xMatch modifications

Evolution of the CDS xMatch catalogue cross-matching service, and list of new very large catalogue tables being added.

Table release notes by date

  • Add SDSS DR16 (V/154/sdss16)
    Please see the VizieR ReadMe file for acknowledging the usage of this particular catalogue.
  • Add GSC 2.4.2 (I/353/gsc242)
    Please see the VizieR ReadMe file for acknowledging the usage of this particular catalogue.
  • Add DES DR2 (II/371/des_dr2)
    Please see the VizieR ReadMe file for acknowledging the usage of this particular catalogue.
  • Add Starhorse 2021 (I/354/starhorse2021)
    Please see the VizieR ReadMe file for acknowledging the usage of this particular catalogue.
  • Add SSTSL2 (II/368/sstsl2)
  • Vexas
    Add Vexas DES (II/369/vexasdes), Vexas PS (II/369/vexasps) and Vexas PM (II/369/vexaspm). Please see the VizieR ReadMe file for acknowledging the usage of this particular catalogue.
  • Add ATLAS Refcat 2 (J/ApJ/867/105/refcat2)
    Please see the VizieR ReadMe file for acknowledging the usage of this particular catalogue.
  • Add GPS1+ (I/351/gps1_p)
    Please see the VizieR ReadMe file for acknowledging the usage of this particular catalogue.
  • VMC DR4
    Add ap3 magnitudes columns (and associated errors) to the VMC_DR4 catalogue (II/351/vmc_dr4).
  • Add Gaia EDR3 catalogue (I/352/gedr3dis)
    Please see the VizieR ReadMe file for acknowledging the usage of this particular catalogue.
  • AllWISE

    The computed position angle (column named errPosAng) for this catalogue was defined as being north-of-east instead of east-of-north until February 16 2021 at 10:15 UTC+1.

    This issue is now fixed.

  • Add ESO catalogue VVV VIRAC PM DR4.1 (II/364/virac)
    Please see the VizieR ReadMe file for acknowledging the usage of this particular catalogue.
  • Add ESO catalogue VHS DR5 (II/367/vhs_dr5)
    Please see the VizieR ReadMe file for acknowledging the usage of this particular catalogue.
  • Gaia EDR3 J2016

    Remove duplicated _epoch2000_error columns.

    Add the original ra_error, dec_error columns.

  • Gaia EDR3 (I/350/gaiaedr3)

    The computed position angle (column named errPosAng) for this catalogue was defined as being north-of-east instead of east-of-north until January 29 2021.

    This issue is now fixed.

    More significant digits have been added to the elliptical error parameters:

    parameter previous format new format
    errHalfMaj %.3f %.7f
    errHalfMin %.3f %.7f
    errPosAng %.0f %.2f

    Columns phot_bp_rp_excess_factor and phot_bp_rp_excess_factor_corrected have been added.

  • Gaia EDR3 Epoch 2016

    The computed position angle (column named errPosAng) for this catalogue was defined as being north-of-east instead of east-of-north until January 29 2021.

    This issue is now fixed.

    More significant digits have been added to the elliptical error parameters:

    parameter previous format new format
    errHalfMaj %.3f %.7f
    errHalfMin %.3f %.7f
    errPosAng %.0f %.2f

    Columns phot_bp_rp_excess_factor and phot_bp_rp_excess_factor_corrected have been added.

    Fix the error ellipse (in arcseconds) which was built from ra/1000 and dec/1000 instead of ra_error/1000.0 and dec_error/1000.0

    Fix misleading names: the ra_epoch2000, ra_epoch2000_error, dec_epoch2000, dec_epoch2000_error columns were unproperly renamed ra, ra_error, dec, dec_error, leading to duplicated ra and dec column names, and misleading the interpretation of these columns.

  • Add CatWISE2020 (II/365/catwise)

    Cross-matches are based on the "stationary" positions RAdeg and DEdeg.

    Position RAdeg, DEdeg and proper motions pmRA, pmDE have been corrected according to CatWISE2020_Table1_20201012.tbl.

    Please, see the VizieR ReadMe file for acknowledging the usage of this particular catalogue.

xMatch service Release notes

  • Change asynchronous long jobs timeout from 1h to 2h.

    Change asynchronous short jobs timeout from 10min to 15min.

  • Hardware problems (resulting in poor execution times) are fixed.
  • API released
    xMatch API released.
  • Web interface now works fine under IE8+.
  • Added VOTable as output format.
  • Added ASCII as output format.
  • Version 1.0

    First public release of the xMatch service.