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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey: backgroung Galaxies

Title VISTA Magellanic Survey: backgroung Galaxies
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 the background galaxies 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 139.574
Number of Records 2517227
Number of Columns 22
Reference 2023MNRAS.516..824B
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 background source catalogue INT64 1 meta.id;meta.main
4 TABLEID Table name - paper, table no STRING 32 meta.id
5 TABLEROW UID of background source catalogue INT64 1 meta.id
6 RA2000 RA in degrees (J2000) from the VMC catalogue DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
7 DEC2000 DEC in degrees (J2000) from the VMC catalogue DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
8 ZBEST Best fitting photometric redshift FLOAT 1 src.redshift.phot
9 ZBESTLOW Lower error on zBEST (1 sigma) FLOAT 1 stat.error
10 ZBESTHIGH Upper error on zBEST (1 sigma) FLOAT 1 stat.error;stat.max
11 ZML Maximum likelihood photometric redshift FLOAT 1 src.redshift.phot
12 ZMLLOW Lower error on zML (1 sigma) FLOAT 1 stat.error
13 ZMLHIGH Upper error on zML (1 sigma) FLOAT 1 stat.error;stat.max
14 TEMPLATE_GQ Best fitting galaxy/QSO template INT16 1 meta.id;stat.fit
15 CHI2_GQ Chi-squared for the best fitting galaxy/QSO template DOUBLE 1 stat.fit.chi2
16 EBV Best fitting reddening E(B-V) FLOAT 1 phot.color.excess
17 DISTMOD Best fitting distance modulus FLOAT 1 phot.mag.distMod
18 NUMBERBANDS Number of photometric bands in the SED INT16 1 meta.number
19 CONTEXT Combination of phtometric bands in the SED INT16 1 meta.code
20 TEMPLATE_S Best fitting stellar template INT16 1 meta.id;stat.fit
21 CHI2_S Chi-squared for the best fitting stellar template DOUBLE 1 stat.fit.chi2
22 CUEVENTID UID of curation event giving rise to this record INT32 1 meta.id