Table information for 'gedr3auto.main'

General

This table is available for ADQL queries and through the TAP endpoint.

Resource Description: This is a table that simply gives, for each object in Gaia eDR3, the identifier of its closest neighbour together with the distance of the pair.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'Gaia eDR3 Autocorrelation'

Citing this table

To cite the table as such, we suggest the following BibTeX entry:

@MISC{vo:gedr3auto_main,
  year=2021,
  title={Gaia eDR3 Autocorrelation},
  author={Demleitner, M.},
  url={http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/gedr3auto.main},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center},
  doi = {10.21938/AxETfJ6uamQiRH9vMLdVTA}
}

Resource Documentation

Determining the wider pairs needs a bit of trickery to avoid excessive run times. If you are curious what we did, see the script embedded in this table's resource descriptor.

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
source_id Source Id Gaia DR3 unique source identifier. Note that this *cannot* be matched against the DR1 or DR2 source_ids. [Note id] N/A meta.id;meta.main
partner_id Closest Identifier of the closest eDR3 object N/A meta.id.assoc
dist Dist The estimated distance between the two objects. No attempt is made to furnish this with an error estimate. deg pos.angDistance

Columns that are parts of indices are marked like this.

VOResource

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