TY - JOUR
KW - Artificial light
KW - Celestial bodies
KW - Ground based
KW - Light pollution
KW - Luminance
KW - Photometric systems
KW - Photometry
KW - Pollution
KW - Quantitative measurement
KW - Transformation constant
KW - Visual effects
AU - Salvador Bara
AB - A relevant number of light pollution studies deal with unwanted visual effects of artificial light at night, including the anthropogenic luminance of the sky that hinders the observation of celestial bodies which are the main target of ground-based astrophysical research, and a key asset of the intangible heritage of humankind. Most quantitative measurements and numerical models, however, evaluate the anthropogenic sky radiance in any of the standard Johnson-Cousins UBVRI photometric bands, generally in the V one. Since the Johnson-Cousins V band is not identical with the visual CIE V(λ) used to assess luminance, the conversion between these two photometric systems turns out to be spectrum-dependent. Given its interest for practical applications, in this Letter we provide the framework to perform this conversion and the transformation constants for black-body spectra of different absolute temperatures.
BT - Photonics Letters of Poland
DO - 10.4302/plp.v11i3.926
LA - English
M1 - 3
N1 - Publisher: Photonics Society of Poland
N2 - A relevant number of light pollution studies deal with unwanted visual effects of artificial light at night, including the anthropogenic luminance of the sky that hinders the observation of celestial bodies which are the main target of ground-based astrophysical research, and a key asset of the intangible heritage of humankind. Most quantitative measurements and numerical models, however, evaluate the anthropogenic sky radiance in any of the standard Johnson-Cousins UBVRI photometric bands, generally in the V one. Since the Johnson-Cousins V band is not identical with the visual CIE V(λ) used to assess luminance, the conversion between these two photometric systems turns out to be spectrum-dependent. Given its interest for practical applications, in this Letter we provide the framework to perform this conversion and the transformation constants for black-body spectra of different absolute temperatures.
PY - 2019
SP - 63
EP - 65
T2 - Photonics Letters of Poland
TI - Black-body luminance and magnitudes per square arcsecond in the Johnson-Cousins BVR photometric bands
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85073565416&doi=10.4302%2fplp.v11i3.926&partnerID=40&md5=8173fb19e6878328c2179d75609e44c4
VL - 11
SN - 20802242 (ISSN)
ER -