DR6 catalog of diagnostic data (ravedr6.dr6_obsdata)
The table has 518387 rows, 22 columns.
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 |
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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. |