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Details - Deep/Ultra-Deep Near-IR Survey of the COSMOS Field (Ultra-VISTA)

Title Deep/Ultra-Deep Near-IR Survey of the COSMOS Field (Ultra-VISTA)
Version 5
Data Provider/P.I. J.S. Dunlop
Data Collection UltraVISTA
Data Release DR6
Submission Date 2024-05-27
Publication Date 2024-06-27
Description UltraVISTA is an ultra-deep near-infrared survey of the central region of the COSMOS field. The DR6 release is built from UltraVISTA program data obtained between December 2009 and March 2023.
Please refer to the full data release description for further information.
Telescope ESO-VISTA
Instrument VIRCAM
Technique of Observation IMAGE,JITTER
Start of Observations 55,170.297 (2009-12-05T20:08:00)
End of Observations 60,008.315 (2023-03-05T20:33:55)
Filter Set/bands Y J H Ks NB118
Sky Solid Angle 1.893
Number of Records 491801
Number of Columns 48
Reference 2012A&A...544A.156M
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/52
Position Name Description Data Type Data Size UCD Physical Unit
1 SOURCE_ID UltraVISTA source designation (DR6) STRING 29 meta.id;meta.main
2 NUMBER Running object number INT32 1 meta.id
3 ALPHA_J2000 Right ascension of barycenter in decimal degrees (J2000) DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.ra;meta.main deg
4 DELTA_J2000 Declination of barycenter in decimal degrees (J2000) DOUBLE 1 pos.eq.dec;meta.main deg
5 X_IMAGE Object position along x FLOAT 1 pos.cartesian.x pixel
6 Y_IMAGE Object position along y FLOAT 1 pos.cartesian.y pixel
7 FLAG_HJMCC Bad region flag: != 0 for bad region (field boundaries: 1) INT32 1 meta.code
8 EBV Galactic reddening E(B-V) based on Schlegel et al (1998) dust maps DOUBLE 1 phys.absorption.gal mag
9 Y_APER2 Y fixed aperture magnitude (2",AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
10 Y_APER2_ERR Y fixed aperture mag error (2",AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
11 Y_APER7 Y fixed aperture magnitude (7.1",AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
12 Y_APER7_ERR Y fixed aperture mag error (7.1",AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
13 Y_AUTO Y auto magnitude (AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
14 Y_AUTO_ERR Y auto mag error (AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
15 Y_FLUX_RADIUS Radius of aperture containing half the flux of Y_MAG_AUTO FLOAT 1 phys.angSize;em.IR.J pixel
16 Y_FLAG Y Flag (sextractor) INT16 1 meta.code;phot.mag;em.IR.J
17 J_APER2 J fixed aperture magnitude (2",AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
18 J_APER2_ERR J fixed aperture mag error (2",AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
19 J_APER7 J fixed aperture magnitude (7.1",AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
20 J_APER7_ERR J fixed aperture mag error (7.1",AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
21 J_AUTO J auto magnitude (AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
22 J_AUTO_ERR J auto mag error (AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
23 J_FLUX_RADIUS Radius of aperture containing half the flux of J_MAG_AUTO FLOAT 1 phys.angSize;em.IR.J pixel
24 J_FLAG J Flag (sextractor) INT16 1 meta.code;phot.mag;em.IR.J
25 H_APER2 H fixed aperture magnitude (2",AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.H mag
26 H_APER2_ERR H fixed aperture mag error (2",AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.H mag
27 H_APER7 H fixed aperture magnitude (7.1",AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.H mag
28 H_APER7_ERR H fixed aperture mag error (7.1",AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.H mag
29 H_AUTO H auto magnitude (AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.H mag
30 H_AUTO_ERR H auto mag error (AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.H mag
31 H_FLUX_RADIUS Radius of aperture containing half the flux of H_MAG_AUTO FLOAT 1 phys.angSize;em.IR.H pixel
32 H_FLAG H Flag (sextractor) INT16 1 meta.code;phot.mag;em.IR.H
33 KS_APER2 Ks fixed aperture magnitude (2",AB) [detection image] FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
34 KS_APER2_ERR Ks fixed aperture mag error (2",AB) [detection image] FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
35 KS_APER7 Ks fixed aperture magnitude (7.1",AB) [detection image] FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
36 KS_APER7_ERR Ks fixed aperture mag error (7.1",AB) [detection image] FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
37 KS_AUTO Ks auto magnitude (AB) [detection image] FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
38 KS_AUTO_ERR Ks auto mag error (AB) [detection image] FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.K mag
39 KS_FLUX_RADIUS Radius of aperture containing half the flux of KS_MAG_AUTO FLOAT 1 phys.angSize;em.IR.K pixel
40 KS_FLAG Ks Flag (sextractor) [detection image] INT16 1 meta.code;phot.mag;em.IR.K
41 NB118_APER2 NB118 fixed aperture magnitude (2",AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
42 NB118_APER2_ERR NB118 fixed aperture mag error (2",AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
43 NB118_APER7 NB118 fixed aperture magnitude (7.1",AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
44 NB118_APER7_ERR NB118 fixed aperture mag error (7.1",AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
45 NB118_AUTO NB118 auto magnitude (AB) FLOAT 1 phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
46 NB118_AUTO_ERR NB118 auto mag error (AB) FLOAT 1 stat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.J mag
47 NB118_FLUX_RADIUS Radius of aperture containing half the flux of NB118_MAG_AUTO FLOAT 1 phys.angSize;em.IR.J pixel
48 NB118_FLAG NB118 Flag (sextractor) INT16 1 meta.code;phot.mag;em.IR.J