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- September 4: Estimation of the Tilt of the Stellar Velocity Ellipsoid from RAVE and Implications for Mass Models by Siebert et al. The paper is available on astro-ph
- August 11: Diffuse interstellar bands in RAVE Survey spectra
by Munari et al. The paper is available on astro-ph
- July 29: 2nd data release is made available: download site
- June 08: RAVE: Second data release paper has been accepted. The paper is available
online here. The
data will be made public in July.
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Going
six-dimensional: Astrometry is giving positions, distances and proper
motions of stars. The final dimension to fully define the motion of
stars in the Galaxy is provided by RAVE.
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| radial velocities completing astrometric missions |
| 2003-2005: 100,000 stars |
| 2006-2010: up to 1,000,000 stars |
| accuracy of velocity determination to better than 5 km/s |
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