RAVE second data release (ravedr3.rave_dr2)

The table has 51817 rows, 67 columns.

Description

Spectroscopic radial velocities for 49327 stars in the Milky-Way southern hemisphere using the 6dF instrument at the AAO. Stellar parameters are published for a set of 21121 stars belonging to the second year of observation.

Attribution

Funding for Rave has been provided by:

the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP);
the Australian Astronomical Observatory;
the Australian National University;
the Australian Research Council;
the French National Research Agency;
the German Research Foundation (SPP 1177 and SFB 881);
the European Research Council (ERC-StG 240271 Galactica);
the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica at Padova;
the Johns Hopkins University;
the National Science Foundation of the USA (AST-0908326);
the W. M. Keck foundation;
the Macquarie University;
the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy;
the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada;
the Slovenian Research Agency;
the Swiss National Science Foundation;
the Science & Technology FacilitiesCouncil of the UK;
Opticon;
Strasbourg Observatory;
the Universities of Basel, Groningen, Heidelberg and Sydney.

This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the GaiaData Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement.

Columns

Name	Type	UCD	Unit	Description
rave_obs_id	char	meta.id		Unique Identifier for RAVE objects, Observation Date, Fieldname, Fibernumber
raveid	char	meta.id		(J2000 GCS) sprintf("J%02d%02d%04.1f%s%02d%02d%02d",$RA_h,$RA_m,(int(10*$RA_s+0.51))/10.0,$DEsign,$DE_h,$DE_m,int($DE_s+0.51)) RA(hh:mm:ss) Dec(hh:mm:ss) from fits file
objectid	char	meta.id		Object identifier from used input catalogs: Tycho, SuperCOSMOS, DENIS
radeg	double	pos.eq.ra	deg	Right Ascension (J2000)
dedeg	double	pos.eq.dec	deg	Declination (J2000)
glon	double	pos.galactic.lon	deg	Longitude (J2000 GCS)
glat	double	pos.galactic.lat	deg	Latitude (J2000 GCS)
hrv	float	spect.dopplerVeloc pos.heliocentric	km/s	Heliocentric radial velocity
erv	float	stat.error spect.dopplerVeloc	km/s	statistical error of RV value
pmra	float	pos.pm	mas/yr	Proper Motion (Right Ascension)
epmra	float	stat.error pos.pm	mas/yr	Proper Motion error (Right Ascension)
pmde	float	pos.pm	mas/yr	Proper Motion (Declination)
epmde	float	stat.error pos.pm	mas/yr	Proper Motion error (Declination)
spm	short	meta.id.part	[0,1,2,3,4]	source of proper motion (1)
imag	float	phot.mag em.opt.I	mag	Input Catalog I magnitude
obsdate	char	time.obs	YYYYMMDD	Observation Date (YYYYMMDD)
fieldname	char	meta.id meta.file		HHMMsDD Name of RAVE field
platenumber	short	meta.id instr.plate	[1,2,3]	Instrument Plate Number
fibernumber	short	meta.id.instr.part	[1,150]	Instrument FiberNumber
teff	float	phys.temperature.effective	K	Effective Temperature
logg	float	phys.gravity		Gravity
met	float	phys.abund.Z		[m/H]
alpha	float
cmet	float
chisq	float	stat.fit.chi2		chi square
s2n	float	stat.snr		DR2 signal to noise
correlationcoeff	float	stat.correlation		Tonry-Davis $R$ correlation coefficient
peakheight	float	stat.correlation stat.value	[0,1]	Height of correlation peak
peakwidth	float	stat.correlation stat.value	km/s	Width of correlation peak
correctionrv	float	spect.dopplerVeloc arith.zp	km/s	Zero point correction applied Heliocentric Radial Velocity
skyrv	float	spect.dopplerVeloc	km/s	Measured HRV of sky
skyerv	float	stat.error spect.dopplerVeloc	km/s	error HRV of sky
skycorrelation	float	stat.correlation		Sky Tonry-Davis Correlation coefficient
snratio	float	stat.snr		Signal/Noise Ratio of Pipeline V 5.x
bt	float	phot.mag em.opt.B	mag	Tycho-2 BT magnitude
ebt	float	stat.error phot.mag em.opt.B	mag	error BT
vt	float	phot.mag em.opt.V	mag	Tycho-2 VT magnitude
evt	float	stat.error phot.mag em.opt.V	mag	error VT
usnoid	char	meta.id.cross		USNO-B designation
disusno	float	meta.id.cross pos.angDistance	mas	Distance to USNO-B source
b1	float	phot.mag em.opt.B	mag	USNO-B B1 magnitude
r1	float	phot.mag em.opt.R	mag	USNO-B R1 magnitude
b2	float	phot.mag em.opt.B	mag	USNO-B B2 magnitude
r2	float	phot.mag em.opt.R	mag	USNO-B R2 magnitude
iusno	float	phot.mag em.IR.I	mag	USNO-B I magnitude
xidqualityflagusno	char	meta.code.qual		CrossMatch Quality Flag (RAVE-Protocol)
denisid	char	meta.id.cross		DENIS designation
disdenis	float	meta.id.cross pos.angDistance	mas	Distance to DENIS source
idenis	float	phot.mag em.IR.I	mag	DENIS I magnitude
eidenis	float	stat.error phot.mag em.opt.I	mag	error DENIS I magnitude
jdenis	float	phot.mag em.IR.J	mag	DENIS J magnitude
ejdenis	float	stat.error phot.mag em.IR.J	mag	error DENIS J magnitude
kdenis	float	phot.mag em.IR.K	mag	DENIS K magnitude
ekdenis	float	stat.error phot.mag em.IR.K	mag	error DENIS K magnitude
xidqualityflagdenis	char	meta.code.qual		CrossMatch Quality Flag (RAVE-Protocol)
twomassid	char	meta.id.cross		2MASS designation
dis2mass	float	meta.id.cross pos.angDistance	mas	Distance to 2MASS source
j2mass	float	phot.mag em.IR.J	mag	2MASS J magnitude
ej2mass	float	stat.error phot.mag em.IR.J	mag	error 2MASS J magnitude
h2mass	float	phot.mag em.IR.H	mag	2MASS H magnitude
eh2mass	float	stat.error phot.mag em.IR.H	mag	error 2MASS H magnitude
k2mass	float	phot.mag em.IR.K	mag	2MASS K magnitude
ek2mass	float	stat.error phot.mag em.IR.K	mag	error 2MASS K magnitude
twomassphotflag	char	meta.code.qual		2MASS photometric flag
xidqualityflag2mass	char	meta.code.qual		CrossMatch Quality Flag (RAVE-Protocol)
zeropointqualityflag	char	meta.code.qual
spectraflag	char	meta.code.qual		Quality Flag for Spectra (see DR3, Note 4)