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Data from the Hipparcos catalog are used to study the internal kinematics of the Hyades cluster. Cluster members whose proper motions and parallaxes are known with precisions not less than 5 mas/yr and 3 mas were used. The proper motions were reduced to the cluster center. A correlation between a component of the tangential velocity and the parallax provides evidence for possible rotation of the cluster. The total velocity gradient is 0.04±0.03 km s−1 pc−1. The rotation axis is located perpendicular to the direction to the Hyades apex on the celestial sphere.
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Original Russian Text © S.V. Vereshchagin, V.G. Reva, N.V. Chupina, 2013, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2013, Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. 60–63.
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Vereshchagin, S.V., Reva, V.G. & Chupina, N.V. Rotation of the Hyades derived from Hipparcos data. Astron. Rep. 57, 52–55 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772912120062
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