distances_binney (ravedr4.distances_binney)

The table has 387930 rows, 28 columns.

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