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GALAH

The Galactic Archaeology with HERMES survey is collecting stellar parameters and abundances for one million stars in the Milky Way. GALAH yields a comprehensive view of the formation & evolution of the Galaxy.
May 5, 2018 by S. Sharma
Oct. 11, 2020, 3:50 a.m. J. Simpson

Changelog

DR2

Data Release 2.1 (2018-05-09)

New Features

The gaia_dr2_id column has now been populated with Gaia DR2 source_id. As the input catalogue for GALAH DR2 is 2MASS, for cross matching we have used the tmass_best_neighbour table created by Gaia.

Bug Fixes

There was a bug related to how the gravitational redshift correction that was applied to the rv_obst, e_rv_obst, e_rv_nogr_obst columns. The size of the effect is between –0.7 km/s and 0.1 km/s for rv_obst. Note that this bug did not affect the rv_nogr_obst columns. See the Table Schema for a description of these columns.

Size of bug in rv_obst in GALAH DR2.0

Median spectra

In the process of calculating the data-based radial velocities (rv_obst in the DR2 table), we have produced median spectra for well-populated regions of the effective temperature - surface gravity - metallicity parameter space. These are fully described in Zwitter et al. 2018, and can be directly downloaded.

Data Release 2.0 (2018-04-18)

GALAH DR2 contains stellar parameters and abundances for 342682 stars observed as part of the main GALAH survey between 2014 January 16 and 2018 January 29. A full description of its contents can be found on the What's in GALAH DR2? page.

May 5, 2018 by S. Sharma
Oct. 11, 2020, 3:50 a.m. J. Simpson