# Title: Clustering of Local Group distances: publication bias or
# correlated measurements? V. Galactic rotation constants
# Authors: Richard de Grijs, Giuseppe Bono
# Journal: ApJS, in press (arXiv:1709.02501)
# Table: theta0byyear.html
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# updated 16/01/2018
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MM YYYY Θ0 ± R0 References; notes
04 1927 272 0. 6 # Oort 1927, BAN, 3, 275 and BAN, 4, 79; Galactic field stars
00 1936 275 0. 10 # Plaskett & Pearce 1936, PAAS, 8, R19; O-B7 stars
07 1936 278 0. 10 # Bucerius 1936, AN, 259, 365; Galactic mass modeling
12 1938 195 43 9.83 # Camm 1938, MNRAS, 99, 71; PNe
09 1949 253 8 10 # Fricke 1949, AN, 277, 241; ~600 disk stars, R0 not explicitly mentioned
11 1949 276 21 10 # Fricke 1949, AN, 278, 49; 60 high-velocity stars in the solar neighborhood, R0 not explicitly mentioned
08 1965 250 0. 10 # IAU recommendation, based on Pecker 1964, Trans IAU, 12B, 315
12 1967 221 46 8.5 # Fricke 1967, AJ, 72, 1368; PMs of 512 bright stars, R0(A-B), FK4
12 1967 230 51 8.5 # Fricke 1967, AJ, 72, 1368; PMs of 512 bright stars, R0(A-B), N30
06 1972 254 0. 8 # Toomre 1972, QJRAS, 13, 241; HI, A = 15.9 km s-1 kpc-1
06 1972 198 10 8 # Toomre 1972, QJRAS, 13, 266; Magellanic Cloud orbits
00 1974 275 20 10 # Isobe 1974, A&A, 36, 327; 656 high-velocity stars from Eggen (1964)
07 1974 228 24 8.9 # Cruz-Gonzalez 1974, MNRAS, 168, 41; stars < 25 pc
08 1975 215 15 9 # Woltjer 1975, A&A, 42, 109; GC kinematics, 200-225 km s-1
00 1976 214 8 8.0 # Einasto et al. 1976, Stars and galaxies from observational points of view, p. 398; Galactic stellar populations
10 1977 294 42 10 # Lynden-Bell & Lin 1977, MNRAS, 181, 37; Solar motion w.r.t. Local Group galaxies, few constraints
10 1977 294 13 10 # Lynden-Bell & Lin 1977, MNRAS, 181, 37; +10-15 km s-1, more constraints
12 1978 220 15 8.5 # Knapp et al. 1978, AJ, 83, 1585; HI at disk edge, first and second quadrants
00 1979 212 0. 8.5 # Einasto et al. 1979, IAUS, 84, 231; halo GCs, R0 based on Einasto 1979
00 1979 230 0. 8.5 # Einasto et al. 1979, IAUS, 84, 231; disk population objects, R0 based on Einasto 1979
00 1979 225 0. 8.5 # Einasto et al. 1979, IAUS, 84, 231; Oort limiting velocity, R0 based on Einasto 1979
00 1979 217 10 8.5 # Einasto et al. 1979, IAUS, 84, 231; Galactic constants, R0: Einasto 1979
00 1979 220 7 8.5 # Einasto et al. 1979, IAUS, 84, 231; Galactic companions, R0 based on Einasto 1979
00 1979 221 5 8.5 # Einasto 1979, IAUS, 84, 451; best fit of Galactic constants, smoothed value
00 1979 220 10 8.5 # Einasto 1979, IAUS, 84, 451; best fit of Galactic constants, observed
08 1979 220 20 8.5 # Gunn et al. 1979, AJ, 84, 1181; HI data, nearly flat RC
02 1980 250 40 7 # Clube & Dawe 1980, MNRAS, 190, 591; 59 RR Lyrae
10 1980 215 15 9 # Frenk & White 1980, MNRAS, 193, 295; GCs, 200-225 km s-1
03 1981 184 9 8.5 # Shuter 1981, MNRAS, 194, 851; HI and CO, flat RC
12 1981 243 20 9.1 # Caldwell & Ostriker 1981, ApJ, 251, 61; Oort constants; OB stars, Cepheids, PNe, RR Lyrae, HII regions, OCs, RSGs
12 1981 212 16 8.5 # Lynden-Bell & Frenk 1981, Obs, 101, 200; GC kinematics, R0 not explicitly mentioned; not scalable by R0
00 1983 181 0. 8.5 # McCutcheon et al. 1983, ASSL, 100, 165; R0 not explicitly mentioned, CO in the southern MW, not scalable by R0?
