rotating reference frame Comparison Table

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rotating reference frame comparison table

Subject has acronym is a kind of has acceleration has rotation rate has definition

local standard of rest LSR rotating reference frame equal to one complete orbit of the Sun around the Milky Way A frame of reference in which the mean motion of stars in the immediate neighborhood is zero. In such a reference system, the motions of stars in the solar neighborhood (a volume of space about 100 pc in diameter) average out to zero (cf. solar motion). It is a coordinate system in which the origin is a point in the galactic plane moving in a circular orbit around the galactic center, and in which the three velocity components are Π, in the direction from the galactic center to the origin; θ, in the direction of galactic rotation; and Z, perpendicular to the galactic plane.

Subject	has acronym	is a kind of	has acceleration	has rotation rate	has definition
local standard of rest	LSR	rotating reference frame		equal to one complete orbit of the Sun around the Milky Way	A frame of reference in which the mean motion of stars in the immediate neighborhood is zero. In such a reference system, the motions of stars in the solar neighborhood (a volume of space about 100 pc in diameter) average out to zero (cf. solar motion). It is a coordinate system in which the origin is a point in the galactic plane moving in a circular orbit around the galactic center, and in which the three velocity components are Π, in the direction from the galactic center to the origin; θ, in the direction of galactic rotation; and Z, perpendicular to the galactic plane.

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