This directory contains the optical rotation curves obtained for my
thesis work.  The data were taken at the Palomar 5m and the CTIO 4m
telescopes.  This was a true team effort, with the following folks
playing important roles: R. Giovanelli, M.P. Haynes, L. Campusano,
and E. Hardy.  J. Uson collaborated on follow-up studies of 
higher-z clusters.

The rotation curves are mostly from the H-alpha transition; the
files using H-alpha are in the format *.HA.  Supplemental files from
[N II] transitions are formatted *.N2A and *.N2B.  I sometimes used
the [N II] data to bridge gaps in the H-alpha data.

The gzipped tar file contains all the rotation curve files.
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FORMAT:
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Lines 3 through Npts provide
-radius in arcseconds
-cz in km/s
-uncertainty in cz in kms/

The first line in each file gives the AGC name of the galaxy.
The important information in the second line are the first few
entries.  For example, the first line for A000847.HA,
"Dale Ph.D. thesis        HA AS  67" implies:
-the data come from my thesis work
-the data are from the H-alpha transition
-the radial data are given in units of arcseconds
-there are 67 data points in the file
The Palomar and CTIO data are radially spaced by 0.468 and 0.50
arcseconds, respectively.

These data are not folded, and typically a radius of 0" implies
the optical continuum center-of-light location.  Note that substantial 
care went into the technique of folding the "arms" of the rotation
curve onto each other.  Please read the below literature and contact 
me if you have any questions.
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The relevant publications are:

D. Dale, R. Giovanelli, M. Haynes, M. Scodeggio, E. Hardy & L. Campusano 1997, AJ, 114, 455
"Seeking the Local Convergence Depth. I. Tully-Fisher Observations of the Clusters A168, A397, A569, A1139, A1228 and A1983"

D. Dale, R. Giovanelli, M. Haynes, M. Scodeggio, E. Hardy & L. Campusano 1998, AJ, 115, 418
"Seeking the Local Convergence Depth. II. Tully-Fisher Observations of the Clusters A114, A119, A194, A2295, A2457, A2806, A3193, A3381 and A3744"

D. Dale, R. Giovanelli, M. Haynes, L. Campusano & E. Hardy 1999, ApJ Letters, 510, L11
"Seeking the Local Convergence Depth. The Abell Cluster Dipole Flow to 200 Mpc"
 
D. Dale, R. Giovanelli, M. Haynes, E. Hardy & L. Campusano 1999, AJ, 118, 1489
"Seeking the Local Convergence Depth. IV. Tully-Fisher Observations of 35 Abell Clusters" 

D. Dale, R. Giovanelli, M. Haynes, L. Campusano & E. Hardy 1999,  AJ, 118, 1468
"Seeking the Local Convergence Depth. V. Tully-Fisher Peculiar Velocities for 52 Abell Clusters"

R. Giovanelli, D. Dale, M. Haynes, E. Hardy & L. Campusano 1999, ApJ, 525, 25
"No Hubble Bubble in the Local Universe" 

D. Dale & J. Uson 2000, AJ,  120, 552 
"Signatures of Interstellar-Intracluster Medium Interactions: Spiral Galaxy Rotation Curves in Abell 2029"
 
D. Dale, R. Giovanelli, M. Haynes, E. Hardy & L. Campusano 2001, AJ, 121, 1886
"Signatures of Galaxy-Cluster Interactions: Spiral Galaxy Rotation Curve Asymmetry, Shape, and Extent"