00 1983 238 10 8.5 # Ostriker & Caldwell 1983, ASSL, 100, 249; Galactic mass modeling, Oort constants
06 1984 212 19 8.5 # Pier 1984, ApJ, 281, 260; 202 metal-poor halo field AB stars, lower limit
00 1985 220 0. 8.5 # Jackson 1985, IAUS, 106, 179; HI at northern disk edge, R0 not explicitly mentioned
00 1985 250 0. 8.5 # Jackson 1985, IAUS, 106, 179; HI at southern disk edge, R0 not explicitly mentioned
00 1985 184 0. 8.5 # Rohlfs 1985, cited as "priv. commun." in Kerr & Lynden-Bell 1986
08 1985 252 2 10 # Clemens 1985, ApJ, 295, 422; CO + HI, HII regions, GCs, 2AR0
11 1985 220 0. 8.5 # IAU recommendation; Kerr & Lynden-Bell 1986; review of the available literature
04 1986 185 12 7.9 # Rohlfs et al. 1986, A&A, 158, 181; HII regions
08 1986 222 20 8.5 # Kerr & Lynden-Bell 1986, MNRAS, 221, 1023; literature review
05 1987 228 19 7.8 # Caldwell & Coulson 1987, AJ, 93, 1090; Cepheids, Oort constants
08 1987 214 31 8.5 # Hanson 1987, AJ, 94, 409; faint disk stars R0(A-B)
09 1987 235 10 8.5 # Carlberg & Innanen 1987, AJ, 94, 666; small sample of high-velocity-dispersion disk stars
00 1988 248 16 8.5 # Schechter et al. 1988, LNP, 306, 31; 268 carbon stars in the southern MW; 2AR0, R0 not explicitly mentioned but consistent with 8.5 kpc
00 1988 228 19 8.28 # Caldwell & Coulson 1988, LNP, 306, 68; 2AR0, Cepheids PLC
00 1988 238 20 7.66 # Caldwell & Coulson 1988, LNP, 306, 68; 2AR0, Cepheids PLR(V)
00 1988 218 18 7.58 # Caldwell & Coulson 1988, LNP, 306, 68; 2AR0, Cepheids PLR(I)
00 1988 228 18 7.83 # Caldwell & Coulson 1988, LNP, 306, 68; 2AR0, average
03 1988 180 6 8.5 # Robinson et al. 1988, A&A, 193, 60; CO, southern hemisphere, 2AR0
10 1988 272 26 8.5 # Dubath et al. 1988, A&A, 205, 77; 2AR0, late-type supergiants
01 1990 209 2 8.5 # Alvarez et al. 1990, ApJ, 348, 495; CO, flat RC; R0 unclear but not scalable
05 1992 210 25 7.9 # Merrifield 1992, AJ, 103, 1552; HI, based on Kerr & Lynden-Bell 1986
05 1992 180 20 7.9 # Merrifield 1992, AJ, 103, 1552; HI, rotation curves of external galaxies
05 1992 200 10 7.9 # Merrifield 1992, AJ, 103, 1552; HI, compromise, also Merrifield 1992, AIPC, 278, 437
00 1992 248 16 8.5 # Caldwell et al. 1992, ASPC, 30, 111; average result, Cepheids, Oort constants
00 1993 227 23 8.5 # Schechter 1993, AIPC, 278, 571 (published in 1992!); 651 carbon stars includes solar peculiar motion
01 1994 200 30 8 # Kuijken & Tremaine 1994, ApJ, 421, 178; model analysis, 180-200 km s-1; OH/IR stars, GCs, high-velocity stars, PNe. not including CO because of asymmetries
05 1994 257 7 8.09 # Pont et al. 1994, A&A, 285, 415; 107 classical Cepheids, 2AR0; see also IAUS, 169, 661 (1996); Msngr, 76, 45 (1994)
01 1996 220 22 8.5 # Kochanek 1996, ApJ, 457, 228; Galactic satellites, based on Fich, Blitz & Stark (1989); Fich & Tremaine (1991)
01 1996 220 30 8.5 # Kochanek 1996, ApJ, 457, 228; Galactic satellites, assuming Leo I is bound
10 1996 223 14 8.5 # Frink et al. 1996, A&A, 314, 430; 197 OB stars (HII regions), 144 CCs, Oort constants
12 1996 201 0. 7.6 # Honma & Sofue 1996, PASJ, 48, L103; HI, for A-B = 26.4 km s-1 kpc-1
