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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey: RR Lyrae stars

Title VISTA Magellanic Survey: RR Lyrae stars
Version 1
Data Provider/P.I. Maria-Rosa L. Cioni
Data Collection VMC
Data Release DR4
Submission Date 2017-03-23
Publication Date 2017-03-28
Description The RR Lyrae stars included in this release are initially extracted from the OGLE IV survey.
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 (2009-11-05T18:47:15)
End of Observations 56,522.243 (2013-08-18T19:50:08)
Filter Set/bands Ks
Sky Solid Angle 7.5
Number of Records 785
Number of Columns 21
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 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 RA2000 Celestial Right Ascension DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
7 DEC2000 Celestial Declination DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
8 NKSEPOCHS Number of epochs in the Ks-band INT32 1 meta.number
9 KSMEAN Mean K_s band magnitude derived with GRATIS FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.IR.K mag
10 KSMEANERR Uncertainty in mean Ksmag provided by GRATIS FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
11 KSAMPL Amplitude in K_s band provided by GRATIS FLOAT 1 src.var.amplitude;em.IR.K mag
12 RRLYRMODE Mode, F0-fundamental mode STRING 16 meta.code.class
13 IMEANMAG Mean I band magnitude from OGLE-3 survey FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.opt.I mag
14 VMEANMAG Mean V band magnitude from OGLE-3 survey FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.opt.V mag
15 PERIOD Period from the external catalogue. FLOAT 1 time.period day
16 EPOCHMAX Epoch of minimum light (JD-2,400,000). FLOAT 1 time.epoch day
17 EVI The dust extinction value E(V-I) FLOAT 1 phys.absorption.gal mag
18 ORIGVSAREL VSA release from which Ks data was used STRING 16 meta.id
19 ORIGVSASOURCEID VSA sourceID in VSA release from which Ks data was used INT64 1 meta.id
20 CATALOGUE Name of the external catalogue containing the counterparts STRING 16 meta.id
21 EXTERNALID Identification from the EROS-2 or OGLE III catalogues. STRING 32 meta.id