Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA) Overview
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Overview

The Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA) is a survey that consists of spectra for approximately 8,500 red giants in the Galactic bulge. As part of its goal to understand the formation of the Milky Way and its bulge, BRAVA samples radial velocities of the stars at a large scale along with photometry and titanium oxide (TiO) band strengths.

If you use BRAVA data, please cite the journal articles Rich et al. (2007) for kinematics of a field strip and Kunder et al. (2012) for the survey, as well as the dataset Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.26131/IRSA523.

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Data Set Characteristics

Data ProductDescriptionData Access
Spectra CTIO/Hydra
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