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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey Multi-Epoch Y-Band Photometry (VMC)

Position Name Description Data Type Data Size UCD Physical Unit
1 PHOT_ID UID for observation. Combination of source and detection UIDs INT64 1 meta.id;meta.main
2 IAUNAME IAU Name (not unique) STRING 29 meta.id
3 SOURCEID UID of this merged detection INT64 1 meta.id
4 MJD Modified Julian Day in Y band DOUBLE 1 time.epoch days
5 YMAG Default source Y aperture corrected mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.NIR;em.IR.NIR mag
6 YERR Error in default source Y mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.NIR;phot.mag;em.IR.NIR mag
7 YPPERRBITS additional WFAU post-processing error bits in Y INT32 1 meta.code;em.IR.NIR;em.IR.NIR