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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey Catalogue of Eclipsing Binaries (VMC)

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 CATALOGUE Name of the external catalogue containing the counterparts STRING 16 meta.id
7 EXTERNALID Identification from the EROS-2 or OGLE III catalogues. STRING 32 meta.id
8 RA2000 Celestial Right Ascension DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
9 DEC2000 Celestial Declination DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
10 NEPOCHS Number of epochs in the Ks-band INT32 1 meta.number
11 KSMAX Ks magnitude at maximum light, determined by fitting with GRATIS FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.max;em.IR.K mag
12 KSMAXERR Error on Ks magnitude at maximum light FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
13 PERIOD Period from the external catalogue. FLOAT 1 time.period day
14 EPOCHMIN Epoch of minimum light (JD-2,400,000). FLOAT 1 time.epoch day
15 NOTES EROS: "cont.-like","non-contact"; OGLE: "checked" (by GRATIS), "n/c" STRING 16 meta.code.qual
16 ORIGVSAREL VSA release from which Ks data was used STRING 16 meta.id
17 ORIGVSASOURCEID VSA sourceID in VSA release from which Ks data was used INT64 1 meta.id