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Details - VVV: Multi-Epoch Ks-Band Photometry in the Via Lactea

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 The mean Modified Julian Day of each detection DOUBLE 1 time.epoch day
5 KSMAG Calibrated and corrected aperture mag 3 plus saturation correction FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
6 KSERR Error in calibrated aperture magnitude 3 FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.K mag