2.1.2. Science info from UKIDSS
This subsection is heavily paraphrased from the
UKIDSS website, technical section - filters.
The bandpass of the WFCAM Z filter (0.83-0.925µm) was designed
to provide a reasonable match to the effective wavelength of the SDSS
z' bandpass, but with a rectangular profile, and avoiding the
atmospheric absorption band near 0.95µm. The two bandpasses are
compared in Figure 2.4, “UKIDSS WFCAM Z filter profile”.
The specified WFCAM Z profile is shown in red. The array quantum
efficiency is approximately flat over this wavelength range. The SDSS
z' bandpass is defined by the long-pass z' filter and the falling
q.e. of the CCDs towards longer wavelengths, multiplied by the
atmospheric transmission. The normalised z' system throughput is shown
as the grey dash-dot line. The effective wavelengths of the WFCAM Z
and SDSS z' bandpasses are 0.876µm and 0.887µm, respectively
(effective wavelength as defined by Schneider et al. (1993) ApJ, 264,
337).