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We present a new method for recovering the underlying velocity field from an observed distribution of galaxies in redshift space. The method is based on a kinematic Zel'dovich relation between the velocity and density fields in redshift…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Adi Nusser , Marc Davis

The Gaia Radial Velocity Spectrometer (RVS) provides a sample of 7,224,631 stars with full six-dimensional phase space information. Bayesian distances of these stars are available from the catalogue of Sch\"onrich et al. (2019). We exploit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-21 A. Everall , N. W. Evans , V. Belokurov , R. Schönrich

We show that, provided the principal axes of the second velocity moment tensor of a stellar population are generally unequal and are oriented perpendicular to a set of orthogonal surfaces at each point, then those surfaces must be confocal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-25 N. W. Evans , J. L. Sanders , A. A. Williams , J. An , D. Lynden-Bell , W. Dehnen

The spatio-temporal dynamics of the solar photosphere is studied by performing a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) of line of sight velocity fields computed from high resolution data coming from the MDI/SOHO instrument. Using this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Vecchio , V. Carbone , F. Lepreti , L. Primavera , L. Sorriso-Valvo , P. Veltri , G. Alfonsi , Th. Straus

In this paper we extend a new method to measure possible variation of the speed of light by using Baryon Acoustic Oscillations and the Hubble function presented in our earlier paper [V. Salzano, M. P. D\c{a}browski, and R. Lazkoz, Phys.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Adam Balcerzak , Mariusz P. Dabrowski , Vincenzo Salzano

We use a composite gravitational galactic model consisting of a disk, a halo, a massive nucleus and a strong nuclear bar, in order to study the connections between global and local parameters in a realistic dynamical system. The local model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-05-01 Euaggelos E. Zotos

High precision and long-lasting \emph{Kepler} data enabled us to estimate stellar properties with asteroseismology as an accurate tool. We performed asteroseismic analysis on six solar-like stars observed by the \emph{Kepler} mission: KIC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-23 Yaguang Li , Minghao Du , Bohan Xie , Zhijia Tian , Shaolan Bi , Tanda Li , Yaqian Wu , Kang Liu

[Abridged] We present ground-based MDM V-band and Spitzer/IRAC 3.6um-band photometric observations of the 72 representative galaxies of the SAURON Survey. In combination with the SAURON stellar velocity dispersion measured within an…

We consider the kinematic dynamo equations for a passive vector in $\mathcal{M} \times \mathbb{T} \subseteq \mathbb{R}^2 \times \mathbb{T}$ describing the evolution of a magnetic field with resistivity $\varepsilon>0$, that is transported…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Víctor Navarro-Fernández , David Villringer

Using the spatial classification method and the structural parameters estimated for the Gould Belt (GB) and the local Galactic disk (LGD) from a previous paper, we have evaluated spatial membership probabilities for a sample of O and B…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Elias , E. J. Alfaro , J. Cabrera-Cano

A key question in understanding the observed magnetic field topologies of cool stars is the link between the small- and the large-scale magnetic field and the influence of the stellar parameters on the magnetic field topology. We examine…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 L. T. Lehmann , M. M. Jardine , D. H. Mackay , A. A. Vidotto

To understand the formation and evolution of solar-type stars in the solar neighborhood, we need to measure their stellar parameters to high accuracy. We present a catalogue of accurate stellar parameters for 451 stars that represent the…

Peculiar velocities thoughout the region of the local supercluster are reconstructed by two different orbit-retracing methods. The requirement of the optimal correlation between the radial components of reconstructed velocities and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roya Mohayaee , R. Brent Tully

Based on long baseline (5-7 years) multi-epoch HST/ACS photometry, used previously to measure the proper motion of M31, we present the proper motions (PMs) of 13 main-sequence Milky Way halo stars. The sample lies at an average distance of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 A. J. Deason , R. P. Van der Marel , P. Guhathakurta , S. T. Sohn , T. M. Brown

(Abridged) We study the impact of cluster environment on the evolution of spiral galaxies by examining their structure and kinematics. Rather than two-dimensional rotation curves, we observe complete velocity fields by placing three…

By pursuing the goal to find new variables in the COROT field-of-view we characterised a sample of stars located in the lower part of the instability strip. Our sample is composed of stars belonging to the disk population in the solar…

The recent re-evaulation of the peculiar velocity field outside the Local Supercluster (Dekel et al. 1999, ApJ 522) has permitted a re-examination of the origins of the peculiar velocity field within the Local Supercluster using the Mark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Burstein

We provide a set of general tools to study the problem of stellar equilibrium in any gravitational theory in which spherically symmetric spacetimes satisfy master field equations taking the form of an equality between an identically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-26 Julio Arrechea , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Matt Visser

The goal of this paper is to investigate the optimal parameters space for using the reloaded Rossiter-McLaughlin technique to detect differential rotation (DR) and centre-to-limb convective variations. We simulated a star-planet system with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 N. Roguet-Kern , H. M. Cegla , V. Bourrier

Hundreds of candidate hybrid pulsators of intermediate type A-F were revealed by the recent space missions. Hybrid pulsators allow to study the full stellar interiors, where p- and g-modes are simultaneously excited. The true hybrid stars…