Other photometric observations (detections)
Due to overlaps in imaging stripes, the SDSS sometimes observes the same
object more than once. In such cases, we select one observation as PRIMARY (mode=1). Each
astronomical object is assigned a thingID, and each time that "thing" is observed (detected
in SDSS imaging), it assigned a separate objID.
Information about each astronomical "thing" is stored in the
thingIndex
table; thingIndex is a thin coupling table designed only to connect repeat observations.
Information about each individual observation (detection) is in the
photoObjAll table. (Note that
photoObj contains only the primary [mode=1] and secondary [mode=2] observations of each "thing.")
The detectionIndex table connects each objID to the thingID it corresponds with.
This detected object and its associated "Thing" (Primary observation)
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IAU name | objid | thingid | mode description | SDSS J001611.81-001321.0 | 1237663783662321761 | 87861735 | PRIMARY |
Other Observations of this "Thing"
objid | thingid | mode | mode description | 1237663783662321761 | 87861735 | 1 | PRIMARY | 1237667172391059550 | 87861735 | 2 | SECONDARY | 1237646011084898519 | 87861735 | 2 | SECONDARY | 1237659754982473817 | 87861735 | 2 | SECONDARY | 1237659905322909865 | 87861735 | 2 | SECONDARY | 1237660025579241685 | 87861735 | 2 | SECONDARY | 1237660223149965406 | 87861735 | 2 | SECONDARY | 1237660356286021834 | 87861735 | 2 | SECONDARY | 1237663276855787741 | 87861735 | 2 | SECONDARY | 1237663478735372393 | 87861735 | 2 | SECONDARY | 1237663525983223938 | 87861735 | 2 | SECONDARY | 1237663714942386252 | 87861735 | 2 | SECONDARY |
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