Table information for 'alerce_tap.detection'

General

Table Description:

Generic detection table containing basic information for all detections across multiple surveys, including position, observation time, and photometric band. For detailed survey-specific detection properties, see the corresponding survey-specific detection tables.

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_detec,
  year=2026,
  title={Multi-Survey Detections},
  author={{ALeRCE} Team},
  url={http://tap.alerce.online/tableinfo/alerce_tap.detection},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {ALeRCE} {TAP} service}
}

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
band Band Photometric band N/A instr.bandpass
created_date Created_date Date record was created N/A time.creation
dec Dec Declination deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main
measurement_id Measurement_id Measurement identifier N/A meta.id
mjd Mjd Modified Julian Date d time.epoch
oid Oid Object identifier N/A meta.id;src
ra Ra Right ascension deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main
sid Sid Survey identifier N/A meta.id

Columns that are parts of indices are marked like this.

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