Repository details
RAVE database
Name of repository
RAVE database
Additional name(s)
- Radial Velocity Experiment Database
Repository URL
Subject(s)
Description
RAVE (RAdial Velocity Experiment) is a multi-fiber spectroscopic astronomical survey of stars in the Milky Way using the 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope of the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO). The RAVE collaboration consists of researchers from over 20 institutions around the world and is coordinated by the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam. As a southern hemisphere survey covering 20,000 square degrees of the sky, RAVE's primary aim is to derive the radial velocity of stars from the observed spectra. Additional information is also derived such as effective temperature, surface gravity, metallicity, photometric parallax and elemental abundance data for the stars. The survey represents a giant leap forward in our understanding of our own Milky Way galaxy; with RAVE's vast stellar kinematic database the structure, formation and evolution of our Galaxy can be studied.
Contact(s)
- administrative: msteinmetz@aip.de
- administrative: https://www.rave-survey.org/accounts/login/?next=/contact/
Keyword(s)
Repository size
518.387 observations of 451.783 stars
Repository type(s)
- disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- English
Data and/or service provider
- dataProvider
Dates
Started
2003
Institutions (10)
Additional name(s)
- ANU
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- ARC
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- ERC
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- ANR
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- DFG
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- JHU
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam
- AIP
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- general
- technical
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- AAO
- Australian Astronomical Optics Macquarie
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- NSF
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Additional name(s)
- Universität Heidelberg, Zentrum für Astronomie, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut
- ARI
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Policies (3)
Policy name
Policy name
Policy name
Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Data access (2)
Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
- registration
Type of access to data
open
Data licenses (1)
Data license
Data upload (1)
Type of data upload
closed
Persistent identifier system(s)
- DOI
Name of the repository software
- other
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
Application programming interfaces (3)
Type
OAI-PMH
Url
Type
other
Url
Type
REST
Url
Metadata standards (1)
Metadata standard
Remarks
Entry date
2013-07-23
Last update
2026-03-03
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