Index of /ogle/ogle4/ROTATION_CURVE
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Rotation curve of the Milky Way from Classical Cepheids
P. Mroz, A. Udalski, D. M. Skowron, J. Skowron, I. Soszynski,
P. Pietrukowicz, M. K. Szymanski, R. Poleski, S. Kozlowski, K. Ulaczyk
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pmroz@astrouw.edu.pl
This directory contains:
README - this file
Cepheids.dat - distances, proper motions, and radial
velocities of Cepheids
rotation_curve.txt - Galactocentric distances and circular
velocities of Cepheids
fit_rotation_curve.py - code for modeling the rotation curve
construct_rotation_curve.py - code for constructing the rotation curve
based on distances, proper motions, and
radial velocities of Cepheids
Format of the file Cepheids.dat:
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 20 A20 --- Name Cepheid name
22 I1 --- flag 1 if used in the modeling, 0 otherwise
24- 35 F12.8 deg RA Right Ascension (J2000.0)
37- 48 F12.8 deg Decl Declination (J2000.0)
50- 61 F12.8 deg l Galactic longitude
63- 74 F12.8 deg b Galactic latitude
76- 81 F6.3 kpc dist Heliocentric distance
83- 88 F6.3 kpc e_dist Uncertainty of heliocentric distance
90- 97 F8.4 mas/yr pmra Proper motion in Right Ascension
99-105 F7.4 mas/yr e_pmra Uncertainty of pmra
107-114 F8.4 mas/yr pmdec Proper motion in Declination
116-122 F7.4 mas/yr e_pmdec Uncertainty of pmdec
124-130 F7.4 --- pm_corr Correlation coefficient between pmra and pmdec
132-139 F8.3 km/s vrad Heliocentric radial velocity
141-147 F7.3 km/s e_vrad Uncertainty of vrad
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Format of the file rotation_curve.txt:
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 20 A20 --- Name Cepheid name
22- 27 F6.3 kpc R Distance from the Galactic center
29- 33 F5.3 kpc e_R Uncertainty of R
35- 40 F6.2 km/s v_rot Circular velocity
42- 46 F5.2 km/s e_v_rot Uncertainty of v_rot
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