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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey: extinction Y-Ks

Title VISTA Magellanic Survey: extinction Y-Ks
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 Catalog containing reddening information: extinction Y-Ks
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 59,965.193 (2023-01-21T16:38:01)
Filter Set/bands Y J Ks
Sky Solid Angle 148.579
Number of Records 2900021
Number of Columns 15
Reference 2021MNRAS.504.2983T
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 QSO INT64 1 meta.id;meta.main
4 GALAXY Galaxy, LMC/SMC STRING 8 meta.code.class
5 RA2000 RA in degrees (J2000) from the VMC catalogue DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
6 DEC2000 DEC in degrees (J2000) from the VMC catalogue DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
7 CX unit vector of spherical co-ordinates DOUBLE 1 pos.cartesian.x;pos.eq
8 CY unit vector of spherical co-ordinates DOUBLE 1 pos.cartesian.y;pos.eq
9 CZ unit vector of spherical co-ordinates DOUBLE 1 pos.cartesian.z;pos.eq
10 HTMID Hierarchical Triangular Mesh (HTM) index, 20 deep INT64 1 pos.HTM
11 L Galactic longitude DOUBLE 1 pos.galactic.lon deg
12 B Galactic latitude DOUBLE 1 pos.galactic.lat deg
13 EYKS E(Y-Ks) reddening value. FLOAT 1 phot.color.excess mag
14 EYKSSMTH E(Y-Ks) smoothed reddening value. FLOAT 1 phot.color.excess mag
15 CUEVENTID UID of curation event giving rise to this record INT32 1 meta.id