Gaia Data Release 2 - Properties and validation of the radial velocities

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Table 3

Median radial velocity residuals derived from the comparison of Gaia DR2 with stars from the ground-based catalogues brighter than = 9 mag.

Catalogue	Median	N_stars
	(km s⁻¹)
CU6GB	−0.017 −0.005/+0.005	3805
SIM	+0.264 −0.015/+0.014	640
RAVE	+0.282 −0.019/+0.019	3838
APOGEE	+0.024 −0.015/+0.017	1141
GES	−0.184 −0.418/+0.254	63

Notes. N_stars (Col. 3) is the number of stars selected to calculate the median residuals.

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