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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey: stellar proper motions

Title VISTA Magellanic Survey: stellar proper motions
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 Catalogue of stellar proper motions 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 59,965.193 (2023-01-21T16:38:01)
Filter Set/bands Y J Ks
Sky Solid Angle 165.088
Number of Records 11440429
Number of Columns 20
Reference 2015MNRAS.449..639R
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 DISTANCEMINS Angular separation between neighbours FLOAT 1 pos.angDistance arcminutes
4 UNIQUEID UID of star in the proper motion catalogue INT64 1 meta.id;meta.main
5 FIELDNAME ID of field STRING 8 meta.id
6 FRAMESETID frame set ID, linked to vmcMergeLog, assigned by merging procedure INT64 1 meta.id
7 CUEVENTID UID of curation event giving rise to this record INT32 1 meta.id
8 RA2000 Average celestial Right Ascension of source from VMC PSF catalogue DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
9 DEC2000 Average celestial Declination of source from VMC PSF catalogue DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
10 CX unit vector of spherical co-ordinates DOUBLE 1 pos.cartesian.x;pos.eq
11 CY unit vector of spherical co-ordinates DOUBLE 1 pos.cartesian.y;pos.eq
12 CZ unit vector of spherical co-ordinates DOUBLE 1 pos.cartesian.z;pos.eq
13 HTMID Hierarchical Triangular Mesh (HTM) index, 20 deep INT64 1 pos.HTM
14 L Galactic longitude DOUBLE 1 pos.galactic.lon deg
15 B Galactic latitude DOUBLE 1 pos.galactic.lat deg
16 PMXI PM in Xi direction DOUBLE 1 pos.pm mas/yr
17 PMETA PM in Eta direction DOUBLE 1 pos.pm mas/yr
18 RMSX Rms of PM in Xi direction DOUBLE 1 pos.pm;stat.error mas/yr
19 RMSY Rms of PM in Eta direction DOUBLE 1 pos.pm;stat.error mas/yr
20 EPOCH Epoch of position in PM calculaton DOUBLE 1 time.epoch