This is the second public data release of the RAdial Velocity Experiment, the first one is in Steinmetz, M., Zwitter, T., et al., Astronomical Journal (2006), 132, 4, 1645. RAVE is a survey measuring stellar radial velocities and physical properties using the UK Schmidt telescope in Australia, with its huge 6-degree field of view and a multiple object spectrograph. The paper presents the largest catalogue of stellar physical properties derived from spectroscopic observations so far. The first data release was noted also among the news in the journal Science (2006, vol. 311, p. 1221).
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Observation of stars in the Galactic disk can be strongly influenced by absorption in the interstellar dust located between the source and observer. Its distribution is largely unknown so we infer its presence by photometric reddening which is frequently hindered by large uncertainties. The paper shows that the intensity of spectroscopically measured diffuse interstellar band at 862 nm is strongly correlatied with reddening, so it enables to measure interstellar dust absorption along the line of sight.
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