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Modify RR Lyrae catalogues to be more consistent with earlier releases #570

Open wfastrononomer opened 3 days ago

wfastrononomer commented 3 days ago

I was looking at the tables for RR Lyrae stars in your paper from 2021 (table 3) and Muraveva from 2818 (table 1) to determine which set of common parameters can be associated to the VMC data release.

Keeping them as they are would be confusing for a user that queries the data from the data release.

I have also looked also at the different tables for Cepheids (which are going to also follow a single format), to try to make them as similar as possible, although RR Lyrae are fainter and were analysed differently.

It should however be possible to produce homogeneous tables for both galaxies. It is not necessary to include all parameters present into the paper, but there are a few parameters that were not present in either of the two papers. I think they can easily be added, but If this is not the case please let me know!

Would you be able to create one table including both galaxies that has the following parameters and then send it to Nick (and myself for paper writing) within this/next week or as soon as possible?

ID in full Ra Dec Type Period V mag Mean K mag and its uncertainty Peak-to-peak amplitude in K mag and its uncertainty [Fe/H] and its uncertainty E(V-I)