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Title: | The Gaia-ESO Survey: Empirical determination of the precision of stellar radial velocities and projected rotation velocities | Authors: | Jackson, R. J. Jeffries, R. D. Lewis, J. Koposov, S. E. SACCO, GIUSEPPE GERMANO RANDICH, Maria Sofia Gilmore, G. Asplund, M. Binney, J. Bonifacio, P. Drew, J. E. Feltzing, S. Ferguson, A. M. N. MICELA, Giuseppina Neguerela, I. Prusti, T. Rix, H. -W. VALLENARI, Antonella Alfaro, E. J. Allende Prieto, C. Babusiaux, C. Bensby, T. Blomme, R. BRAGAGLIA, Angela FLACCOMIO, Ettore Francois, P. Hambly, N. Irwin, M. Korn, A. J. Lanzafame, Alessandro Carmelo PANCINO, ELENA Recio-Blanco, A. Smiljanic, R. Van Eck, S. Walton, N. Bayo, A. Bergemann, M. Carraro, G. Costado, M. T. DAMIANI, Francesco Edvardsson, B. FRANCIOSINI, Elena FRASCA, Antonio Heiter, U. Hill, V. Hourihane, A. Jofré, P. Lardo, C. de Laverny, P. Lind, K. MAGRINI, LAURA Marconi, G. Martayan, C. Masseron, T. Monaco, L. Morbidelli, L. PRISINZANO, Loredana Sbordone, L. Sousa, S. G. Worley, C. C. ZAGGIA, Simone |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Journal: | ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS | Number: | 580 | First Page: | A75 | Abstract: | Context. The Gaia-ESO Survey (GES) is a large public spectroscopic survey at the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope. <BR /> Aims: A key aim is to provide precise radial velocities (RVs) and projected equatorial velocities (vsini) for representative samples of Galactic stars, which will complement information obtained by the Gaia astrometry satellite. <BR /> Methods: We present an analysis to empirically quantify the size and distribution of uncertainties in RV and vsini using spectra from repeated exposures of the same stars. <BR /> Results: We show that the uncertainties vary as simple scaling functions of signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) and vsini, that the uncertainties become larger with increasing photospheric temperature, but that the dependence on stellar gravity, metallicity and age is weak. The underlying uncertainty distributions have extended tails that are better represented by Student's t-distributions than by normal distributions. <BR /> Conclusions: Parametrised results are provided, which enable estimates of the RV precision for almost all GES measurements, and estimates of the vsini precision for stars in young clusters, as a function of S/N, vsini and stellar temperature. The precision of individual high S/N GES RV measurements is 0.22-0.26 km s<SUP>-1</SUP>, dependent on instrumental configuration. <P />Based on observations collected with the FLAMES spectrograph at VLT/UT2 telescope (Paranal Observatory, ESO, Chile), for the Gaia- ESO Large Public Survey (188.B-3002).Full Table 2 is only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to <A href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr</A> (ftp://130.79.128.5) or via <A href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/580/A75">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/580/A75</A> | Acknowledgments: | R.J.J. wishes to thank the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council for financial support. Based on data products from observations made with ESO Telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory under programme ID 188.B-3002. These data products have been processed by the Cambridge Astronomy Survey Unit (CASU) at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, and by the FLAMES/UVES reduction team at INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri. These data have been obtained from the Gaia -ESO Survey Data Archive, prepared and hosted by the Wide Field Astronomy Unit, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, which is funded by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council. This work was partly supported by the European Union FP7 programme through ERC grant number 320360 and by the Leverhulme Trust through grant RPG-2012-541. We acknowledge the support from INAF and Ministero dell’ Istruzione, dell’ Università’ e della Ricerca (MIUR) in the form of the grant “Premiale VLT 2012”. The results presented here benefit from discussions held during the Gaia -ESO workshops and conferences supported by the ESF (European Science Foundation) through the GREAT Research Network Programme. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/23067 | URL: | https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2015/08/aa26248-15/aa26248-15.html | ISSN: | 0004-6361 | DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201526248 | Bibcode ADS: | 2015A&A...580A..75J | Fulltext: | open |
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