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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey Multi-Epoch J-Band Photometry (VMC)

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 J band DOUBLE 1 time.epoch days
5 JMAG Default source J aperture corrected mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J;em.IR.J mag
6 JERR Error in default source J mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.J;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
7 JPPERRBITS additional WFAU post-processing error bits in J INT32 1 meta.code;em.IR.J;em.IR.J