Tomaž Zwitter

Univerza v Ljubljani, Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko

torek, 1. 4. 2008, ob 15h v F6

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.