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The Gaia mission has opened a new window into the internal kinematics of young star clusters at the sub-km/s level, with implications for our understanding of how star clusters form and evolve. We use a sample of 28 clusters and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 Michael A. Kuhn , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Alison Sills , Eric D. Feigelson , Konstantin V. Getman

We present a spectro-photometric survey of 2522 extragalactic globular clusters (GCs) around twelve early-type galaxies, nine of which have not been published previously. Combining space-based and multi-colour wide field ground-based…

In the context of a project aimed at characterizing the properties of star clusters in the Galactic bulge, here we present the determination of the internal kinematics and structure of the massive globular cluster NGC 6569. The kinematics…

We have determined bulk proper motions (PMs) for 31 LMC GCs from Gaia eDR3 and Hubble Space Telescope data using multiple independent analysis techniques. Combined with literature values for distances, line-of-sight velocities and existing…

We report results of proper motions of 15 known Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) old globular clusters (GCs) derived from the Gaia DR2 data sets. When these mean proper motions are gathered with existent radial velocity measurements to compose…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 Andrés E. Piatti , Emilio J. Alfaro , Tristan Cantat-Gaudin

We present kinematical analyses of 22 Galactic globular clusters using the Hubble Space Telescope proper motion (HSTPROMO) catalogues recently presented in Bellini et al. (2014). For most clusters, this is the first proper-motion study ever…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Laura L. Watkins , Roeland P. van der Marel , Andrea Bellini , Jay Anderson

This study constitutes part of a larger effort aimed at better characterizing the Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) located towards the inner Milky Way bulge and disk. Here, we focus on internal kinematics of nine GGCs, obtained from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Roger E. Cohen , Andrea Bellini , Mattia Libralato , Matteo Correnti , Thomas M. Brown , Jason S. Kalirai

We have spectroscopically identified about 100 G-, K- and M-type members of the Scorpius Centaurus complex. To deduce the age of these young stars we compare their Li $\lambda$6708 absorption line strengths against those of stars in the TW…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-26 Inseok Song , Ben Zuckerman , Mike Bessell

Aims. We are searching for new open clusters or moving groups in the Solar neighbourhood. Methods. We used the Gaia-TGAS catalogue, cut it into narrow proper motion and parallax slices and searched for significant spatial over-densities of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Siegfried Röser , Elena Schilbach , Bertrand Goldman , Thomas Henning , Attila Moor , Aliz Derekas

We present a study of the kinematics of the remote globular cluster NGC5694 based on GIRAFFE@VLT medium resolution spectra. A sample of 165 individual stars selected to lie on the Red Giant Branch in the cluster Color Magnitude Diagram was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Bellazzini , A. Mucciarelli , A. Sollima , M. Catelan , E. Dalessandro , M. Correnti , V. D'Orazi , C. Cortes , P. Amigo

We investigate the spatial distribution, the space velocities and age distribution of the pre-main sequence (PMS) stars belonging to Ophiuchus, Lupus and Chamaeleon star-forming regions (SFRs), and of the young early-type star members of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Marilia J. Sartori , Jacques R. D. Lepine , Wilton S. Dias

We report results of proper motions of 25 known Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) clusters (ages ~ 1 - 10 Gyr old) derived from Gaia EDR3 data sets. When these mean proper motions are gathered with existent radial velocity measurements to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 Andrés E. Piatti

The Serpens OB2 association (l ~ 18.5 deg, b ~ 1.9 deg, d = 1950 +/- 30 pc) is a large star-forming complex ~65 pc above the Galactic midplane, with a clumpy, elongated structure extending ~50 pc parallel to the plane. We analyse probable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-13 Michael A. Kuhn , Robert A. Benjamin , Simran S. Singh

We cross-match objects from several different astronomical catalogs to determine the absolute proper proper motions of stars within the 30-arcmin radius fields of 115 Milky-Way globular clusters with the accuracy of 1--2~mas/yr. The proper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 A. A. Chemel , E. V. Glushkova , A. K. Dambis , A. S. Rastorguev , L. N. Yalyalieva

We report the serendipitous discovery of several young mid-M stars found during a search for new members of the 30-40 Myr-old Octans Association. Only one of the stars may be considered a possible Octans(-Near) member. However, two stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 Simon J. Murphy , Warrick A. Lawson , Joao Bento

We investigate the internal and relative motions of the Taurus and Ophiuchus star-forming regions using a sample of young stars with accurately measured radial velocities and proper motions. We find no evidence for expansion or contraction…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-15 Juana L. Rivera , Laurent Loinard , Sergio A. Dzib , Gisela N. Ortiz-León , Luis F. Rodríguez , Rosa M. Torres

Stellar kinematic groups (SKG) are kinematically coherent groups of stars that share a common origin. We have compiled (Montes et al. 1999; 2000) a sample of late-type stars of previously established members and possible new candidates to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. Montes

We present a kinematic study of the Orion Nebula Cluster based upon radial velocities measured by multi-fiber echelle spectroscopy at the 6.5 meter MMT and Magellan telescopes. Velocities are reported for 1613 stars, with multi-epoch data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. J. Tobin , L. Hartmann , G. Furesz , M. Mateo , S. T. Megeath

Understanding the kinematic behaviour of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) remains a challenge addressed by many authors using diverse approaches. Over time, increasing observational evidence has accumulated for tidal perturbations induced…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-10 Denis M. F. Illesca , Andrés E. Piatti , Matías Chiarpotti , Roberto Butrón

We have used the ARGUS multi-object spectrometer at the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope to obtain 2756 radial velocity measurements for 1966 individual stars in the globular cluster omega Centauri brighter than blue photographic magnitude of about…