IAU Commission 30

Radial velocities

Keycodes for areas of radial-velocity research

1. Stellar radial velocities
- 1.1 early-type stars (earlier than F5)
- 1.2 late-type stars (F5 or later)
- 1.3 standard stars, including asteroids
- 1.4 spectroscopic binary stars
- 1.5 intrinsic variable stars
  - 1.5.1 pulsating variable stars
  - 1.5.2 asteroseismology, helioseismology
- 1.6 substellar-mass companions
- 1.7 highly precise radial velocities
- 1.8 stars in clusters
  - 1.8.1 open clusters
  - 1.8.2 globular clusters
- 1.9 kinematics and/or dynamics of stars in the Milky Way
  - 1.9.1 missing mass problems from stellar galactic dynamics
  - 1.9.2 stellar population studies
- 1.10 stars in satellite galaxies
  - 1.10.1 Magellanic Clouds
  - 1.10.2 other satellite galaxies
- 1.11 stellar radial velocity catalogues, bibliographies
2 Radial velocities of interstellar gas clouds
- 2.1 radio-line radial velocities
  - 2.1.1 21 cm velocities
  - 2.1.2 other radio lines
- 2.2 galactic rotation curve from 21-cm or CO
- 2.3 missing mass problems in Galaxy from radio radial velocities
- 2.4 optical radial velocities of interstellar clouds
  - 2.4.1 galactic rotation from optical cloud velocities
3 Radial velocities of extragalactic objects
- 3.1 radial velocities of galaxies
  - 3.1.1 radial velocities and cosmology
  - 3.1.2 radial velocities and Hubble's constant
  - 3.1.3 large scale mass flows in universe
- 3.2 galaxy rotation curves
  - 3.2.1 radio
  - 3.2.2 optical
- 3.3 radial velocities of quasars and active galactic nuclei
- 3.4 internal motions of clusters of galaxies
  - 3.4.1 galaxies in the Local Group
  - 3.4.2 virial studies of clusters and missing mass problems
- 3.5 stars and subsystems in galaxies
  - 3.5.1 supernovae
  - 3.5.2 cepheids
  - 3.5.3 clusters
- 3.6 galaxy radial velocity catalogues, bibliographies
4 Radial velocities in spectral regions other than optical or radio
- 4.1 ultraviolet
- 4.2 infrared
5 Instrumentation for radial-velocity determinations
- 5.1 optical instrumentation
  - 5.1.1 photographic
  - 5.1.2 CCD or other solid-state detector
  - 5.1.3 photoelectric (e.g. Coravel)
  - 5.1.4 echelle spectrographs
  - 5.1.5 fibre-feed spectrographs
  - 5.1.6 objective prisms
- 5.2 radio instrumentation
  - 5.2.1 21-cm instrumentation
  - 5.2.2 instrumentation for microwave molecular lines
- 5.3 instrumentation for other spectral regions
  - 5.3.1 ultraviolet instrumentation
  - 5.3.2 inrfrared instrumentation
6 Other
- 6.1 history of radial-velocity studies

Prof. John Hearnshaw

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