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American Astronomical Society, Astronomical Journal, 1(126), p. 247-254, 2003

DOI: 10.1086/375646

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Hubble Space TelescopeASTROMETRY OF M4 AND THE GALACTIC CONSTANTV0/R0

Journal article published in 2003 by Luigi R. Bedin ORCID, Giampaolo Piotto ORCID, Ivan R. King, Jay Anderson
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

From multiepoch WFPC2/HST observations we present astrometric measurements of stars in the Galactic globular cluster M4 (NGC 6121) and in the foreground and background. The presence of an extragalactic point source allows us to determine the absolute proper motion of the cluster and, through use of the field stars in this region only 18° from the Galactic center, to measure the difference between the Oort constants, A - B. We find (μα cos δ, μδ)J2000.0 = (-13.21 ± 0.35, -19.28 ± 0.35) mas yr-1, and A - B = V0/R0 = 27.6 ± 1.7 km s-1 kpc-1.