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Description
A table of the light curves released with Gaia DR2 (about half a million
in total). In each Gaia band (G, BP, RP), we give epochs, fluxes and
their errors in arrays. We do not include the quality flags (DR2: “may
be safely ignored for many general purpose applications”). You can
access them through the associated datalink service if you select
source_id. You will usually join this table with gaia.dr2light.
We have also removed all entries with NaN observation times; hence,
the array lengths in the different bands can be significantly different,
and the indices in transit_ids do not always correspond to the
indices in the time series.
Furthermore, we only give fluxes and their errors here rather than
magnitudes. Fluxes can be turned into magnitude using::
mag = -2.5 log10(flux)+zero point,
where the zero points assumed for Gaia DR2 are
25.6884±0.0018 in G, 25.3514±0.0014 in BP, and
24.7619±0.0019 in RP (VEGAMAG).
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