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Table 1.

General description of the epoch photometry fields of the Gaia DR3 archive (for the INDIVIDUAL and COMBINED data structures).

Name Description Units/Further notes
source_id Gaia DR3 Source ID See Sect. 20.1.1 of documentation for encoding
transit_id Transit ID See Sect. 20.7.1 of documentation for encoding
band Observation passband G, BP or RP
time Time of observation Barycentric JD in TCB – 2455197.5 (day)
mag Magnitude of epoch Vega scale
flux Flux of epoch e s−1
flux_error Error on flux e s−1
flux_over_error Signal to noise ratio
rejected_by_photometry Rejected by photometric processing (CU5) True/False (unavailable, rejected or negative flux)
rejected_by_variability Rejected by variability processing (CU7) True/False (rejected)
other_flags Additional processing flags Coding described in Appendix B
solution_id Solution ID

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