Table information for 'polcatsmc.data'

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Resource Description: An optical polarimetric catalog for the Small Magelanic Cloud (SMC) is presented. It gives intrinsic and observed polarizations in the V-band for a total of 7207 stars located in the Northeast and Wing sections of the SMC and part of the Magellanic Bridge.

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This table has an associated publication. If you use data from it, it may be appropriate to reference 2015ApJ...806...94L (ADS BibTeX entry for the publication) either in addition to or instead of the service reference.

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

@MISC{vo:polcatsmc_data,
  year=2014,
  title={Optical Polarimetric Catalog for the {SMC}},
  author={Lobo Gomes, A. and Magalhães, A. M. and Pereyra, A. and Rodrigues, C. V.},
  url={http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/polcatsmc.data},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center}
}

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
ct Id Object running number N/A meta.id;meta.main
dej2000 Dec Object Declination ICRS deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main
e_pol_int Err. Pol_int Error on the intrinsic polarisation, including errors on observed polarisation and the estimate of the polarization due to forground dust. N/A N/A
e_pol_obs Err. Pol_obs Error in observed polarization including pixel noise. The error is given in percent of the total flux. N/A N/A
e_vmag Err. m_V Error in V band magnitude, including photon noise and dispersion in the magnitude calibration. mag stat.error;phot.mag;em.opt.V
pa_pol_int PA Pol_int Position angle of the intrinsic polarisation deg N/A
pa_pol_obs PA Pol_obs Position angle of the observed polarization deg N/A
pol_int Pol_int Intrinsic polarisation in per cent of total flux, obtained by substracting the foreground polarization due to Milky Way dust from the observed polarization pol_obs. See paper, chapter 3, for details on foreground determination. N/A N/A
pol_obs Pol_obs Observed polarization in percent of total flux, obtained by determining the Q and U stokes parameters from V photometry in four different angles. N/A N/A
raj2000 RA Object Right Ascension ICRS deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main
vmag m_V V band magnitude obtained by summing up the flux of the image pair in one frame and calibrating against several published catalogs (see Table 3 in the paper). mag phot.mag;em.opt.V

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