naa a22 4500 510732593 CHVBK 20180411082958.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1134/S1063772913020078 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1134/S1063772913020078 Malkin Z. Central Astronomical (Pulkovo) Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia aut Analysis of determinations of the distance between the sun and the galactic center [Elektronische Daten] [Z. Malkin] The paper investigates the question of whether or not determinations of the distance between the Sun and the Galactic center R 0 are affected by the so-called "bandwagon effect”, leading to selection effects in published data that tend to be close to expected values, as was suggested by some authors. It is difficult to estimate numerically a systematic uncertainty in R 0 due to the bandwagon effect; however, it is highly probable that, even if widely accepted values differ appreciably from the true value, the published results should eventually approach the true value despite the bandwagon effect. This should be manifest as a trend in the published R 0 data: if this trend is statistically significant, the presence of the bandwagon effect can be suspected in the data. Fifty two determinations of R 0 published over the last 20 years were analyzed. These data reveal no statistically significant trend, suggesting they are unlikely to involve any systematic uncertainty due to the bandwagon effect. At the same time, the published data show a gradual and statistically significant decrease in the uncertainties in the R 0 determinations with time. Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2013 Astronomy Reports SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica 57/2(2013-02-01), 128-133 1063-7729 57:2<128 2013 57 11444 https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772913020078 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772913020078 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Malkin Z. Central Astronomical (Pulkovo) Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Astronomy Reports SP MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica 57/2(2013-02-01), 128-133 1063-7729 57:2<128 2013 57 11444 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer