Table information for 'bgds2.phot_u'

General

Table Description: BGDS median photometry in the Johnson U band. This is available for all objects found in the fields observed.

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

Resource Description:

From the Bochum Galactic Disk Survey, time series have been obtained in the r and i bands on an (up to) nightly basis. Depending on the field, the time series contain up to more than 300 nights over 9 years. Each measurement in r and i represents the averaged flux over 10 minutes of observation (from 9 averaged 10s images). Additionally, intermittent measurements in Johnson UVB, Sloan z and the narrowbands OIII, NB, Halpha and SII have been recorded as well.

The Bochum Galactic Disk Survey is a project to monitor the stellar content of the Galactic disk in a 6 degree wide stripe centered on the Galactic plane. The data has been recorded from September 2010 to September 2019 in Sloan r and i simultaneously with the Robotic Bochum Twin Telescope (RoBoTT) at the Universitaetssternwarte Bochum near Cerro Armazones in the Chilean Atacama desert. It contains measurements of about 2x10^7 stars over nine years.

The source images are available from ivo://org.gavo.dc/bgds/q/sia.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'BGDS DR2 time series'

Citing this table

This table has an associated publication. If you use data from it, it may be appropriate to reference 2015AN....336..590H (ADS BibTeX entry for the publication) either in addition to or instead of the service reference.

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

@MISC{vo:bgds2_phot_u,
  year=2024,
  title={{BGDS} DR2 time series},
  author={Hackstein, M. and Haas, M. and Fein, C. and Chini, R.},
  url={https://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/bgds2.phot_u},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center}
}

If you use GDS data, please cite 2015AN....336..590H.

Resource Documentation

The time series from BGDS DR2 by default come as IVOA Spectral Data Model compliant VOTables. If you what plain text instead, add &format=txt to the dlget URIs. The columns you get back then are epoch in MJD, magnitude and magnitude error in mag, and a link to a cutout showing where the measurement came from.

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
obs_id Obs_id Main identifier of this observation (a single object may have multiple observations in different bands and fields) N/A meta.id;meta.main
ra Ra ICRS right ascension for this object. N/A pos.eq.ra;meta.main
dec Dec ICRS declination for this object. N/A pos.eq.dec;meta.main
med_mag_u 〈mag〉 Mean magnitude in Johnson U. mag phot.mag;em.opt.U;stat.median
err_mag_u Err〈mag〉 Error in median magnitude in Johnson U mag stat.error;phot.mag;em.opt.U
amp Amplitude Difference between brightest and weakest observation. mag phot.mag;em.opt.U;arith.diff
flux 〈flux〉 Median flux in the Johnson U band; this is computed from the median magnitude based on Landolt standard stars. mJy phot.flux;em.opt.U;stat.median
err_flux Err〈flux〉 Error in median flux in the Johnson U band mJy stat.error;phot.flux;em.opt.U
nobs #Obs Number of observations in this light curve N/A meta.number;obs
field Field Survey field observed. N/A meta.id;obs.field

Columns that are parts of indices are marked like this.

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