12 1996 192 0. 7.6 # Honma & Sofue 1996, PASJ, 48, L103; HI, for flat RC within 2R0
07 1997 210 25 8 # Sackett 1997, ApJ, 483, 103; HI, literature
07 1997 236 13 8.0 # Sackett 1997, ApJ, 483, 103, based on Backer 1996, IAUS, 169, 193; Sgr A* kinematics
08 1997 196 6. 7.6 # Honma & Sofue 1997, PASJ, 49, 453; HI, CO, PNe
11 1997 231 15 8.5 # Feast & Whitelock 1997, MNRAS, 291, 683; 220 Cepheids (Hipparcos), Oort constants
02 1998 237 12 7.66 # Metzger et al. 1998, AJ, 115, 635; Cepheids
04 1998 268.7 11.9 8.5 # Miyamoto & Zhu 1998, AJ, 115, 1483; 1352 O-B5 stars (Hipparcos)
04 1998 243.3 12.0 8.5 # Miyamoto & Zhu 1998, AJ, 115, 1483; 170 Cepheids (Hipparcos)
07 1998 184 8 7.1 # Olling & Merrifield 1998, MNRAS, 297, 943; HI
08 1998 256 10 8.51 # Feast et al. 1998, MNRAS, 298, L43; 266 Cepheids with radial velocities/214 Cepheids with Hipparcos proper motions, 2AR0
08 1998 232 18 8.51 # Feast et al. 1998, MNRAS, 298, L43; R0(A-B), different sample
00 1999 277 3 7.4 # Glushkova et al. 1999, A&AT, 18, 349; 770 Pop I objects with good distances: 20 young OCs (log t yr-1 < 8.1), 440 CCs, 128 RSGs, 2AR0
00 1999 204 15 7.4 # Glushkova et al. 1999, A&AT, 18, 349; 770 Pop I objects with good distances: 20 young OCs (log t yr-1 < 8.1), 440 CCs, 128 RSGs, Θ0
10 1999 226 44 8.5 # Méndez et al. 1999, ApJ, 524, L39; 30,000 Southern PM program stars toward the Galactic pole; based on reanalysis of Kerr & Lynden-Bell 1986
10 1999 270 0. 8.5 # Méndez et al. 1999, ApJ, 524, L39; better fit
10 1999 219 20 8.0 # Reid et al. 1999, ApJ, 524, 816; Sgr A* motion
00 2000 216.5 24 8.2 # Nikiforov 2000, ASPC, 209, 403; HI vs CO
02 2000 255.5 8.3 8.5 # Uemura et al. 2000, PASJ, 52, 143; 240 O-B5 stars (Hipparcos)
12 2000 268.7 11.9 8.5 # Zhu 2000, PASJ, 52, 1133; O-B5 stars (Hipparcos)
12 2000 252.1 10.1 8.5 # Zhu 2000, PASJ, 52, 1133; K, M giants (Hipparcos)
12 2000 240.0 12.1 8.5 # Zhu 2000, PASJ, 52, 1133; Cepheids (Hipparcos)
12 2000 240.5 10.2 8.5 # Zhu 2000, PASJ, 52, 1133; Cepheids (Hipparcos)
05 2002 258.7 34.3 8.5 # Branham 2002, ApJ, 570, 190; 1817 O-B5 stars (most Hipparcos)
12 2002 225.4 21 8.0 # Luna et al. 2002, ASPC, 275, 131; CO, HII regions, R0(A-B)
07 2003 220.8 13.6 8.0 # Bedin et al. 2003, AJ, 126, 247; PMs of field stars in the bulge near the GC M4, Oort constants; see also Mem. Soc. Astron. It., 74, 436 (2003)
12 2003 224 16 8.0 # Olling & Dehnen 2003, ApJ, 599, 275; 106 ACT/Tycho-2 stars with kinematic data, R0(A-B)
01 2004 202.7 24.7 8.0 # Kalirai et al. 2004, ApJ, 601, 277; PMs of field stars in the bulge near the GC M4, Oort constants
02 2004 245.9 13.5 8 # Sirko et al. 2004, AJ, 127, 914; halo blue HB stars
12 2004 236 15 8.0 # Reid & Brunthaler 2004, ApJ, 616, 872; Sgr A* motion
12 2004 229 15 8.0 # Reid & Brunthaler 2004, ApJ, 616, 872; Sgr A* motion, vpec,v = 12 km s-1
08 2005 214 8 8.27 # Frinchaboy et al. 2005, in: "Island Universes: Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies", ed. R. de Jong (Springer: Dordrecht), arXiv:astro-ph/0508666; +6-9 km s-1, more than 50 OCs in the 3rd and 4th Galactic quadrants, not scalable
06 2005 202 4 8 # Avedisova 2005, ARep, 49, 435; 270 star-forming regions
