2018
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201832763
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GaiaData Release 2

Abstract: This paper presents the specification, design, and development of the Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) on the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission. Starting with the rationale for the full six dimensions of phase space in the dynamical modelling of the Galaxy, the scientific goals and derived top-level instrument requirements are discussed, leading to a brief description of the initial concepts for the instrument. The main part of the paper is a description of the flight RVS, considering the optical design, … Show more

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“…However, for many binaries spectroscopic follow-up may not be required. Over its five-year nominal lifetime, Gaia takes an average of 40 separate radial velocity measurements of every star with G 16 using its radial velocity spectrometer (although note that only the integrated spectra will be useful for stars this faint; epoch radial velocities with reasonable signal-to-noise require stars somewhat brighter; Cropper et al 2018). The precision of these radial velocity observations depend on both a given star's magnitude and its stellar type (late-type stars, which have more spectral lines, tend to be better measured), but may be <1 km s −1 .…”
Section: Radial Velocities and An Extended Gaia Missionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, for many binaries spectroscopic follow-up may not be required. Over its five-year nominal lifetime, Gaia takes an average of 40 separate radial velocity measurements of every star with G 16 using its radial velocity spectrometer (although note that only the integrated spectra will be useful for stars this faint; epoch radial velocities with reasonable signal-to-noise require stars somewhat brighter; Cropper et al 2018). The precision of these radial velocity observations depend on both a given star's magnitude and its stellar type (late-type stars, which have more spectral lines, tend to be better measured), but may be <1 km s −1 .…”
Section: Radial Velocities and An Extended Gaia Missionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Galactic archaeology is at present being propelled by a number of completed or ongoing large-scale spectroscopic surveys: e.g. RAVE (Steinmetz et al 2006), SEGUE (Yanny et al 2009), LAMOST Zhao et al 2012), Gaia-ESO (Gilmore et al 2012), GALAH (De Silva et al 2015), APOGEE (Majewski et al 2017), and the Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (Cropper et al 2018); as well as email: mxiang@mpia.de * Hubble fellow upcoming surveys such as SDSS-V (Kollmeier et al 2017), 4MOST (Feltzing et al 2018;de Jong et al 2019), and WEAVE (Dalton et al 2014). These spectroscopic surveys, combined with the astrometric and photometric information from the Gaia mission (Gaia Collaboration et al 2016Collaboration et al , 2018, make it possible for us to obtain precise and accurate information for millions of stars in phase space or orbit space, along with estimates of age, mass, metallicity, and abundances for many elements, providing unprecedented opportunities to unravel the assemblage and evolution history of our Galaxy (see e.g., Rix & Bovy 2013;Ting, Conroy & Goodman 2015;Xiang et al 2017aXiang et al , 2018Frankel et al 2018;Bland-Hawthorn et al 2019).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) was released on 25 April 2018, based on 22 months of observations made between 25 July 2014 to 23 May 2016. Gaia DR2 includes the position, parallax, and proper motion measurements (Gaia Collaboration et al 2018a), red and blue photometric data for about 1.3 billion stars (Evans et al 2018) and radial velocity values of about 7 million stars (Cropper et al 2018).…”
Section: Data Analysis With Gaia Dr2mentioning
confidence: 99%