The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): Fifth Data Release
  Data Release 5 (DR5) of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is the fifth
data release from a magnitude-limited (9< I < 12) survey of stars randomly
selected in the southern hemisphere. The RAVE medium-resolution spectra
($R\sim7500$) covering the Ca-triplet region (8410-8795\AA) span the complete
time frame from the start of RAVE observations in 2003 to their completion in
2013. Radial velocities from 520,781 spectra of 457,588 unique stars are
presented, of which 255,922 stellar observations have parallaxes and proper
motions from the Tycho-Gaia astrometric solution (TGAS) in Gaia DR1. For our
main DR5 catalog, stellar parameters (effective temperature, surface gravity,
and overall metallicity) are computed using the RAVE DR4 stellar pipeline, but
calibrated using recent K2 Campaign 1 seismic gravities and Gaia benchmark
stars, as well as results obtained from high-resolution studies. Also included
are temperatures from the Infrared Flux Method, and we provide a catalogue of
red giant stars in the dereddened color $(J-Ks)_0$ interval (0.50,0.85) for
which the gravities were calibrated based only on seismology. Further data
products for sub-samples of the RAVE stars include individual abundances for
Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Ti, Fe, and Ni, and distances found using isochrones. Each RAVE
spectrum is complemented by an error spectrum, which has been used to determine
uncertainties on the parameters. The data can be accessed via the RAVE Web site
or the Vizier database.
