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astro-ph.SR2016★ 30 cited

Chromospherically Active Stars in the RAVE Survey. II. Young dwarfs in the Solar neighborhood

M. Žerjal, T. Zwitter, G. Matijevič +19

A large sample of over 38,000 chromospherically active candidate solar-like stars and cooler dwarfs from the RAVE survey is addressed in this paper. An improved activity identifica…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 36 cited

The selection function of the RAVE survey

Jennifer Wojno, Georges Kordopatis, Tilmann Piffl +23

We characterize the selection function of RAVE using 2MASS as our underlying population, which we assume represents all stars which could have potentially been observed. We evaluat…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 2 cited

A test field for Gaia. Radial velocity catalogue of stars in the South Ecliptic Pole

Y. Frémat, M. Altmann, E. Pancino +25

Gaia is a space mission currently measuring the five astrometric parameters as well as spectrophotometry of at least 1 billion stars to G = 20.7 mag with unprecedented precision. T…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 29 cited

On-orbit performance of the Gaia CCDs at L2

C. Crowley, R. Kohley, N. C. Hambly +19

The European Space Agency's Gaia satellite was launched into orbit around L2 in December 2013 with a payload containing 106 large-format scientific CCDs. The primary goal of the mi…

astro-ph.IM2016

The Milky Way's halo in 6D: Gaia's Radial Velocity Spectrometer performance

George Seabroke, Mark Cropper, David Katz +9

Gaia's Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) has been operating in routine phase for over one year since initial commissioning. RVS continues to work well but the higher than expected…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 80 cited

The RAVE-on catalog of stellar atmospheric parameters and chemical abundances for chemo-dynamic studies in the Gaia era

Andrew R. Casey, Keith Hawkins, David W. Hogg +24

The orbits, atmospheric parameters, chemical abundances, and ages of individual stars in the Milky Way provide the most comprehensive illustration of galaxy formation available. Th…