Table information for 'mwsc.stars'

General

Table Description: Data on cluster stars.

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

Resource Description: MWSC presents a list of 3006 Milky Way Stellar Clusters (MWSC), found in the 2MAst (2MASS with Astrometry) catalogue. The target list was compiled on the basis of present-day lists of open, globular and candidate clusters. For confirmed clusters we determined a homogeneous set of astrophysical parameters such as membership, angular radii of the main morphological parts, mean cluster proper motions, distances, reddenings, ages, tidal parameters, and sometimes radial velocities.

For a list of all services and tables belonging to this table's resource, see Information on resource 'Global Survey of Star Clusters in the Milky Way'

Citing this table

@MISC{vo:mwsc_stars,
  year=2013,
  title={Global Survey of Star Clusters in the Milky Way},
  author={Kharchenko, N.V. and Piskunov, A.E. and Roeser, S. and Schilbach, E. and Scholz, R.-D.},
  url={http://dc.zah.uni-heidelberg.de/tableinfo/mwsc.stars},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the {GAVO} Data Center}
}

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Notes

• Note q

  qflag is the photometric quality flag (upstream ph_qual). Three character flag, one character per band [JHKs], that provides a summary of the net quality of the default photometry in each band, as derived from the Read Flag (rflg), measurement uncertainties ([jhk]_cmsig), scan signal-to-noise ratios ([jhk]_snr), frame-detection statistics (ndet), and profile-fit reduced chi-squared values ([jhk]_psfchi). The value for qflag is set for a band according to the precedence of the table below. For example, a source that is tested and meets the conditions for category "X" is not tested for subsequent qualities.

  "X"

  There is a detection at this location, but no valid brightness estimate can be extracted using any algorithm. rflg="9" and default magnitude is null.

  "U"

  Upper limit on magnitude. Source is not detected in this band (rflg="0"), or it is detected, but not resolved in a consistent fashion with other bands (rflg="6"). A value of qflag="U" does not necessarily mean that there is no flux detected in this band at the location. Whether or not flux has been detected can be determined from the value of rflg. When rflag="0", no flux has been detected. When rflg="6", flux has been detected at the location where the images were not deblended consistently in all three bands (JHKs).

  "F"

  This category includes rflg="1" or rflag="3" sources where a reliable estimate of the photometric error, [jhk]_cmsig, could not be determined. The uncertainties reported for these sources in [jhk]_cmsig and [jhk]_msigcom are flags and have numeric values >8.0.

  "E"

  This category includes detections where the goodness-of-fit quality of the profile-fit photometry was very poor (rflg=2 and [jhk]psf_chi>10.0), or detections where psf fit photometry did not converge and an aperture magnitude is reported (rflg=4), or detections where the number of frames was too small in relation to the number of frames in which a detection was geometrically possible (rflg="1" or rflag="2").

  "A"

  Detections in any brightness regime where valid measurements were made (rflg="1","2" or "3") with [jhk]_snr>10 AND [jhk]_cmsig<0.10857.

  "B"

  Detections in any brightness regime where valid measurements were made (rflg="1","2" or "3") with [jhk]_snr>7 AND [jhk]_cmsig<0.15510.

  "C"

  Detections in any brightness regime where valid measurements were made (rflg="1","2" or "3") with [jhk]_snr>5 AND [jhk]_cmsig<0.21714.

  "D"

  Detections in any brightness regime where valid measurements were made (rflg="1","2" or "3") with no [jhk]_snr or [jhk]_cmsig requirement.

• Note r

  rflg is upstream's Read flag (rd_flg). It is a three character flag, one character per band [JHKs], that indicates the origin of the default magnitudes and uncertainties in each band (j_m,h_m,k_m, j_cmsig, h_cmsig, k_cmsig). rflg values of "1", "2" or "3" generally indicate the best quality detections, photometry and astrometry (although other quality flags must be considered). Values of "0", "4", "6" and "9" in a band indicate either non-detections, or generally poor quality photometry and positions. The definitions of the rflg values are:

  "0"

  Source is not detected in this band. The default magnitude is the 95% confidence upper limit derived from a 4" radius aperture measurement taken at the position of the source on the Atlas Image. The sky background is estimated in an annular region with inner radius of 14" and outer radius of 20".

  "1"

  The default magnitude is derived from aperture photometry measurements on the 51 ms "Read_1" exposures. The aperture radius is 4", with the sky background measured in an annulus with an inner radius of 14" and an outer radius of 20". Used for sources that saturate one or more of the 1.3s "Read_2" exposures, but are not saturated on at least one of the 51 ms "Read_1" frames.

  "2"

  The default magnitude is derived from a profile-fitting measurement made on the 1.3 sec "Read_2" exposures. The profile-fit magnitudes are normalized to curve-of-growth-corrected aperture magnitudes. This is the most common type in the PSC, and is used for sources that have no saturated pixels in any of the 1.3 sec exposures.

  "3"

  The default magnitude is derived from a 1-d radial profile fitting measurement made on the 51 ms "Read_1" exposures. Used for very bright sources that saturate all of the 51 ms "Read 1" exposures.

  "4"

  The default magnitude is derived from curve-of-growth-corrected 4" radius aperture photometry measurements on the 1.3 s "Read_2" exposures. This is used for sources that are not saturated in any of the Read_2 frames, but where the profile-fitting measurements fail to converge to a solution. These magnitudes are the same as the standard aperture magnitudes (j_m_stdap, h_m_stdap, k_m_stdap), but when they are the default magnitudes, it generally implies that they are low quality measurements.

  "6"

  The default magnitude is the 95% confidence upper limit derived from a 4" radius aperture measurement taken at the position of the source on the Atlas Image. The sky background is estimated in an annular region with inner radius of 14" and outer radius of 20". This is used for pairs of sources which are detected and resolved in another band, but are detected and not resolved in this band. This differs from a rflg="0" because in this case there is a detection of the source in this band, but it is not consistently resolved across all bands.

  "9"

  The default magnitude is the 95% confidence upper limit derived from a 4" radius aperture measurement taken at the position of the source on the Atlas Image. The sky background is estimated in an annular region with inner radius of 14" and outer radius of 20". This is used for sources that were nominally detected in this band, but which could not have a useful brightness measurement from either profile fitting or aperture photometry. This often occurs in highly confused regions, or very near Tile edges where a significant fraction of the measurement aperture of sky annulus falls off the focal plane.

• Note b

  Blend flag (upstream's bl_flg). This is a three character flag, one character per band [JHKs], that indicates the number of components that were fit simultaneously when estimating the brightness of a source:

  "0"

  Source is not detected, or is inconsistently deblended in that band.

  "1"

  One component was fit to the source in R_2 profile-fitting photometry (rd_flg="2"), or default magnitudes are from aperture photometry (rd_flg="1" or "4") or saturated star 1-d radial profile-fitting (rd_flg="3").

  ">1"

  More than one component was fit simultaneously during R2 profile-fit photometry, where the value of the field is the number of components simultaneously fit. The maximum number of components is 7 in any band for the PSC, so this bflg is always a three character flag. Multi-component fitting occurs only for profile-fitting, and only when more than one detection is found within ~5". Single detections that are not well-fit by a single PSF are not split.