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Details - VISTA Magellanic Survey: Cepheids

Title VISTA Magellanic Survey: Cepheids
Version 3
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 classical Cepheid stars included in this release are initially extracted from the OGLE-III (tile LMC 6_6, SMC 4_3, 5_2 and 5_4) and EROS-2 (tile LMC 8_8 and SMC 5_4) surveys. Tile LMC 8_8 is only 70% covered (see above). Anomalous and Type II Cepheids, extracted also from the OGLE III survey, are present for tiles LMC 5_5, 6_4, 6_6, 7_3, and 8_8.
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 (2009-11-04T20:02:06)
End of Observations 56,522.243 (2013-08-18T19:50:06)
Filter Set/bands Y J Ks
Sky Solid Angle 15
Number of Records 3051
Number of Columns 31
Reference 2012MNRAS.424.1807R
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 CEPHTYPE Type of Cepheid, e.g. DCEP STRING 16 meta.code.class
9 CEPHSUBTYPE Sub-type of Cepheid, STRING 16 meta.code.class
10 CEPHMODE Mode of Cepheid e.g. F0 STRING 16 meta.code.class
11 PERIOD Period of first mode of oscillation FLOAT 1 time.period day
12 YNEPOCHS Number of Ymag epochs INT32 1 meta.number;em.IR.NIR
13 YMEANMAG Intensity-averaged Y band magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.IR.NIR mag
14 YMAGERR Error in intensity-averaged Y band magnitude FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.NIR mag
15 YAMPL Peak-to-Peak amplitude in Y band FLOAT 1 src.var.amplitude;em.IR.NIR mag
16 YAMPLERR Error in Peak-to-Peak amplitude in Y band FLOAT 1 stat.error;src.var.amplitude;em.IR.NIR mag
17 JNEPOCHS Number of J mag epochs INT32 1 meta.number;em.IR.J
18 JMEANMAG Intensity-averaged J band magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.IR.J mag
19 JMAGERR Error in intensity-averaged J band magnitude FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
20 JAMPL Peak-to-Peak amplitude in J band FLOAT 1 src.var.amplitude;em.IR.J mag
21 JAMPLERR Error in Peak-to-Peak amplitude in J band FLOAT 1 stat.error;src.var.amplitude;em.IR.J mag
22 KSNEPOCHS Number of Ks mag epochs INT32 1 meta.number;em.IR.K
23 KSMEANMAG Intensity-averaged Ks band magnitude FLOAT 1 phot.mag;stat.mean;em.IR.K mag
24 KSMAGERR Error in intensity-averaged Ks band magnitude FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
25 KSAMPL Peak-to-Peak amplitude in Ks band FLOAT 1 src.var.amplitude;em.IR.K mag
26 KSAMPLERR Error in Peak-to-Peak amplitude in Ks band FLOAT 1 stat.error;src.var.amplitude;em.IR.K mag
27 NOTES Additional information of flag assigned using the PW(V,Ks) as STRING 16 meta.code.qual
28 ORIGVSAREL VSA release from which Ks data was used STRING 16 meta.id
29 ORIGVSASOURCEID VSA sourceID in VSA release from which Ks data was used INT64 1 meta.id
30 CATALOGUE Name of the external catalogue containing the counterparts STRING 16 meta.id
31 EXTERNALID Identification from the EROS-2 or OGLE III catalogues. STRING 32 meta.id