European
Southern
Observatory

ESO — Reaching New Heights in Astronomy

Austria Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Netherlands Poland Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland UK Chile

Details - VVV: ZYJHKs Catalogue in the Via Lactea

Title VVV: ZYJHKs Catalogue in the Via Lactea
Version 2
Data Provider/P.I. Dante Minniti
Data Collection VVV
Data Release DR2
Submission Date 2015-07-07
Publication Date 2015-08-19
Obsolete Date
Description Multi-band source catalogue of the near-infrared VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea Survey (VVV) in the five broadband filters ZYJHKs. The survey covers 525 square degrees in the Galactic disk and bulge region. The catalogue lists about 419 million sources.
Please refer to the full data release description for further information.
Telescope ESO-VISTA
Instrument VIRCAM
Technique of Observation IMAGE,JITTER
Start of Observations 55,128.002 (2009-10-24T14:03:25)
End of Observations 55,987.124 (2012-03-01T15:59:06)
Filter Set/bands Z Y J H Ks
Sky Solid Angle 525
Number of Records 418944314
Number of Columns 89
Reference 2012A&A...548A.119C
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/67
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;meta.main
3 FRAMESETID UID of the set of frames that this merged source comes from INT64 1 meta.bib
4 RA2000 Celestial Right Ascension DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main Degrees
5 DEC2000 Celestial Declination DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main Degrees
6 L Galactic longitude DOUBLE 1 pos.galactic.lon Degrees
7 B Galactic latitude DOUBLE 1 pos.galactic.lat Degrees
8 LAMBDA SDSS system spherical co-ordinate 1 DOUBLE 1 pos Degrees
9 ETA SDSS system spherical co-ordinate 2 DOUBLE 1 pos Degrees
10 PRIORSEC Seam code for a unique (=0) or duplicated (!=0) source INT64 1 meta.code
11 MERGEDCLASSSTAT Merged N(0,1) stellarness-of-profile statistic FLOAT 1 stat
12 MERGEDCLASS Class flag,1|0|-1|-2|-3|-9=gal|noise|star|probStar|probGal|saturated INT16 1 meta.code
13 ZMYPNT Point source colour Z-Y (using aperMag3) FLOAT 1 phot.color;em.opt.I;em.IR.NIR mag
14 ZMYPNTERR Error on point source colour Z-Y FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.opt.I;em.IR.NIR mag
15 JMHPNT Point source colour J-H (using aperMag3) FLOAT 1 phot.color;em.IR.J;em.IR.H mag
16 JMHPNTERR Error on point source colour J-H FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.J;em.IR.H mag
17 HMKSPNT Point source colour H-Ks (using aperMag3) FLOAT 1 phot.color;em.IR.H;em.IR.K mag
18 HMKSPNTERR Error on point source colour H-Ks FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.H;em.IR.K mag
19 ZAPERMAG1 Extended source Z aperture corrected mag 1.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.opt.I mag
20 ZAPERMAG1ERR Error in extended source Z mag (1.0 arcsec aperture diameter) FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.opt.I;phot.mag mag
21 ZAPERMAG3 Default source Z aperture corrected mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.opt.I mag
22 ZAPERMAG3ERR Error in default source Z mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.opt.I;phot.mag mag
23 ZAPERMAG4 Extended source Z aperture corrected mag 2.8 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.opt.I mag
24 ZAPERMAG4ERR Error in extended source Z mag (2.8 arcsec aperture diameter) FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.opt.I;phot.mag mag
25 ZGAUSIG RMS of axes of ellipse fit in Z FLOAT 1 src.morph.param;em.opt.I pixels
26 ZPA ellipse fit celestial orientation in Z FLOAT 1 pos.posAng;em.opt.I Degrees
27 ZELL 1-b/a, where a/b=semi-major/minor axes in Z FLOAT 1 src.ellipticity;em.opt.I
28 ZPPERRBITS additional WFAU post-processing error bits in Z INT32 1 meta.code;em.opt.I
29 ZAVERAGECONF average confidence in 2 arcsec diameter default aperture 3 Z FLOAT 1 stat.likelihood;em.opt.I
30 ZSEQNUM the running number of the Z detection INT32 1 meta.number;em.opt.I
31 ZXI Offset of Z detection from master position (+east/-west) FLOAT 1 pos.eq.ra;arith.diff;em.opt.I arcsec
32 ZETA Offset of Z detection from master position (+north/-south) FLOAT 1 pos.eq.dec;arith.diff;em.opt.I arcsec
33 YAPERMAG1 Extended source Y aperture corrected mag 1.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.NIR mag
34 YAPERMAG1ERR Error in extended source Y mag (1.0 arcsec aperture diameter) FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.NIR;phot.mag mag
35 YAPERMAG3 Default source Y aperture corrected mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.NIR mag
36 YAPERMAG3ERR Error in default source Y mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.NIR;phot.mag mag
37 YAPERMAG4 Extended source Y aperture corrected mag 2.8 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.NIR mag
38 YAPERMAG4ERR Error in extended source Y mag (2.8 arcsec aperture diameter) FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.NIR;phot.mag mag
39 YGAUSIG RMS of axes of ellipse fit in Y FLOAT 1 src.morph.param;em.IR.NIR pixels
40 YPA ellipse fit celestial orientation in Y FLOAT 1 pos.posAng;em.IR.NIR Degrees
