Radial Velocities

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke1864l&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 1864. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Coordinates, Time, And Motion, Positional Concepts

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The radial velocity of a star is the component of its motion along the line of sight to the observer. A typical value for the radial velocity of a star in the solar neighborhood is 10-20 km s-1. The early work with radial velocities, dating back more than 100 yr, is reviewed in the first section of this article. Then the efforts over the past 25 yr to survey many thousands of stars with correl...

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