Math behind converting kinematic radial velocities of clouds to

PrisNo6 wrote:
I am interested in studying how to convert radial velocity data on
hydrogen, CO and molecular clouds in the Milky Way into galactic x-y
spatial maps. I have a general understanding of Oort constants. Would
someone please post some article or book references that I can use as
a study starting point? Thanks - Kurt

Any decent galactic dynamics book will cover this. A good one to start
with would be _Galactic Astronomy_ by Binney & Merrifield.
(ISBN 0-691-02565-7, Princeton University Press.)

- Marshall

PrisNo6 wrote:
I am interested in studying how to convert radial velocity data on
hydrogen, CO and molecular clouds in the Milky Way into galactic x-y
spatial maps. I have a general understanding of Oort constants. Would
someone please post some article or book references that I can use as
a study starting point? Thanks - Kurt

Any decent galactic dynamics book will cover this. A good one to start
with would be _Galactic Astronomy_ by Binney & Merrifield.
(ISBN 0-691-02565-7, Princeton University Press.)

- Marshall

(PrisNo6) wrote in message ...
I am interested in studying how to convert radial velocity data on
hydrogen, CO and molecular clouds in the Milky Way into galactic x-y
spatial maps. I have a general understanding of Oort constants. Would
someone please post some article or book references that I can use as
a study starting point? Thanks - Kurt

See Eqn(8) in my Astro 140 notes (pages 6-10 are relevant),
reachable via http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm

Try to do Problem 4 in PS#2 at
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/class/03...ework/ps2.html

--Edward L. (Ned) Wright, UCLA Professor of Physics and Astronomy

(PrisNo6) wrote in message ...
I am interested in studying how to convert radial velocity data on
hydrogen, CO and molecular clouds in the Milky Way into galactic x-y
spatial maps. I have a general understanding of Oort constants. Would
someone please post some article or book references that I can use as
a study starting point? Thanks - Kurt

See Eqn(8) in my Astro 140 notes (pages 6-10 are relevant),
reachable via http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm

Try to do Problem 4 in PS#2 at
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/class/03...ework/ps2.html

--Edward L. (Ned) Wright, UCLA Professor of Physics and Astronomy

(Ned Wright) wrote in message ...

Thanks Prof. Wright, that was right on the money. - Kurt

See Eqn(8) in my Astro 140 notes (pages 6-10 are relevant),
reachable via http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm

Try to do Problem 4 in PS#2 at
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/class/03...ework/ps2.html

--Edward L. (Ned) Wright, UCLA Professor of Physics and Astronomy

(Ned Wright) wrote in message ...

Thanks Prof. Wright, that was right on the money. - Kurt

See Eqn(8) in my Astro 140 notes (pages 6-10 are relevant),
reachable via http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/cosmolog.htm

Try to do Problem 4 in PS#2 at
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/class/03...ework/ps2.html

--Edward L. (Ned) Wright, UCLA Professor of Physics and Astronomy