DR6 catalog of diagnostic data (ravedr6.dr6_obsdata)

Description

dr6_obsdata contains helpful diagnostic information regarding the Rave data and derived data products. This includes, e.g., the observing data, exposure time, fiber number, field plate, number of arc lines used for the wave length calibration, the coordinates of the field plate center, phase of Moon, and healpix coordinates.

Errata:

04.11.2021

2704 raveid carried a + instead of a - sign. Look into table dr6_errata_raveid. The table has been updated with the correct raveid.

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
ra_input	double	pos.eq.ra meta.main	deg	Right ascension (J2000)
dec_input	double	pos.eq.dec meta.main	deg	Declination (J2000)
field	char	meta.id meta.file		Observed area of one ECHIDNA observation
obsdate	int	time.obs time.epoch meta.code		Integer representing the Observation Date as: YYYYMMDD
fieldname	char	meta.id meta.file		Field name, derived from center of observed Field (RA/Dec)
fibernumber	int	meta.id.instr.part		Instrument fiber number (2df). Can take values between 1 and 150.
ut_start	char	time.start		Universal time (UT) at begin of the observation. Represented as: hours:minutes:seconds
ut_end	char	time.end		Universal time (UT) at the end of the observation. Represented as: hours:minutes:seconds
lst_start	char	time.start		Local Sideral Time at start of exposure. Represented as: hours:minutes:seconds
lst_end	char	time.end		Local Sideral Time at end of exposure. Represented as: hours:minutes:seconds
exposure_time	float	time.duration	s	Exposure time.
ra_plate	double	pos.eq.ra meta.main	deg	Right ascension of the centre of the plate
dec_plate	double	pos.eq.dec meta.main	deg	Declination of the centre of the plate
platenumber	int	instr.plate meta.id		Number of fieldplate on instrument. Can take values between 1 and 3.
airmass	float	obs.airMass		Air mass
lunar_phase	float	time.phase		Lunar phase
cluster_flag	char	meta.code.qual		Flags if the cluster observation was targeted or not. 0 = not a targeted, 1 = targeted.
n_repeats	int	meta.number		Number of repeat observation of a stellar object
footprint_flag	int	meta.code.qual		Flags if the selection function footprint (sff) is part of RAVE or outside. 1 = part of, 0 = outside.
healpix4096	long	meta.code		Hierarchical Equal-Area iso-Latitude Pixelisation value (N_side = 4096)
pos	char	pos		spoint provides quick positional matches. Necessary for cone searches.