The radial velocity experiment (RAVE): first data release
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Article Title | The radial velocity experiment (RAVE): first data release |
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ERA Journal ID | 1048 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Steinmetz, M. (Author), Zwitter, T. (Author), Siebert, A. (Author), Watson, F. G. (Author), Freeman, K. C. (Author), Munari, U. (Author), Campbell, R. (Author), Williams, M. (Author), Seabroke, G. M. (Author), Wyse, R. F. G. (Author), Parker, Q. A. (Author), Bienayme, O. (Author), Roeser, S. (Author), Gibson, B. K. (Author), Gilmore, G. (Author), Grebel, E. K. (Author), Helmi, A. (Author), Navarro, J. F. (Author), Burton, D. (Author), Cass, C. J. P. (Author), Dawe, J. A. (Author), Fiegert, K. (Author), Hartley, M. (Author), Russell, K. S. (Author), Saunders, W. (Author), Enke, H. (Author), Bailin, J. (Author), Binney, J. (Author), Bland-Hawthorn, J. (Author), Boeche, C. (Author), Dehnen, W. (Author), Eisenstein, D. J. (Author), Evans, N. W. (Author), Fiorucci, M. (Author), Fulbright, J. P. (Author), Gerhard, O. (Author), Jauregi, U. (Author), Kelz, A. (Author), Mijovic, L. (Author), Minchev, I. (Author), Penarrubia, J. (Author), Parmentier, G. (Author), Quillen, A. C. (Author), Read, M. A. (Author), Ruchti, G. (Author), Scholz, R. D. (Author), Siviero, A. (Author), Smith, M. C. (Author), Sordo, R. (Author), Veltz, L. (Author), Vidrih, S. (Author), von Berlepsch, R. (Author), Boyle, B. J. (Author) and Schilbach, E. (Author) |
Journal Title | The Astronomical Journal |
Journal Citation | 132 (4), pp. 1645-1668 |
Article Number | 1645 |
Number of Pages | 24 |
Year | 2006 |
Publisher | IOP Publishing |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 0004-6256 |
1538-3881 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1086/506564 |
Web Address (URL) | http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/506564 |
Abstract | We present the first data release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), an ambitious spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities and stellar atmosphere parameters (temperature, metallicity, and surface gravity) of up to one million stars using the Six Degree Field multiobject spectrograph on the 1.2 m UK Schmidt Telescope of the Anglo-Australian Observatory. The RAVE program started in 2003, obtaining medium-resolution spectra (median R = 7500) in the Ca-triplet region (8410-8795 Å) for southern hemisphere stars drawn from the Tycho-2 and SuperCOSMOS catalogs, in the magnitude range 9 < I < 12. The first data release is described in this paper and contains radial velocities for 24,748 individual stars (25,274 measurements when including reobservations). Those data were obtained on 67 nights between 2003 April 11 and 2004 April 3. The total sky coverage within this data release is ~4760 deg2. The average signal-to-noise ratio of the observed spectra is 29.5, and 80% of the radial velocities have uncertainties better than 3.4 km s-1. Combining internal errors and zero-point errors, the mode is found to be 2 km s-1. Repeat observations are used to assess the stability of our radial velocity solution, resulting in a variance of 2.8 km s-1. We demonstrate that the radial velocities derived for the first data set do not show any systematic trend with color or signal-to-noise ratio. The RAVE radial velocities are complemented in the data release with proper motions from Starnet 2.0, Tycho-2, and SuperCOSMOS, in addition to photometric data from the major optical and infrared catalogs (Tycho-2, USNO-B, DENIS, and the Two Micron All Sky Survey). The data release can be accessed via the RAVE Web site. |
Keywords | catalogs; stars: fundamental parameters; surveys |
Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 510109. Stellar astronomy and planetary systems |
Public Notes | For access to this article, please click on the URL link provided. |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Byline Affiliations | Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics, Germany |
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
University of Strasbourg, France | |
Australian Astronomical Observatory, Australia | |
Australian National University | |
INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Italy | |
W. M. Keck Observatory, United States | |
University College London, United Kingdom | |
Johns Hopkins University, United States | |
Heidelberg University, Germany | |
University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom | |
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom | |
University of Groningen, Netherlands | |
University of Victoria, Canada | |
Anglo-Australian Observatory, Australia | |
Swinburne University of Technology | |
University of Oxford, United Kingdom | |
Macquarie University | |
University of Leicester, United Kingdom | |
University of Arizona, United States | |
Max Planck Society, Germany | |
Astrophysical Institute of Potsdam, Germany | |
University of Rochester, United States | |
Royal Observatory Edinburgh, United Kingdom | |
Johns Hopkins University, United States | |
University of Padua, Italy | |
Observatory of Strasbourg, France | |
Australia Telescope National Facility, Australia |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q2vx8/the-radial-velocity-experiment-rave-first-data-release
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