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Volume 699, July 2025
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Article Number | A300 | |
Number of page(s) | 21 | |
Section | Extragalactic astronomy | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202554254 | |
Published online | 21 July 2025 |
The VMC survey
LII. Data release #7: Complete survey data and data from additional programmes
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Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
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Institute for Astronomy, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, United Kingdom
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INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, salita Moiariello 16, I-80131 Napoli, Italy
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INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy
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School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Macquarie University, Balaclava Road, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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Astrophysics and Space Technologies Research Centre, Macquarie University, Balaclava Road, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia
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International Space Science Institute–Beijing, 1 Nanertiao, Zhongguancun, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100190, China
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INAF – Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio, Via Gobetti 93/3, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
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Lennard-Jones Laboratories, Keele University, Keele ST5 5BG, United Kingdom
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Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België, Ringlaan 3, B-1180 Brussels, Belgium
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European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany
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ICRAR, M468, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, United Kingdom
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Max-Planck-Institut fü Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse 1, D-85748 Garching bei München, Germany
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Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Haus 28, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Indian Institute of Astrophysics, II Block Koramangala, Bengaluru 560034, India
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Scuola Superiore Meridionale,Largo S. Marcellino 10, I-80138 Napoli, Italy
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Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Napoli, Via Cinthia 21, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
⋆ Corresponding author: mcioni@aip.de
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2025
Context. The near-infrared YJKs Visual and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC) is complete, along with data from additional programmes contributing to the enhancement of its quality over the original footprints.
Aims. This work presents the final data release of the VMC survey, which includes additional observations and provides an overview of the scientific results. The overall data quality has been revised and reprocessed standard data products that have previously appeared in earlier data releases are made available together with new data products. These include the individual stellar proper motions, reddening towards red clump stars, and source classifications. Several data products, such as the parameters of some variable stars and of background galaxies, from the VMC publications have been associated with a data release for the first time.
Methods. The data were processed using the VISTA Data Flow System and additional products (e.g. catalogues with point-spread-function photometry and tables with stellar proper motions) were obtained with software developed by the survey team.
Results. This release supersedes all previous data releases of the VMC survey for the combined (deep-stacked) data products, whilst providing additional (complementary) images and catalogues of single observations per filter. Overall, it includes about 64 million detections, split nearly evenly between sources with stellar or galaxy profiles.
Conclusions. The VMC survey provides a homogeneous data set resulting from deep and multi-epoch YJKs-band imaging observations of the Large and Small Clouds, the Bridge, and two fields in the Stream. The VMC data represent a valuable counterpart for sources detected at other wavelengths for both stars and background galaxies.
Key words: surveys / Magellanic Clouds / infrared: stars
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