12 2005 241 15 8.0 # Reid & Brunthaler 2005, ASPC, 340, 253; Sgr A* motion
04 2006 215 5 7.8 # Orlov et al. 2006, A&AT, 25, 161; solar neighborhood stars (details no longer available)
09 2006 272 0. 8.5 # Elias et al. 2006, AJ, 132, 1052; 1156 O-B6 stars in the solar neighborhood (Hipparcos)
02 2007 244 13 8.25 # Shen & Zhu 2007, ChJA&A, 7, 120; O-B5 stars (Hipparcos)
02 2007 261 15 7.95 # Shen & Zhu 2007, ChJA&A, 7, 120; open clusters
09 2008 202 20 8.0 # Xue et al. 2008, ApJ, 684, 1143; 2400 blue HB halo stars (SDSS), 2 different cosmological simulations
09 2008 215 20 8.0 # Xue et al. 2008, ApJ, 684, 1143; 2400 blue HB halo stars (SDSS), 2 different cosmological simulations
12 2008 229 18 8.4 # Ghez et al. 2008, ApJ, 689, 1044; Sgr A* motion
12 2008 243.6 9.4 8.0 # Yuan et al. 2008, ChJA&A, 8, 714; O-B5 stars, Oort constants
12 2008 243.5 13.0 8.0 # Yuan et al. 2008, ChJA&A, 8, 714; K, M giants, Oort constants
03 2009 236 0. 8 # Reid et al. 2009, ApJ, 693, 397; 2 masers
07 2009 254 16 8.4 # Reid et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 137; 18 masers
07 2009 247 12 8.4 # Reid et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 137; Sgr A* motion
07 2009 250 10 8.4 # Reid et al. 2009, ApJ, 700, 137; combination of masers and Sgr A* motion
10 2009 244 13 8.2 # Bovy et al. 2009, ApJ, 704, 1704; masers + Sgr A*
10 2009 236 11 8.2 # Bovy et al. 2009, ApJ, 704, 1704; masers, Sgr A*, GD-1 stellar stream
12 2009 235 10 8.03 # Zhu 2009, RAA, 9, 1285; OCs
01 2010 239 12 7.98 # Shen & Zhang 2010, ChA&A, 34, 89; 215 Cepheids with complete radial velocity and photometric data (Hipparcos), combined with PLR
02 2010 200 20 6.7 # McMillan & Binney 2010, MNRAS, 402, 934; 18 masers, lower limit
02 2010 279 33 8.9 # McMillan & Binney 2010, MNRAS, 402, 934; 18 masers, upper limit
03 2010 224 13 8.5 # Koposov et al. 2010, ApJ, 712, 260; +12-14 km s-1; GD-1 stream: orbital fit
03 2010 221 18 8.5 # Koposov et al. 2010, ApJ, 712, 260; +16-20 km s-1; no priors
09 2010 240 20 8.3 # Sato et al. 2010, ApJ, 720, 1055; W51 maser parallax
11 2010 248 14 8 # Bobylev & Bajkova 2010, MNRAS, 408, 1788; 28 masers
12 2010 255 0. 8.4 # Foster & Cooper 2010, ASPC, 438, 16; HII regions
02 2011 213 5 7.80 # Ando et al. 2011, PASJ, 63, 45; masers in the ON 2N star-forming region (solar circle)
03 2011 226.87 0. 8 # Sharma et al. 2011, ApJ, 730, 3; Galactic mass modeling
04 2011 243 16 8 # Stepanishchev & Bobylev 2011, AstL, 37, 254; 28 masers
06 2011 239 7 8.3 # Brunthaler et al. 2011, AN, 332, 461; 18 Galactic masers - parallaxes, stellar orbits, Sgr A* PM
06 2011 246 7 8.3 # Brunthaler et al. 2011, AN, 332, 461; old solar motion: DISCARD
07 2011 239 5 8.29 # McMillan 2011, MNRAS, 414, 2446; Galactic mass modeling
08 2011 213 10 7.80 # Sofue et al. 2011, PASJ, 63, 867; near-solar-circle objects from the literature (HII regions, masers)
09 2012 230 14 8.0 # Bajkova & Bobylev 2012, AstL, 38, 549; 44 masers
11 2012 242 6 8.1 # Bovy et al. 2012, ApJ, 759, 131; +10-3 km s-1; 3365 stars from APOGEE, primarily RGs
