Radial velocities from Gaia BP/RP spectra Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Verberne S.
  2. Koposov S.E.
  3. Rossi E.M.
  4. Marchetti T.
  5. Kuijken K.
  6. Penoyre Z.
  7. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The Gaia mission has provided us full astrometric solutions for over 1.5B sources. However, only the brightest 34M of those have radial velocity measurements. As a proof of concept, this paper aims to close that gap, by obtaining radial velocity estimates from the low- resolution BP/RP spectra that Gaia now provides. These spectra are currently published for about 220M sources, with this number increasing to the full ~2B Gaia sources with Gaia Data Release 4. To obtain the radial velocity measurements, we fit Gaia BP/RP spectra with models based on a grid of synthetic spectra, with which we obtain the posterior probability on the radial velocity for each object. Our measured velocities show systematic biases that depend mainly on colours and magnitudes of stars. We correct for these effects by using external catalogues of radial velocity measurements. We present in this work a catalogue of about 6.4M sources with our most reliable radial velocity measurements and uncertainties <300 km s^-1 obtained from the BP/RP spectra. About 23% of these have no previous radial velocity measurement in Gaia RVS. Furthermore, we provide an extended catalogue containing all 125M sources for which we were able to obtain radial velocity measurements. The latter catalogue, however, also contains a fraction of measurements for which the reported radial velocities and uncertainties are inaccurate. Although typical uncertainties in the catalogue are significantly higher compared to those obtained with precision spectroscopy instruments, the number of potential sources for which this method can be applied is orders of magnitude higher than any previous radial velocity catalogue. Further development of the analysis could therefore prove extremely valuable in our understanding of Galactic dynamics.

Keywords
  1. high-velocity-stars
  2. radial-velocity
  3. visible-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2024A&A...684A..29V
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36840029

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History

2024-04-03T07:54:02Z
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2024-04-03T07:54:02Z
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2024-09-11T20:02:59Z
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