RAVE 3rd data release (Siebert+, 2011) =========================================================================================================================== The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): third data release. A. Siebert, M. Williams, A. Siviero, W. Reid, C. Boeche, M. Steinmetz, J. Fulbright, U. Munari, T. Zwitter, F. G. Watson, R. F. G. Wyse, R. S. de Jong, H. Enke, B. Anguiano, D. Burton, C. J. P. Cass, K. Fiegert, M. Hartley, A. Ritter, K. S. Russel, M. Stupar, O. Bienayme, K. C. Freeman, G. Gilmore, E. K. Grebel, A. Helmi, J. F. Navarro, J. Binney, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R. Campbell, B. Famaey, O. Gerhard, B. K. Gibson, G. Matijevic, Q. A. Parker, G. M. Seabroke, S. Sharma, M. C. Smith, and E. Wylie-de Boer =========================================================================================================================== ADC_Keywords: Surveys ; Radial velocities; Milky Way; Stars, fundamental ; Photometry Keywords: catalogs- stars: fundamental parameters- surveys Abstract: We present the third data release of the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) which is the first milestone of the RAVE project, releasing the full pilot survey. The catalog contains 83,072 radial velocity measurements for 77,461 stars in the southern celestial hemisphere, as well as stellar parameters for 39,833 stars. This paper describes the content of the new release, the new processing pipeline, as well as an updated calibration for the metallicity based upon the observation of additional standard stars. Spectra will be made available in a future release. The data release can be accessed via the RAVE Web site http://www.rave-survey.org. Description: Spectroscopic radial velocities for 83,072 stars in the Milky-Way southern hemisphere using the 6dF instrument at the AAO. Stellar parameters are published for a set of 39,833 stars belonging to the second and third years of observation. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe - This file RAVE_DR3A.dat 52770 RAVE catalog A with position, radial velocities, atmospheric parameters and photometry RAVE_DR3B.dat 25800 RAVE catalog B with position, radial velocities and photometry -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: I/284 : The USNO-B1.0 Catalog (Monet+ 2003) II/246 : 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003) B/denis : The DENIS database (DENIS Consortium, 2005) Byte-by-byte Description of file: ravedr2.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 1- 16 A16 - Name Target designation 2 18- 34 A16 - RAVEID RAVE target designation 3 36- 48 F12.8 deg RAdeg Right ascension (J2000.0) 4 50- 62 F12.8 deg DEdeg Declination (J2000.0) 5 64- 73 F9.5 deg GLON Galactic longitude 6 75- 84 F9.5 deg GLAT Galactic latitude 7 86- 93 F7.1 km/s HRV Heliocentric radial velocity 8 95-101 F6.1 km/s eHRV HRV error 9 103-109 F6.1 mas/yr pmRA ?=NULL proper motion RA 10 111-117 F6.1 mas/yr epmRA ?=NULL error proper motion RA 11 119-125 F6.1 mas/yr pmDE ?=NULL proper motion DE 12 127-133 F6.1 mas/yr epmDE ?=NULL error proper motion DE 13 135-136 I1 - Spm ?=0 source of proper motion (1) 14 138-143 F5.2 mag Imag Input catalog I magnitude 15 145-153 A8 - Obsdate Date of observation yyyymmdd 16 155-165 A10 - FieldName Name of RAVE field 17 167-168 I1 - PlateNumber Plate number used 18 170-173 I3 - FiberNumber Fiber number [1,150] 19 175-180 I5 K Teff ?=NULL Effective Temperature 20 182-186 F4.2 dex logg ?=NULL Gravity 21 188-193 F5.2 dex Met ?=NULL [m/H] 22 195-199 F4.2 dex alpha ?=NULL [Alpha/Fe] 23 201-209 F8.1 - CHISQ ?=NULL chi square 24 211-216 F5.1 - S2N ?=NULL DR2 signal to noise S2N 25 218-223 F5.1 - STN ?=NULL Pre-flux calibration signal to noise STN 26 225-230 F5.1 - CorrelationCoeff Tonry-Davis R correlation coeff 27 232-236 F4.2 - PeakHeight Height of correlation peak 28 238-244 F6.1 km/s PeakWidth Width of correlation peak 29 246-252 F6.1 km/s CorrectionRV Zero point correction applied 30 254-260 F6.1 km/s SkyRV ?=NULL Measured HRV of sky 31 262-268 F6.1 km/s SkyeRV ?=NULL error HRV of sky 32 270-275 F5.1 - SkyCorrelation ?=NULL Sky Tonry-Davis correlation coefficient 33 277-282 F5.1 - SNRatio ?