Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey Multi-Epoch Ks-Band Photometry (VMC)
| Title | VISTA Magellanic Survey Multi-Epoch Ks-Band Photometry (VMC) |
| Version | 2 |
| Data Provider/P.I. | Maria-Rosa L. Cioni |
| Data Collection | VMC |
| Data Release | DR3 |
| Submission Date | 2014-09-03 |
| Publication Date | 2015-01-02 |
| Obsolete Date | |
| Description |
This catalogue data release refers to five new individual tile images for VMC tiles completed by October 2012 and two re-processed tiles. These images have at least twelve epochs in Ks band. The total sky coverage of this release is 7.5 deg^2 in the LMC and 3 deg^2 in the SMC.
Please refer to the full data release description for further information. |
| Telescope | ESO-VISTA |
| Instrument | VIRCAM |
| Technique of Observation | IMAGE,JITTER |
| Start of Observations | 55,140.241 (2009-11-05T18:47:07) |
| End of Observations | 56,207.167 (2012-10-07T18:00:33) |
| Filter Set/bands | Ks |
| Sky Solid Angle | 10.5 |
| Number of Records | 44778424 |
| Number of Columns | 7 |
| Reference | 2011A&A...527A.116C |
| Acknowledgment Policy | Please include the following acknowledgment in any published material that makes use of this data product: Based on data obtained from the ESO Science Archive Facility with DOI: https://doi.org/10.18727/archive/64 |
| Position | Name | Description | Data Type | Data Size | UCD | Physical Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PHOT_ID | UID for observation. Combination of source and detection UIDs | INT64 | 1 | meta.id;meta.main | |
| 2 | IAUNAME | IAU Name (not unique) | STRING | 29 | meta.id | |
| 3 | SOURCEID | UID of this merged detection | INT64 | 1 | meta.id | |
| 4 | MJD | Modified Julian Day in Ks band | DOUBLE | 1 | time.epoch | days |
| 5 | KSMAG | Default source Ks aperture corrected mag 2.0 arcsec diam | FLOAT | 1 | phot.mag;em.IR.K;em.IR.K | mag |
| 6 | KSERR | Error in default source Ks mag 2.0 arcsec diam | FLOAT | 1 | stat.error;em.IR.K;phot.mag;em.IR.K | mag |
| 7 | KSPPERRBITS | additional WFAU post-processing error bits in Ks | INT32 | 1 | meta.code;em.IR.K;em.IR.K |