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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey: Young Stellar Objects

Title VISTA Magellanic Survey: Young Stellar Objects
Version 1
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 Catalogues for young stellar objects in the VMC survey area
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 (2009-11-04T19:02:01)
End of Observations 59,964.136 (2023-01-20T15:15:56)
Filter Set/bands Y J Ks
Sky Solid Angle 9.005
Number of Records 3018
Number of Columns 13
Reference 2020MNRAS.494..458Z
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 RA2000 Celestial Right Ascension from VMC DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
5 DEC2000 Celestial Declination from VMC DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
6 VARBANDS Band(s) in which variability was indentified STRING 8 meta.note
7 YMAG Apparent Y band magnitude from VMC deep stack FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.NIR mag
8 JMAG Apparent J band magnitude from VMC deep stack FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.IR.J mag
9 KSMAG Apparent Ks band magnitude from VMC deep stack FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.IR.K mag
10 JAMPL Peak-to-Peak amplitude in J band FLOAT 1 src.var.amplitude;em.IR.J mag
11 KSAMPL Peak-to-Peak amplitude in Ks band FLOAT 1 src.var.amplitude;em.IR.K mag
12 VARTYPE Type of variable according to OGLE database STRING 16 meta.code.class
13 CUEVENTID UID of curation event giving rise to this record INT32 1 meta.id