Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey: Catalog of Variables

Title	VISTA Magellanic Survey: Catalog of Variables
Version	3
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	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 (2009-11-04T19:01:32)
End of Observations	59,972.087 (2023-01-28T14:05:20)
Filter Set/bands	Y J Ks
Sky Solid Angle	169.59
Number of Records	248917
Number of Columns	11
Reference	2011A&A...527A.116C
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	INT64	1	meta.id;meta.main
3	YMEANMAG	Mean Y magnitude	FLOAT	1	phot.mag;em.IR.NIR;stat.mean;em.IR.NIR	mag
4	YAMPL	Amplitude of variable in y-band	FLOAT	1	src.var.amplitude;em.IR.NIR;em.IR.NIR	mag
5	YPROBVAR	Probability of variable from chi-square (and other data)	FLOAT	1	stat.probability;em.IR.NIR
6	JMEANMAG	Mean J magnitude	FLOAT	1	phot.mag;em.IR.J;stat.mean;em.IR.J	mag
7	JAMPL	Amplitude of variable in j-band	FLOAT	1	src.var.amplitude;em.IR.J;em.IR.J	mag
8	JPROBVAR	Probability of variable from chi-square (and other data)	FLOAT	1	stat.probability;em.IR.J
9	KSMEANMAG	Mean Ks magnitude	FLOAT	1	phot.mag;em.IR.K;stat.mean;em.IR.K	mag
10	KSAMPL	Amplitude of variable in ks-band	FLOAT	1	src.var.amplitude;em.IR.K;em.IR.K	mag
11	KSPROBVAR	Probability of variable from chi-square (and other data)	FLOAT	1	stat.probability;em.IR.K

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