RMTable: Consolidated Faraday Rotation Measures of Radio Sources, 1980-Present

A consolidated catalog of Faraday rotation measures and related properties for astronomical radio sources. It aggregates data from many published catalogs in the astronomical literature spanning from 1980 to the present day. The catalog was created by Cameron L. Van Eck at the University of Toronto and is stored in multiple standard formats.

Use Cases

• Studying galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields based on Faraday rotation measures.
• Cross-matching and analyzing properties of radio sources consolidated from multiple catalogs.
• Developing models of the magneto-ionic interstellar medium using the aggregated rotation measure data.

Strengths

• Consolidates data from many published catalogs, likely increasing coverage.
• Covers a long temporal range of astronomical literature from 1980 to the present.
• Provides data in multiple standard formats (FITS, TSV, VOTable) for interoperability.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

University of Toronto

Collection Method

Consolidated and converted from many published astronomical catalogs.

Time Range

1980 to present day