VVV Infrared Astrometric Catalogue v2 release (VIRAC2)

We present VIRAC2, a catalogue of positions, proper motions, parallaxes and Z, Y, J, H, and Ks near-infrared photometric time series of 545,346,537 unique stars. The catalogue is based on a point spread function fitting reduction of nearly a decade of VISTA VVV and VVVX images, which cover 560deg^2^ of the Southern Galactic plane and bulge. The catalogue is complete at the >90 per cent level for 11

Identifier
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/II/387
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/II/387
Related Identifier https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=II/387
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/387
Provenance
Creator Smith L.C.; Lucas P.W.; Koposov S.E.; Gonzalez-Fernandez C.,Alonso-Garcia J.; Minniti D.; Sanders J.L.; Bedin L.R.; Belokurov V.,Evans N.W.; Hempel M.; Ivanov V.D.; Kurtev R.G.; Saito R.K.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2025
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics