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Oort Constants

Oort Constants is a pair of derived parameters in galactic kinematics that quantify the local rotational properties of the Milky Way, specifically characterizing the shear and vorticity of the galactic rotation field in the solar neighborhood.

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A modification of the Newtonian dynamics - Implications for galaxies

Mordehai Milgrom · The Astrophysical Journal · 1983 · 1.1K citations

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Galactic kinematics of Cepheids from Hipparcos proper motions

M. W. Feast, P. A. Whitelock · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1997 · 323 citations · Full text

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Refining the Oort and Galactic constants

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1998 · 128 citations · Full text

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Galactic rotation in <i>Gaia</i> DR1

Jo Bovy · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters · 2017 · 125 citations · Full text

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Detection of a radial velocity gradient in the extended local disc with RAVE

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2011 · 107 citations · Full text

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  1. RL
    Richard L. Branham

    Instituto de Química del Noroeste Argentino, Argentina

    3 publications · 38 citations

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  2. MW
    M. W. Feast

    South African Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa

    3 publications · 394 citations

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  3. DF
    D. Fernández

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    2 publications · 137 citations

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  4. JB
    Jo Bovy

    University of Toronto, Canada

    2 publications · 140 citations

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  5. VV
    V. V. Vityazev

    St Petersburg University, Russia

    2 publications · 38 citations

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  1. Institute of Astronomy

    Moscow, Russia

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    208 citations

  2. Instituto de Química del Noroeste Argentino

    San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    38 citations

  3. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    272 citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    244 citations

  5. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    183 citations

  6. United States Naval Observatory

    Flagstaff, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    113 citations

  7. National Astronomical Observatories

    Beijing, China

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    115 citations

  8. University of Ljubljana

    Ljubljana, Slovenia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    183 citations

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  2. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 10 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 5 publications · 262 citations

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  4. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 2 publications · 31 citations

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