Table information for 'alerce_tap.band'

General

Table Description:

Lookup table defining photometric bands (filters) for each survey, including band names and display ordering.

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

Resource Description:

Multi-survey astronomical object catalog containing astrometric and statistical information from multiple surveys. This table provides aggregated properties for astronomical objects including position, detection statistics, and temporal coverage.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'ALeRCE Multi-Survey Object Catalog'

Citing this table

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

@MISC{vo:alerce_tap_band,
  year=2026,
  title={Photometric Bands},
  author={{ALeRCE} Team},
  url={http://tap.alerce.online/tableinfo/alerce_tap.band},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {ALeRCE} {TAP} service}
}

Columns

Sorted alphabetically. [Sort by DB column index]

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
band Band Band identifier N/A instr.bandpass
band_name Band_name Band name N/A instr.bandpass
band_order Band_order Display order N/A meta.code.class
created_date Created_date Date record was created N/A time.creation
sid Sid Survey identifier N/A meta.id
tid Tid Telescope identifier N/A meta.id

Columns that are parts of indices are marked like this.

VOResource

VO nerds may sometimes need VOResource XML for this table.