=NULL Spectra signal to noise ratio 34 284-290 F6.3 mag BT ?=NULL Tycho-2 BT magnitude 35 292-298 F6.3 mag eBT ?=NULL error BT 36 300-306 F6.3 mag VT ?=NULL Tycho-2 VT magnitude 37 308-314 F6.3 mag eVT ?=NULL error VT 38 316-328 A12 - USNOID ?=NULL USNO-B designation 39 330-336 F6.3 mas DisUSNO ?=NULL Distance to USNO-B source 40 338-343 F5.2 mag B1 ?=NULL USNO-B B1 magnitude 41 345-350 F5.2 mag R1 ?=NULL USNO-B R1 magnitude 42 352-357 F5.2 mag B2 ?=NULL USNO-B B2 magnitude 43 359-364 F5.2 mag R2 ?=NULL USNO-B R2 magnitude 44 366-371 F5.2 mag IUSNO ?=NULL USNO-B I magnitude 45 373-374 A1 - XidQualityUSNO ?=NULL Cross-identification flag (2) 46 376-392 A16 - DENISID ?=NULL DENIS designation 47 394-400 F6.3 mas DisDENIS ?=NULL Distance to DENIS source 48 402-408 F6.3 mag IDENIS ?=NULL DENIS I magnitude 49 410-414 F4.2 mag eIDENIS ?=NULL error DENIS I magnitude 50 416-422 F6.3 mag JDENIS ?=NULL DENIS J magnitude 51 424-428 F4.2 mag eJDENIS ?=NULL error DENIS J magnitude 52 430-436 F6.3 mag KDENIS ?=NULL DENIS K magnitude 53 438-442 F4.2 mag eKDENIS ?=NULL error DENIS K magnitude 54 444-445 A1 - XidQualityDENIS ?=NULL Cross-identification flag (2) 55 447-463 A16 - TWOMASSID ?=NULL 2MASS designation 56 465-471 F6.3 mas Dis2MASS ?=NULL Distance to 2MASS source 57 473-479 F6.3 mag J2MASS ?=NULL 2MASS J magnitude 58 481-485 F4.2 mag eJ2MASS ?=NULL error 2MASS J magnitude 59 487-493 F6.3 mag H2MASS ?=NULL 2MASS H magnitude 60 495-499 F4.2 mag eH2MASS ?=NULL error 2MASS H magnitude 61 501-507 F6.3 mag K2MASS ?=NULL 2MASS K magnitude 62 509-513 F4.2 mag eK2MASS ?=NULL error 2MASS K magnitude 63 515-518 A3 - TWOMASSphotFLAG ?=NULL 2MASS photometric flag 64 520-521 A1 - XidQuality2MASS ?=NULL Cross-identification flag (2) 65 523-526 A5 - ZeroPointFLAG Zero point correction flag (3) 66 528-536 A8 - SpectraFLAG ?=NULL Spectra quality flag (4) 67 538-542 F4.2 - MaskFLAG ?=NULL MASK flag (5) Note (1): Source of proper motion as follows: 0 = no proper motion 1 = Tycho-2 proper motion 2 = Supercosmos Sky Survey proper motion 3 = PPMX proper motion 4 = GSC1.2 x 2MASS proper motion 5 = UCAC-2 proper motions 6 = USNO-B proper motions Note (2): Cross-identification flag as follows: A = good association B = 2 solutions within 1arcsec C = more than two solutions within 1arcsec D = nearest neighbour more than 2arcsec away X = no possible counterpart found Note (3): Flag value of the form FGSH, F being for the entire plate, G for the 50 fibers group to which the fiber belongs. S flags the zero-point correction used: C for cubic and S for a constant shift. If H is set to * the fiber is close to a 15 fiber gap. For F and G the values can be A, B, C, D, or E A = dispersion around correction lower than 1km/s B = dispersion between 1 and 2km/s C = dispersion between 2 and 3km/s D = dispersion larger than 3km/s E = less than 15 fibers available for the fit Note (4): Flag identifying possible problem in the spectra (values can be combined) as follows: a = asymmetric Ca lines c = cosmic ray pollution e = emission line spectra n = noise dominated spectra l = no lines visible w = weak lines g = strong ghost t = bad template fit s = strong residual sky emission cc = bad continuum r = red part of the spectra shows problem b = blue part of the spectra shows problem p = possible binary/doubled lined x = peculiar object Note (5): Flag identifying the fraction of the spectrum unaffected by continuum problems from the MASK program. Spectrum with MaskFLAG lower than 0.70 must be used with caution. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgements: Funding for RAVE has been provided by: the Australian Astronomical Observatory; the Leibniz-Institut fŸr Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP); the Australian National University; the Australian Research Council; the French National Research Agency; the German Research Foundation; 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 Facilities Council of the UK; Opticon; Strasbourg Observatory; and the Universities of Groningen, Heidelberg and Sydney. The RAVE web site is at http://www.rave-survey.org =========================================================================================================================== (End) Mary Williams 19-Apr-2011