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Table 7.

Variability type completeness and contamination estimates of the SOS tables with respect to available cross-matched reference catalogues. For the classification of variability types without specific studies, we refer to Rimoldini et al. (2023).

Group Variability type Catalogue (and region) Completeness Contamination
AGN agn Gaia-CRF3 51% ≤5%
AGN agn SDSS-DR16Q (a) 47% ≤5%
Cepheids Classical Cepheids OGLE IV (MW) > 86% < 2%
Cepheids All Cepheids OGLE IV (LMC & SMC) ∼90% < 1%
Eclipsing binaries eclipsing_binary OGLE-IV (LMC/SMC/Bulge) 33/45/19% ∼5%
LPV long_period_variable ASAS-SN and OGLE III-LPV (b) 79–83% 0.7–2%
Microlensing microlensing OGLE-IV (Bulge, Disk) 30–80% < 1%
Rotation modulation rotation_modulation ZTF 0.4 % (c) 6%
Rotation modulation rotation_modulation ASAS-SN 0.4% 14%
RR Lyrae stars rrlyr OGLE-IV (LMC) 83% < 1.8%
RR Lyrae stars rrlyr OGLE-IV (SMC) 94% < 8%
RR Lyrae stars rrlyr OGLE-IV (Bulge-up) 79% < 0.15%
RR Lyrae stars rrlyr OGLE-IV (Bulge-down) 82%

Notes. The surveys used as references are SDSS (Lyke et al. 2020), OGLE (Udalski et al. 1992), ASAS-SN (Kochanek et al. 2017), and ZTF (Graham et al. 2019).

(a)

+10deg < Dec < +50deg and 130deg < RA < 220deg.

(b)

All OGLE-III regions are considered, but filtered by amplitude and specific sky positions. Contamination rate derived from ASAS-SN only.

(c)

The completeness is strongly dependent on the G magnitude and on the ecliptic latitude (see the discussion in Distefano et al. 2023 for further details).

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