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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey: Cepheids

Title VISTA Magellanic Survey: Cepheids
Version 4
Data Provider/P.I. Maria-Rosa L. Cioni
Data Collection VMC
Data Release DR7
Submission Date 2025-12-09
Publication Date 2025-12-19
Description
Please refer to the full data release description for further information.
Telescope ESO-VISTA
Instrument VIRCAM
Technique of Observation IMAGE,JITTER
Start of Observations 55,139.293 (2009-11-04T19:01:32)
End of Observations 59,972.087 (2023-01-28T14:05:20)
Filter Set/bands Y J Ks
Sky Solid Angle 151.581
Number of Records 9803
Number of Columns 24
Reference 2024A&A...685A..41S
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 UNIQUEID UID of VMC variables INT64 1 meta.id;meta.main
4 CUEVENTID UID of curation event giving rise to this record INT32 1 meta.id
5 RA2000 Celestial Right Ascension DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
6 DEC2000 Celestial Declination DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
7 CEPHTYPE Type of Cepheid, e.g. DCEP STRING 16 meta.code.class
8 CEPHMODE Mode of Cepheid e.g. F0 STRING 16 meta.code.class
9 VMEANMAG Mean V band magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.opt.V mag
10 PERIOD Period of first mode of oscillation FLOAT 1 time.period day
11 YMEANMAG Intensity-averaged Y band magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.IR.NIR mag
12 YMAGERR Error in intensity-averaged Y band magnitude FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.NIR mag
13 YAMPL Peak-to-Peak amplitude in Y band FLOAT 1 src.var.amplitude;em.IR.NIR mag
14 YAMPLERR Error in Peak-to-Peak amplitude in Y band FLOAT 1 stat.error;src.var.amplitude;em.IR.NIR mag
15 JMEANMAG Intensity-averaged J band magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.IR.J mag
16 JMAGERR Error in intensity-averaged J band magnitude FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
17 JAMPL Peak-to-Peak amplitude in J band FLOAT 1 src.var.amplitude;em.IR.J mag
18 JAMPLERR Error in Peak-to-Peak amplitude in J band FLOAT 1 stat.error;src.var.amplitude;em.IR.J mag
19 KSMEANMAG Intensity-averaged Ks band magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.IR.K mag
20 KSMAGERR Error in intensity-averaged Ks band magnitude FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
21 KSAMPL Peak-to-Peak amplitude in Ks band FLOAT 1 src.var.amplitude;em.IR.K mag
22 KSAMPLERR Error in Peak-to-Peak amplitude in Ks band FLOAT 1 stat.error;src.var.amplitude;em.IR.K mag
23 EVI The dust extinction value E(V-I) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption.gal mag
24 EXTERNALID Identification from the EROS-2 or OGLE III catalogues. STRING 32 meta.id