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Details - VVV: Catalogue of Variables in the Via Lactea

Position Name Description Data Type Data Size UCD Physical Unit
1 IAUNAME IAU Name (not unique) STRING 29 meta.id
2 SOURCEID UID of this merged detection INT64 1 meta.id;meta.main
3 KSMEANMAG Mean Ks magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.K;stat.mean;em.IR.K mag
4 KSAMPL Amplitude of variable in ks-band FLOAT 1 src.var.amplitude;em.IR.K;em.IR.K Mag
5 KSPROBVAR Probability of variable from chi-square (and other data) FLOAT 1 stat.probability;em.IR.K