Table information for 'personal.objects'

General

Table Description: Basic parameters of variable star targets included in the time-series archive

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Resource Description: This project is dedicated to publishing observations of variable stars, in particular light curves, from personal archives. All data has been published with the permission of the respective owners.

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Citing this table

This table has an associated publication. If you use data from it, it may be appropriate to reference 2021Ap.....64..458S (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:personal_objects,
  year=2026,
  title={Observations from personal collections},
  author={Shugarov, S.,Yu. and Vozyakova O.},
  url={https://skvo.science.upjs.sk/tableinfo/personal.objects},
  howpublished={{VO} resource provided by the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Archive}
}

Columns

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NameTable Head DescriptionUnitUCD
object_id Star ID Star identifier N/A meta.id;meta.main
raj2000 RA Right ascension deg pos.eq.ra;meta.main
dej2000 Dec Declination deg pos.eq.dec;meta.main
period Period Period of the variable star d src.var;time.period
epoch Epoch Time of maximum brightness; mjd (HJD) d src.var;time.epoch
identifiers Identifiers Other designation N/A meta.id
gaia_id Gaia DR3 ID Gaia DR3 identifier N/A meta.id
varclass Target class Target class (variable star class N/A src.class
ssa_targclass Ob. cls Object class (star, QSO,...; use Simbad object classification http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-display?data=otypes if at all possible) N/A src.class
ssa_collection Collection A short handle naming the collection this spectrum belongs to. N/A N/A
ssa_reference Ref. URL or bibcode of a publication describing this data. N/A meta.bib.bibcode
description Description Target description N/A meta.note

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