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Solar Motion And Galactic Rotation: Results From The Lick Northern Proper Motion Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Robert B. Hanson
Robert B. Hanson*
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, U.S.A.

Abstract

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This paper reports the first results of solar motion and galactic rotation studies which are being done at Lick Observatory, using the new data from the Lick Northern Proper Motion (NPM) Program. This study finds: (1) A = +11.31 ± 1.06 and B = −13.91 ± 0.92 km/s/kpc, consistent with a nearly flat galactic rotation curve with a local circular velocity near 200 km/s; (2) solar apex locations lying near the standard apex for low galactic latitudes, but trending strongly toward the direction of galactic rotation for high galactic latitudes; (3) RMS external error estimates for the Lick proper motions: for the absolute zero-point in a typical NPM field, and for the overall systematic zero-point error. A more detailed presentation of these results has been given by Hanson (1987). The NPM program is reviewed in another paper in this Symposium, and has been described in detail by Klemola, Jones, and Hanson (1987).

Type
Part II: Current Research
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 133: Mapping the Sky: Past Heritage and Future Directions , 1988 , pp. 427 - 432
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1988 

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