A Unified HI Rotation Curve Corpus for Computational Astrophysics: 438 Galaxies from SPARC, THINGS, LITTLE THINGS, and WALLABY DR2
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| contents | We present a unified corpus of 8,963 spatially resolved HI rotation curve measurements across 423 galaxies (438 total catalog entries including 15 metadata-only THINGS galaxies), drawn from four major surveys: SPARC (175), THINGS (34), LITTLE THINGS (26), and WALLABY DR2 (203). The corpus is distributed as a single structured JSON file with nested per-ring kinematic data, survey metadata, column definitions, and data-quality annotations, accompanied by a 438-row flat CSV for catalog-level filtering. All radii are in kiloparsecs, all velocities in km/s. Kinematic parameters have been verified against scanned primary tables. A two-tier quality system distinguishes hand-curated rotation curves with per-point uncertainties (Tier 1) from automated pipeline products (Tier 2). The corpus was designed for both traditional numerical analysis and Large Language Model retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. Three worked examples demonstrate single-galaxy rotation curve plotting, multi-component baryonic analysis, and corpus-level parameter-space exploration, each requiring fewer than 15 lines of Python. The corpus is publicly available at Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19563417) under CC BY 4.0. |
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| spellingShingle | A Unified HI Rotation Curve Corpus for Computational Astrophysics: 438 Galaxies from SPARC, THINGS, LITTLE THINGS, and WALLABY DR2 Flynn, David C. Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics We present a unified corpus of 8,963 spatially resolved HI rotation curve measurements across 423 galaxies (438 total catalog entries including 15 metadata-only THINGS galaxies), drawn from four major surveys: SPARC (175), THINGS (34), LITTLE THINGS (26), and WALLABY DR2 (203). The corpus is distributed as a single structured JSON file with nested per-ring kinematic data, survey metadata, column definitions, and data-quality annotations, accompanied by a 438-row flat CSV for catalog-level filtering. All radii are in kiloparsecs, all velocities in km/s. Kinematic parameters have been verified against scanned primary tables. A two-tier quality system distinguishes hand-curated rotation curves with per-point uncertainties (Tier 1) from automated pipeline products (Tier 2). The corpus was designed for both traditional numerical analysis and Large Language Model retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. Three worked examples demonstrate single-galaxy rotation curve plotting, multi-component baryonic analysis, and corpus-level parameter-space exploration, each requiring fewer than 15 lines of Python. The corpus is publicly available at Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19563417) under CC BY 4.0. |
| title | A Unified HI Rotation Curve Corpus for Computational Astrophysics: 438 Galaxies from SPARC, THINGS, LITTLE THINGS, and WALLABY DR2 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13489 |