41 YELL 1-b/a, where a/b=semi-major/minor axes in Y FLOAT 1 src.ellipticity;em.IR.NIR
42 YPPERRBITS additional WFAU post-processing error bits in Y INT32 1 meta.code;em.IR.NIR
43 YAVERAGECONF average confidence in 2 arcsec diameter default aperture 3 Y FLOAT 1 stat.likelihood;em.IR.NIR
44 YSEQNUM the running number of the Y detection INT32 1 meta.number;em.IR.NIR
45 YXI Offset of Y detection from master position (+east/-west) FLOAT 1 pos.eq.ra;arith.diff;em.IR.NIR arcsec
46 YETA Offset of Y detection from master position (+north/-south) FLOAT 1 pos.eq.dec;arith.diff;em.IR.NIR arcsec
47 JAPERMAG1 Extended source J aperture corrected mag 1.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
48 JAPERMAG1ERR Error in extended source J mag (1.0 arcsec aperture diameter) FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.J;phot.mag mag
49 JAPERMAG3 Default source J aperture corrected mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
50 JAPERMAG3ERR Error in default source J mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.J;phot.mag mag
51 JAPERMAG4 Extended source J aperture corrected mag 2.8 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
52 JAPERMAG4ERR Error in extended source J mag (2.8 arcsec aperture diameter) FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.J;phot.mag mag
53 JGAUSIG RMS of axes of ellipse fit in J FLOAT 1 src.morph.param;em.IR.J pixels
54 JPA ellipse fit celestial orientation in J FLOAT 1 pos.posAng;em.IR.J Degrees
55 JELL 1-b/a, where a/b=semi-major/minor axes in J FLOAT 1 src.ellipticity;em.IR.J
56 JPPERRBITS additional WFAU post-processing error bits in J INT32 1 meta.code;em.IR.J
57 JAVERAGECONF average confidence in 2 arcsec diameter default aperture 3 J FLOAT 1 stat.likelihood;em.IR.J
58 JSEQNUM the running number of the J detection INT32 1 meta.number;em.IR.J
59 JXI Offset of J detection from master position (+east/-west) FLOAT 1 pos.eq.ra;arith.diff;em.IR.J arcsec
60 JETA Offset of J detection from master position (+north/-south) FLOAT 1 pos.eq.dec;arith.diff;em.IR.J arcsec
61 HAPERMAG1 Extended source H aperture corrected mag 1.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.H mag
62 HAPERMAG1ERR Error in extended source H mag (1.0 arcsec aperture diameter) FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.H;phot.mag mag
63 HAPERMAG3 Default source H aperture corrected mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.H mag
64 HAPERMAG3ERR Error in default source H mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.H;phot.mag mag
65 HAPERMAG4 Extended source H aperture corrected mag 2.8 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.H mag
66 HAPERMAG4ERR Error in extended source H mag (2.8 arcsec aperture diameter) FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.H;phot.mag mag
67 HGAUSIG RMS of axes of ellipse fit in H FLOAT 1 src.morph.param;em.IR.H pixels
68 HPA ellipse fit celestial orientation in H FLOAT 1 pos.posAng;em.IR.H Degrees
69 HELL 1-b/a, where a/b=semi-major/minor axes in H FLOAT 1 src.ellipticity;em.IR.H
70 HPPERRBITS additional WFAU post-processing error bits in H INT32 1 meta.code;em.IR.H
71 HAVERAGECONF average confidence in 2 arcsec diameter default aperture 3 H FLOAT 1 stat.likelihood;em.IR.H
72 HSEQNUM the running number of the H detection INT32 1 meta.number;em.IR.H
73 HXI Offset of H detection from master position (+east/-west) FLOAT 1 pos.eq.ra;arith.diff;em.IR.H arcsec
74 HETA Offset of H detection from master position (+north/-south) FLOAT 1 pos.eq.dec;arith.diff;em.IR.H arcsec
75 KSAPERMAG1 Extended source Ks aperture corrected mag 1.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
76 KSAPERMAG1ERR Error in extended source Ks mag (1.0 arcsec aperture diameter) FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.K;phot.mag mag
77 KSAPERMAG3 Default source Ks aperture corrected mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
78 KSAPERMAG3ERR Error in default source Ks mag 2.0 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.K;phot.mag mag
79 KSAPERMAG4 Extended source Ks aperture corrected mag 2.8 arcsec diam FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
80 KSAPERMAG4ERR Error in extended source Ks mag (2.8 arcsec aperture diameter) FLOAT 1 stat.error;em.IR.K;phot.mag mag
81 KSGAUSIG RMS of axes of ellipse fit in Ks FLOAT 1 src.morph.param;em.IR.K pixels
82 KSPA ellipse fit celestial orientation in Ks FLOAT 1 pos.posAng;em.IR.K Degrees
83 KSELL 1-b/a, where a/b=semi-major/minor axes in Ks FLOAT 1 src.ellipticity;em.IR.K
84 KSPPERRBITS additional WFAU post-processing error bits in Ks INT32 1 meta.code;em.IR.K
85 KSAVERAGECONF average confidence in 2 arcsec diameter default aperture 3 Ks FLOAT 1 stat.likelihood;em.IR.K
86 KSSEQNUM the running number of the Ks detection INT32 1 meta.number;em.IR.K
87 KSXI Offset of Ks detection from master position (+east/-west) FLOAT 1 pos.eq.ra;arith.diff;em.IR.K arcsec
88 KSETA Offset of Ks detection from master position (+north/-south) FLOAT 1 pos.eq.dec;arith.diff;em.IR.K arcsec
89 VARFLAG Classification of variability in this band INT16 1 meta.code.class;src.var;em.IR.K