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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey: extinction J-Ks

Title VISTA Magellanic Survey: extinction J-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 J-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 (2009-11-04T19:02:33)
End of Observations 59,960.26 (2023-01-16T18:15:02)
Filter Set/bands Y J Ks
Sky Solid Angle 13.507
Number of Records 150093
Number of Columns 28
Reference 2013A&A...554A..33T
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 RA2000 RA in degrees (J2000) from the VMC catalogue DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
5 DEC2000 DEC in degrees (J2000) from the VMC catalogue DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
6 CX unit vector of spherical co-ordinates DOUBLE 1 pos.cartesian.x;pos.eq
7 CY unit vector of spherical co-ordinates DOUBLE 1 pos.cartesian.y;pos.eq
8 CZ unit vector of spherical co-ordinates DOUBLE 1 pos.cartesian.z;pos.eq
9 HTMID Hierarchical Triangular Mesh (HTM) index, 20 deep INT64 1 pos.HTM
10 L Galactic longitude DOUBLE 1 pos.galactic.lon deg
11 B Galactic latitude DOUBLE 1 pos.galactic.lat deg
12 EJKS E(J-Ks) reddening value. FLOAT 1 phot.color.excess mag
13 N30AS Number of sources within 30 arcsec INT16 1 meta.number
14 SIG30AS Standard deviation of sources within 30" (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.stdev mag
15 MEAN30AS Average extinction of sources within 30" (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.mean mag
16 MED30AS Median extinction of sources within 30" (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.median mag
17 MAX30AS Maximum extinction of sources within 30" (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.max mag
18 N1AM Number of sources within 1 arcmin INT16 1 meta.number
19 SIG1AM Standard deviation of sources within 1' (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.stdev mag
20 MEAN1AM Average extinction of sources within 1' (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.mean mag
21 MED1AM Median extinction of sources within 1' (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.median mag
22 MAX1AM Maximum extinction of sources within 1' (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.max mag
23 N5AM Number of sources within 5 arcmin INT16 1 meta.number
24 SIG5AM Standard deviation of sources within 5' (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.stdev mag
25 MEAN5AM Average extinction of sources within 5' (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.mean mag
26 MED5AM Median extinction of sources within 5' (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.median mag
27 MAX5AM Maximum extinction of sources within 5' (1) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption;stat.max mag
28 CUEVENTID UID of curation event giving rise to this record INT32 1 meta.id