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On the Galactic aberration constant

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2014-12-30 v1

Abstract

In this work, we analyzed all available determinations of the Galactic rotation parameters R0R_0 and Ω0\Omega_0 made during last 10 years to derive the most probable value of the Galactic aberration constant A=R0Ω02/cA = R_0 \Omega_0^2/c. We used several statistical methods to obtain reliable estimates of R0R_0 and Ω0\Omega_0 and their realistic errors. In result, we have obtained the value of A=5.0±0.3A = 5.0 \pm 0.3 μ\muas/yr as the current best estimate of the GA constant. We suggest that the proposed value of the GA constant can be safely used in practice during coming years.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1309.5298,
  title  = {On the Galactic aberration constant},
  author = {Z. Malkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.5298},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

Presented at the Journees 2013 "Systemes de reference spatio-temporels", Paris, France, 16-18 September 2013

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