Table information for 'ztf.gaia_ztf'

General

Table Description:

Gaia catalog cross-match properties for ZTF objects including distances and magnitudes of the nearest Gaia source and the nearest bright Gaia source.

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

Resource Description:

Legacy ZTF astronomical catalog containing objects, detections, photometric measurements, classifications, and cross-matches from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey, as processed by the ALeRCE broker pipeline.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'ALeRCE ZTF Legacy Catalog'

Citing this table

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

@MISC{vo:ztf_gaia_ztf,
  year=2026,
  title={{ZTF} Gaia Cross-Matches},
  author={{ALeRCE} Team},
  url={http://tap.alerce.online/tableinfo/ztf.gaia_ztf},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {ALeRCE} {TAP} service}
}

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
oid Oid ZTF object identifier N/A meta.id;src
candid Candid Candidate identifier used for this cross-match N/A meta.id
neargaia Neargaia Distance to nearest Gaia source arcsec pos.angDistance
neargaiabright Neargaiabright Distance to nearest Gaia source brighter than G=14 mag arcsec pos.angDistance
maggaia Maggaia G-band magnitude of nearest Gaia source mag phot.mag;em.opt
maggaiabright Maggaiabright G-band magnitude of nearest bright Gaia source mag phot.mag;em.opt
unique1 Unique1 Whether this is the unique Gaia match for this object N/A meta.code.qual

Columns that are parts of indices are marked like this.

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