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We present results from a large spectroscopic survey of the nearest young association to the Sun, Upper Scorpius, conducted using 2dF/HERMES on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. We use spectroscopic youth criteria such as Li-equivalent widths…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 Joseph J. Armstrong , Jonathan C. Tan , Nicholas J. Wright , R. D. Jeffries , Janez Kos , E. Fiorellino , Sven Buder , D. Barrios Lopez

Currently available data on the field of velocities Vr, Vl, Vb for open star clusters are used to perform a kinematic analysis of various samples that differ by heliocentric distance, age, and membership in individual structures (the Orion,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova , S. V. Lebedeva

We present the kinematic analysis of $246$ stars within $4\mbox{$^\prime$}$ from the center of Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), the closest massive star cluster with active star formation across the full mass range, which provides valuable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-23 Lingfeng Wei , Christopher A. Theissen , Quinn M. Konopacky , Jessica R. Lu , Chih-Chun Hsu , Dongwon Kim

HIRES on the Keck I telescope has been used to measure the first radial velocities for stars belonging to eleven, heavily-reddened globular clusters in the direction of the inner Galaxy. The question of kinematic substructuring among the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Patrick Cote

Several recent numerical simulations of off-center cluster mergers predict that significant angular momentum with associated velocities of a few x 10^{3} km/s can be imparted to the resulting cluster. Such gas bulk velocities can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Renato A. Dupke , Joel N. Bregman

We present the stellar radial velocity analysis of the central 1x1' of the young massive Small Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC 346. Using VLT/MUSE integral field spectroscopy in combination with Hubble Space Telescope photometry we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 Peter Zeidler , Elena Sabbi , Antonella Nota

We have analyzed the kinematics of open star clusters (OSCs) with the proper motions and distances calculated by Hao et al. based on Gaia EDR3 data. The mean line-of-sight velocities are known for a number of clusters from this list. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-25 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

We summarize observational results on the stellar population and star formation history of the Scorpius-Centaurus OB Association (Sco OB2), the nearest region of recent massive star formation. It consists of three subgroups, Upper Scorpius…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-03 Thomas Preibisch , Eric Mamajek

We present an analysis of the velocity space of a sample of globular clusters (GC) with absolute proper motions. The vertical component of the velocity is found to be correlated with luminosity and galactocentric radius. We divided the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. J. Alfaro , A. J. Delgado , M. A. Gomez-Flechoso , F. Ferrini , I. Castro

We derive single-epoch radial velocities for a sample of 56 B-type stars members of the subgroups Upper Scorpius, Upper Centaurus Lupus and Lower Centaurus Crux of the nearby Sco-Cen OB association. The radial velocity measurements were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Jilinski , S. Daflon , K. Cunha , R. de la Reza

We use Gaia Data Release 2 to determine the mean proper motions for 150 Milky Way globular clusters (almost the entire known population), with a typical uncertainty of 0.05 mas/yr limited mainly by systematic errors. Combining them with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-23 Eugene Vasiliev

We present a detailed analysis of the kinematics of 112 stars that mostly comprise the high velocity S-cluster and orbit the super massive black hole SgrA* at the center of the Milky Way. For 39 of them orbital elements are known, for the…

Proper motion measurements of the cool and ultracool populations in the Upper Scorpius OB association are crucial to confirm membership and to identify possible run-away objects. We cross-match samples of photometrically selected and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Herve Bouy , Eduardo L. Martin

We present VLT/FLAMES spectroscopic observations (R~6500) in the CaII triplet region for 470 probable kinematic members of the Sculptor (Scl) dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The accurate velocities (+- 2 km/s) and large area coverage of Scl allow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Battaglia , A. Helmi , E. Tolstoy , M. Irwin , V. Hill , P. Jablonka

The predictions from a Galactic Structure and Kinematic model code are compared to the color counts and absolute proper-motions derived from the Southern Proper-Motion survey covering more than 700 $\deg^2$ toward the South Galactic Pole in…

The stellar dynamics of Omega Centauri are inferred from the radial velocities of 469 stars measured with CORAVEL (Mayor et al. 1997). Rather than fit the data to a family of models, we generate estimates of all dynamical functions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 David Merritt , G. Meylan , M. Mayor

We have analyzed the kinematics of OB stars from the list by Xiang et al. (2021) that contains $\sim$13 000 single OB stars. For these stars there are photometric distance estimates and proper motions from the Gaia catalogue and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova , G. M. Karelin

Scorpius-Centaurus is the nearest OB association and its hundreds of members were divided into sub-groups, including Lower Centaurus Crux. Here we study the dynamics of the Lower Centaurus Crux area stellar content. We report the revelation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Bertrand Goldman , Siegfried Roeser , Elena Schilbach , Attila C. Moór , Thomas Henning

The spatial and kinematic properties of a large sample of young T Tauri stars from the solar neighborhood 500 pc in radius have been studied. The following parameters of the position ellipsoid have been determined from the most probable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-17 V. V. Bobylev

We explore the kinematics and star formation history of the Scorpius Centaurus (Sco-Cen) OB association following the initial identification of sequential, linearly aligned chains of clusters. Building upon our characterization of the…