields.

More details and the code to generate IRGSC can be found here