11 2012 218 6 8.1 # Bovy et al. 2012, ApJ, 759, 131; 3365 stars from APOGEE, primarily RGs
11 2012 248 6 8.2 # Schönrich 2012, MNRAS, 427, 274; FGKM dwarf stars + MS stars, SEGUE (SDSS), mostly within a few kpc from the Sun; also constraints from Sgr A*
11 2012 250 9 8.27 # Schönrich 2012, MNRAS, 427, 274; same
12 2012 238 14 8.05 # Honma et al. 2012, PASJ, 64, 136; full range 223-248 km s-1, VERA, 52 masers
02 2013 243 7 8.38 # Reid 2013, IAUS, 289, 188; masers
02 2013 267 17 7.66 # Bobylev 2013, AstL, 39, 95; near-solar-circle objects: SF regions, Cepheids; 14 Cepheids with Hipparcos PMs
02 2013 217 11 7.64 # Bobylev 2013, AstL, 39, 95; near-solar-circle objects: SF regions, Cepheids; 18 Cepheids with UCAC4 PMs
02 2013 239 12 7.98 # Zhu & Shen 2013, IAUS, 289, 444; Classical Cepheids
02 2013 244 13 8.25 # Zhu & Shen 2013, IAUS, 289, 444; O-B5 stars (Hipparcos)
02 2013 260 15 8.03 # Zhu & Shen 2013, IAUS, 289, 444; open clusters
04 2013 206.5 20 8.0 # Bhattacharjee et al. 2013, PhRvD, 87, 083525; disk objects from Sofue (2012)
09 2013 229.4 0. 8 # Golubov et al. 2013, A&A, 557, A92; RAVE dwarf stars
10 2013 238 14 8.05 # Honma 2013, ASPC, 476, 81; masers
12 2013 218 10 8 # Bovy & Rix 2013, ApJ, 779, 115; 16,269 G-type dwarfs, SEGUE
01 2014 218 6 8.1 # Bovy, 2014, IAUS, 298, 185; [R0 from Bovy et al. 2012, ApJ, 759, 131]; intermediate-age and old disk stars, APOGEE: mostly RGs
03 2014 240 8 8.34 # Reid et al. 2014, ApJ, 783, 130; more than 100 masers
09 2014 232 1.7 8.0 # Sharma et al. 2014, ApJ, 793, 51; RAVE/GCS data: giants and dwarfs
09 2014 298 7 8.15 # Branham 2014, Ap&SS, 353, 179; OB stars (Hipparcos)
09 2014 299 0. 8.0 # Branham 2014, Ap&SS, 353, 179; based on the Oort constants and a linear model
09 2014 203 12 6.72 # Branham 2014, Ap&SS, 353, 179; based on OB stars and a nonlinear model
08 2015 238 14 8.0 # Honma et al. 2015, PASJ, 67, 70; masers
09 2015 234 14 8.0 # Bobylev & Bajkova 2015, AstL, 41, 473; 120 spectroscopic OB binaries
09 2015 237 15 8.0 # Bobylev & Bajkova 2015, AstL, 41, 473; O stars from Patriarchi et al. (2003)
09 2015 230 15 8.0 # Bobylev & Bajkova 2015, AstL, 41, 473; 168 OB3 stars with distances from interstellar Ca lines
09 2015 250 15 8.0 # Bobylev & Bajkova 2015, AstL, 41, 473; same sample, distances reduced by 20%
09 2015 255 16 8.0 # Bobylev & Bajkova 2015, AstL, 41, 473; smaller sample of 58 spectroscopic binaries
09 2015 252 14 8.0 # Bobylev & Bajkova 2015, AstL, 41, 473; Ca distance scale
11 2015 198 3 10 # Williams & Evans 2015, MNRAS, 454, 698; RC evaluated at 10 kpc, halo blue HB stars (SDSS)
12 2015 236 0. 8 # Aumer & Schönrich 2015, MNRAS, 454, 3166; young MW bar stars, APOGEE
09 2016 238 15 8.2 # Bland-Hawthorn & Gerhard 2016, ARA&A, 54, 529; different inner disk tracers, incl. masers, Sgr A*
11 2016 220 0. 8.34 # Reid & Dame 2016, ApJ, 832, 159; HI, masers: reanalysis of curved RC
12 2016 240 6 8.34 # Huang et al. 2016, MNRAS, 463, 2623; 16,000 RC stars in the outer disk + 5700 halo K giants
01 2017 226 0. 8.5 # Martínez-Barbosa et al. 2017, MNRAS, 464, 2290; Galactic mass modeling
02 2017 250 0. 8.2 # Portail et al. 2017, MNRAS, 465, 1621; RC stars