European
Southern
Observatory

ESO — Reaching New Heights in Astronomy

Austria Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Netherlands Poland Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland UK Chile

Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey Catalogue of Cepheids (VMC)

Title VISTA Magellanic Survey Catalogue of Cepheids (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 known classical Cepheid stars in VMC tiles completed by end of Octobr 2012 (Ripepi et al. 2012). These are tiles LMC 6_6 (including the 30 Doradus star forming region) and LMC 8_8 (including the South Ecliptic Pole region). The total sky coverage of this release is <3.5 deg^2 in the LMC.
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 (2009-11-05T17:47:57)
End of Observations 56,207.167 (2012-10-07T16:01:23)
Filter Set/bands Ks
Sky Solid Angle 3
Number of Records 332
Number of Columns 16
Reference 2012MNRAS.424.1807R
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 IAUNAME IAU Name (not unique) STRING 29 meta.id
2 SOURCEID UID of this merged detection as assigned by merge algorithm INT64 1 meta.id
3 VARID UID of VMC variables INT64 1 meta.id;meta.main
4 FIELDID ID of field STRING 8 meta.id
5 CUEVENTID UID of curation event giving rise to this record INT32 1 meta.bib
6 RA2000 Celestial Right Ascension DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
7 DEC2000 Celestial Declination DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
8 CEPHMODE Type of Cepheid STRING 5 meta.code.class
9 IMEANMAG Mean I band magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.opt.I mag
10 VMEANMAG Mean V band magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.opt.V mag
11 PERIOD Period of first mode of oscillation FLOAT 1 time.period day
12 KSMEANMAG Mean Ks band magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.IR.K mag
13 KSAMPL Amplitude of Ks band magnitude variation FLOAT 1 src.var.amplitude;em.IR.K mag
14 KSMAGERR Error in mean Ks band magnitude FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
15 EVI The dust extinction value E(V-I) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption.gal mag
16 NOTES Additional information, a means that the star was not used to derive STRING 8 meta.code.qual