The files gl_2012_J2000.cat1 and bulge_J2000.cat1 include positions, absolute proper motions, velocities for globular clusters. For references for each cluster and other details, see references.2012 file. Explanation of the format: col bytes format name unit description --------------------------------------------------- 1 001-004 I4 ID - NGC number, or Pal # 2 005-008 A4 refpm - proper-motion ref: av - average of two or more determinations, * - Paper I, II and IV (only photographic plate material, cc - Paper V,VI, VII (photographic + ccd data), Od - O97, CH - CH93, KC - Cudworth unpublished, Di - Dinescu et al. 2000, 2002, Si - Siegel et al. 3 009-016 F8.3 RA deg Right ascension J2000 4 017-024 F8.3 Dec. deg Declination J2000 5 025-032 F8.3 l deg Galactic longitude 6 033-040 F8.3 b deg Galactic longitude 7 041-046 F6.1 dist kpc distance from the Sun 8 047-051 F5.1 edist kpc error in the distance from the Sun 9 052-059 F8.3 pma mas/yr abs. proper motion in RA (mu_alpha*cos(Dec)) 10 060-064 F5.3 epma mas/yr error in pma 11 065-071 F8.3 pmd mas/yr abs. proper motion in Dec. 12 072-076 F5.3 epmd mas/yr error in pmd 13 077-083 F7.2 Vr km/s heliocentric radial velocity 14 084-089 F6.2 eVr km/s error in Vr 15 090-094 A5 Ref - radial velocity source: (H) - Harris 2010 update, other (see references file) 16 095-100 F6.2 [Fe/H] dex metallicity (Harris 2010) 17 101-106 F6.1 X kpc X coordinate where the Sun is at X=8.0 kpc 18 107-112 F6.1 Y kpc Y coordinate where the Sun is at Y=0.0 kpc (positive toward Galactic rotation) 19 113-118 F6.1 Z kpc Z coordinate where the Sun is at Z=0.0 kpc (positive toward North Galactic pole) 20 119-124 F6.1 R_GC kpc R_GC = sqrt(X**2+Y**2) 21 125-131 F7.1 U km/s U velocity wrt LSR (positive outward from the Galactic center) 22 132-137 F6.1 eU km/s error U 23 138-144 F7.1 V km/s V velocity wrt LSR (positive toward Galactic rotation) 24 145-150 F6.1 eV km/s error V 25 151-157 F7.1 W km/s W velocity wrt LSR (positive toward North Galactic pole) 26 158-163 F6.1 eW km/s error W 27 164-170 F7.1 Pi km/s Pi velocity wrt Galactic rest frame - along the radial direction from Gal. center to the location of the cluster and in the Galactic plane (positive outward from Gal. center). 28 171-176 F6.1 ePi km/s error Pi 29 177-183 F7.1 Theta km/s Theta velocity wrt Galactic rest frame - perpendicular to Pi (positive toward Galactic rotation) 30 184-189 F6.1 eTheta km/s error Theta