Table information for 'alerce_tap.catalog_id_lut'

General

Table Description:

Lookup table mapping catalog identifiers to the names of external astronomical catalogs used for cross-matching.

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_catal,
  year=2026,
  title={Catalog Identifier Lookup},
  author={{ALeRCE} Team},
  url={http://tap.alerce.online/tableinfo/alerce_tap.catalog_id_lut},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {ALeRCE} {TAP} service}
}

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
catalog_name Catalog_name Catalog name N/A meta.id
catid Catid Catalog identifier N/A meta.id
created_date Created_date Date record was created N/A time.creation

Columns that are parts of indices are marked like this.

VOResource

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