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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey Catalogue of Eclipsing Binaries (VMC)

Title VISTA Magellanic Survey Catalogue of Eclipsing Binaries (VMC)
Version 1
Data Provider/P.I. Maria-Rosa L. Cioni
Data Collection VMC
Data Release DR3
Submission Date 2014-09-03
Publication Date 2015-01-02
Obsolete Date
Description This catalogue refers to eclipsing binary stars in five VMC tiles completed by October 2012 (Muraveva et al. 2014). VMC Ks magnitudes are listed together with periods from optical catalogues (OGLE-III, EROS-2). The total sky coverage is 7.5 deg^2 in the LMC.
Please refer to the full data release description for further information.
Telescope ESO-VISTA
Instrument VIRCAM
Technique of Observation IMAGE,JITTER
Start of Observations 55,140.241 (2009-11-05T18:48:00)
End of Observations 56,207.167 (2012-10-07T18:01:26)
Filter Set/bands Ks
Sky Solid Angle 7.5
Number of Records 556
Number of Columns 17
Reference 2014arXiv1406.2494M
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 VARID UID of VMC variables INT64 1 meta.id;meta.main
4 FIELDID ID of field STRING 8 meta.id
5 CUEVENTID UID of curation event giving rise to this record INT32 1 meta.bib
6 CATALOGUE Name of the external catalogue containing the counterparts STRING 16 meta.id
7 EXTERNALID Identification from the EROS-2 or OGLE III catalogues. STRING 32 meta.id
8 RA2000 Celestial Right Ascension DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
9 DEC2000 Celestial Declination DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
10 NEPOCHS Number of epochs in the Ks-band INT32 1 meta.number
11 KSMAX Ks magnitude at maximum light, determined by fitting with GRATIS FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.max;em.IR.K mag
12 KSMAXERR Error on Ks magnitude at maximum light FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
13 PERIOD Period from the external catalogue. FLOAT 1 time.period day
14 EPOCHMIN Epoch of minimum light (JD-2,400,000). FLOAT 1 time.epoch day
15 NOTES EROS: "cont.-like","non-contact"; OGLE: "checked" (by GRATIS), "n/c" STRING 16 meta.code.qual
16 ORIGVSAREL VSA release from which Ks data was used STRING 16 meta.id
17 ORIGVSASOURCEID VSA sourceID in VSA release from which Ks data was used INT64 1 meta.id