Tomaz Zwitter: The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): second data release (or the party goes on)

Prof. Tomaz Zwitter, Oddelek za fiziko FMF Univerze v Ljubljani

The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): second data release (or the
party goes on)

We present the second data release of the Radial Velocity Experiment
(RAVE), an ambitious spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities
and stellar atmosphere parameters (temperature, metallicity, surface gravity,
and rotational velocity) of up to one million stars using the 6 degree-field
multi-object spectrograph on the UK Schmidt Telescope of the
Anglo-Australian Observatory. We will highlight some scientific uses
of this data set, which include the identification and study of the current
structure of the Galaxy and of remnants of its formation, recent
accretion events, as well as discovery of individual peculiar objects
and spectroscopic binary stars.