CDS xMatch service documentation: Retrieving result

1.6 Retrieving result

When a job has successfully completed, a short summary of its execution is available by clicking on the info icon .
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The histogram of the distances between the computed associations can also be displayed:
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If the job has failed, click on See details button to get more information on the error origin.
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In order to download the result, click on $\includegraphics[width=0.15\textwidth ]{img/get-result.jpg}$ .
The result can be retrieved either as a CSV (comma-separated values), an ASCII (column-aligned) or a VOTable file. In the result, each row is a concatenation of the following fields: distance between catalogue A and catalogue B sources, distance in sigma (if positional errors were taken into account), fields from catalogue A, fields from catalogue B.