Table information for 'alerce_tap.taxonomy'

General

Table Description:

Taxonomy of astronomical object classes used by classifiers, including class names, display ordering, and the associated classifier producing these classifications.

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_taxon,
  year=2026,
  title={Classification Taxonomy},
  author={{ALeRCE} Team},
  url={http://tap.alerce.online/tableinfo/alerce_tap.taxonomy},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {ALeRCE} {TAP} service}
}

Columns

Sorted alphabetically. [Sort by DB column index]

NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
class_id Class_id Class identifier N/A meta.id
class_name Class_name Class name N/A src.class
classifier_id Classifier_id Classifier identifier N/A meta.id
created_date Created_date Date record was created N/A time.creation
taxonomy_order Taxonomy_order Display order N/A meta.code.class

Columns that are parts of indices are marked like this.

VOResource

VO nerds may sometimes need VOResource XML for this table.