distances_binney (ravedr4.distances_binney)

Description

The page describes the columns and properties of the table with distances (J. Binney, 2014).

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
objectid	char	meta.id		Object identifier from used input catalogs Tycho, SuperCOSMOS, DENIS
met_b	float	phys.abund.Z		[m/H]
e_met_b	float	phys.abund.Z		Error of [m/H]
age	float	arith stat.error		Age estimation (log10(age))
e_age	float	stat.error arith		error of age estimation e_(log10(age))
mass	float	phys.mass	solMass	Mass
e_mass	float	stat.error phys.mass	solMass	Error of Mass
dist	float	pos.distance	kpc	Distance (kpc)
e_dist	float	stat.error pos.distance	kpc	Error of Distance
av	float	stat.error phys.absorption		log_10(Av) optical extinction, see p4 ff, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 1-8 (2012)
e_av	float	stat.error phys.absorption		error log_10(Av) optical extinction, see p4 ff, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 1-8 (2012)
parallax	float	pos.parallax	mas	Parallax
e_parallax	float	stat.error pos.parallax	mas
distancemodulus_binney	float	phot.mag.distMod	mag	Distance Modulus from Binney et al. 2014
edistancemodulus_binney	float	phot.mag.distMod	mag	Error of distance Modulus from Binney et al. 2014
n_gaussian	int	meta.number		Number of components required for multi-aussian distance modulus fit
gaussmean_1	float	stat.fit.param		Property of multi-Gaussian distance modulus fit, see Section 9, eq. 5
gausssigma_1	float	stat.fit.param		Property of multi-Gaussian distance modulus fit, see Section 9, eq. 5
gaussfrac_1	float	stat.fit.param		Property of multi-Gaussian distance modulus fit, see Section 9, eq. 5
gaussmean_2	float	stat.fit.param		Property of multi-Gaussian distance modulus fit, see Section 9, eq. 5
gausssigma_2	float	stat.fit.param		Property of multi-Gaussian distance modulus fit, see Section 9, eq. 5
gaussfrac_2	float	stat.fit.param		Property of multi-Gaussian distance modulus fit, see Section 9, eq. 5
gaussmean_3	float	stat.fit.param		Property of multi-Gaussian distance modulus fit, see Section 9, eq. 5
gausssigma_3	float	stat.fit.param		Property of multi-Gaussian distance modulus fit, see Section 9, eq. 5
gaussfrac_3	float	stat.fit.param		Property of multi-Gaussian distance modulus fit, see Section 9, eq. 5
chisq_binney	float	stat.fit.chi2		chi square
fitflag	int