J/MNRAS/360/974 Proper motions of pulsars (Hobbs+, 2005)
A statistical study of 233 pulsar proper motions.
Hobbs G., Lorimer D.R., Lyne A.G., Kramer M.
<Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 360, 974-992 (2005)>
=2005MNRAS.360..974H 2005MNRAS.360..974H
ADC_Keywords: Pulsars ; Proper motions ; Parallaxes, trigonometric
Keywords: stars: kinematics - pulsars: general
Abstract:
We present and analyse a catalogue of 233 pulsars with proper motion
measurements. The sample contains a wide variety of pulsars including
recycled objects and those associated with globular clusters or
supernova remnants. After taking the most precise proper motions for
those pulsars for which multiple measurements are available, the
majority of the proper motions (58 per cent) are derived from pulsar
timing methods, 41% using interferometers and the remaining 1%
using optical telescopes.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table1.dat 85 233 Pulsar proper motions
table2.dat 84 169 Proper motions in Galactic coordinates
refs.dat 147 42 References
table3.dat 47 22 Pulsars with parallax measurements
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See also:
VII/189 : Catalog of Pulsars (Taylor+ 1995)
J/A+AS/136/571 : Pulsars identified from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (Han+ 1999)
J/AZh/71/762 : Radio luminosities of 232 pulsars (Malov+, 1994)
J/AZh/77/499 : Flux densities of 235 pulsars at 102.5MHz (Malofeev+, 2000)
J/MNRAS/273/411 : Multifrequency fluxes of 280 pulsars (Lorimer+ 1995)
J/MNRAS/328/17 : Parkes Multi-Beam Pulsar Survey (Manchester+, 2001)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 11 A11 --- PSR Pulsar designation
13- 20 F8.3 mas/yr pmRA ?=- Proper motion along RA (or Ecliptic)
22- 27 F6.3 mas/yr e_pmRA ? rms uncertainty on pmRA
29- 35 F7.3 mas/yr pmDE ?=- Proper motion along Dec (or Ecliptic)
37- 42 F6.3 mas/yr e_pmDE ? rms uncertainty on pmDE
44 A1 --- coo [CE] Proper motion in celestial (C) or
ecliptic (E) coordinates
46- 52 F7.3 mas/yr pmtot ?=- Total proper motion
54- 59 F6.3 mas/yr e_pmtot ? rms uncertainty on pmtot
61- 62 I2 ---- r_pmtot Reference for proper motion
63 A1 --- urpmtot [?] Uncertainty flag on r_pmtot
64 A1 --- OT [TIO] Observation type (1)
66 A1 --- l_Dist Limit flag on Dist
67- 71 F5.2 kpc Dist Distance (2)
73- 76 I4 km/s Vt ?=- Transverse velocity (2)
78- 81 I4 km/s DVt ?=- Difference between the velocities as
measured assuming the Cordes & Lazio
(0207156) and Taylor & Cordes
(1993ApJ...411..674T 1993ApJ...411..674T) distances
82- 85 A4 --- n_Vt [ind.] ind. when independent distance
estimates used
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Note (1): The proper motion was determined using interferometric (I),
timing (T) or optical (O).
Note (2): Distance according to the Cordes & Lazio (0207156) distance
model or from independent distance (ind.) estimates if available.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 11 A11 --- PSR PSR designation
14- 19 F6.2 deg GLON Galactic longitude
21- 26 F6.2 deg GLAT Galactic latitude
28- 35 F8.3 mas/yr pmGLON Proper motion along GLON
37- 42 F6.3 mas/yr e_pmGLON rms uncertainty on GLON
44- 51 F8.3 mas/yr pmGLAT Proper motion along GLAT
53- 58 F6.3 mas/yr e_pmGLAT rms uncertainty on GLAT
60- 64 F5.2 kpc Z Height above the Galactic plane
66- 72 F7.2 km/s VZ Velocity in Z direction, VZ=pmGLAT*D*cos(GLAT)
74- 78 F5.2 [yr] logtc ?=- Characteristic age
80- 84 F5.2 [10-4T] logBs ?=- Surface magnetic field strength
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 2 I2 --- Ref Reference number
4- 22 A19 --- BibCode BibCode
24- 41 A18 --- Aut Author's name
44-147 A104 --- Com Comments
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 11 A11 --- PSR PSR designation
13 A1 --- l_plx Limit flag on plx
14- 17 F4.2 mas plx Parallax
19- 21 F3.2 mas e_plx ? rms uncertainty on plx
24 A1 --- l_Dist Limit flag on Dist
25- 29 F5.3 kpc Dist Distance as measured from the parallax
31- 34 F4.3 kpc e_Dist ? rms uncertainty on Dist
37- 38 I2 --- r_plx Reference for plx
40 A1 --- l_Vt Limit flag on Vt
41- 43 I3 km/s Vt 2D speed of the pulsar assuming the proper motion
given in Table 1 and the distance determination
45- 47 I3 km/s e_Vt ? rms uncertainty on Vt
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
(End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 13-Mar-2006