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The spatial variations of the velocity field of local stars provide direct evidence of Galactic differential rotation. The local divergence, shear, and vorticity of the velocity field---the traditional Oort constants---can be measured based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-18 Jo Bovy

In this work, we analysed young stellar clusters with spatial and kinematic coherence in the Orion star-forming complex. For this study, we selected a sample of pre-main sequence candidates using parallaxes, proper motions and positions on…

Based on kinematic data on masers with known trigonometric parallaxes and measurements of the velocities of HI clouds at tangential points in the inner Galaxy, we have refined the parameters of the Allen-Santillan model Galactic potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-10-29 Vadim Bobylev , Anisa Bajkova

We investigate the old star clusters in the sample of cluster candidates from Froebrich, Scholz & Raftery 2007 -- the FSR list. Based on photometry from the 2-Micron All Sky Survey we generated decontaminated colour-magnitude and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Froebrich , S. Schmeja , D. Samuel , P. W. Lucas

We derive the mean velocity components at various Galactocentric radii from 8 to 14 kpc using about 40,000 red clump stars observed in the LAMOST survey. We find that the vertical bulk motion for younger red clump stars are significantly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Chao Liu , Hai-Jun Tian , Jun-Chen Wan

We present radial velocities for five member stars of the recently discovered young (age= 100-150 Myr) stellar system Price-Whelan 1 (PW 1), that is located far away in the Galactic Halo (D~ 29 kpc, Z~ 15 kpc), and that is probably…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 M. Bellazzini , R. A. Ibata , N. Martin , K. Malhan , A. Marasco , B. Famaey

We collected radial velocities of more than 50.000 individual stars in 156 Galactic globular clusters (GGC) and matched them with HST photometry and Gaia DR2 proper motions. This allowed us to derive the GGC's mean proper motions and space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Michael Hilker , Holger Baumgardt , Antonio Sollima , Andrea Bellini

A new method for determining the nature of the orbital motion (chaotic or regular) of globular clusters in the central region of the Galaxy with a radius of 3.5 kpc, which are most affected by the bar, is proposed. The method is based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-30 Anisa Bajkova , Anton Smirnov , Vadim Bobylev

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 determined the Galactic rotation parameters and the solar Galactocentric distance $R_0$ by simultaneously solving Bottlinger's kinematic equations using data on masers with known line-of-sight velocities and highly accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-14 A. T. Bajkova , V. V. Bobylev

We use about 200,000 FGK type main-sequence stars from the LAMOST DR1 data to map the local stellar kinematics. With the velocity de-projection technique, we are able to derive the averaged 3 dimensional velocity and velocity ellipsoids…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Hai-Jun Tian , Chao Liu , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Yong-Heng Zhao , Xue-Lei Chen , Yue Wu , Guang-Wei Li , Yong-Hui Hou , Yong Zhang

In this paper we study the evolution of core and corona of nine open clusters using the projected radial density profiles derived from homogeneous CCD photometric data obtained through the 105-cm Kiso Schmidt telescope. The age and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Sharma , A. K. Pandey , K. Ogura , H. Mito , K. Tarusava , R. Sagar

We present comprehensive characterization of the Galactic open cluster M 36. Some two hundred member candidates, with an estimated contamination rate of $\sim$8%, have been identified on the basis of proper motion and parallax measured by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Alik Panja , Wen Ping Chen , Somnath Dutta , Yan Sun , Yu Gao , Soumen Mondal

We present rotation curves of the Galaxy based on the space-velocities of 197 OB stars and 144 classical cepheids, respectively, which range over a galactocentric distance interval of about 6 to 12 kpc. No significant differences between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Frink , B. Fuchs , S. Roeser , R. Wielen

Four samples of open star clusters (OSCs) with average ages of 5.2, 18.6, 40, and 61 Myr have been analyzed. The selection of these OSCs was carried out from a narrow region inclined to the galactic axis y at an angle of 25$^\circ$. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-28 V. V. Bobylev , N. R. Ikhsanov , A. T. Bajkova

A simple one-dimensional axisymmetric disc model is applied to the kinematics of OB stars near the Sun obtained from Gaia DR3 catalogue. The model determines the 'local centrifugal speed' $V_\mathrm{c}(R_{0})$ - defined as the circular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-11 Aisha S. Almannaei , Daisuke Kawata , Junichi Baba , Jason A. S. Hunt , George Seabroke , Ziyang Yan

A study of cluster characteristics and internal kinematical structure of the middle-aged Pleiades open star cluster is presented. The individual star apexes and various cluster kinematical parameters including the velocity ellipsoid…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 W. H. Elsanhoury , E. S. Postnikova , N. V. Chupina , S. V. Vereshchagin , Devesh P. Sariya , R. K. S. Yadav , Ing-Guey Jiang

The kinematic properties of the Sco-Cen association have been studied using the spatial velocities of young stars. New kinematic age estimates for the three components of the association with the age of UCL and LCC being $17.7\pm2.4$ Myrs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-29 Vadim V. Bobylev , Anisa T. Bajkova

We used more than $10^5$ Gaia DR3 line broadening vbroad measurements to examine stellar rotation as a function of stellar temperature, mass and age. The large sample clearly displays the Kraft break at $\sim 6{,}500$\,K, or mass of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Amitay Sussholz , Tsevi Mazeh , Simchon Faigler

We analyze the physical properties of stellar clusters that are detected in massive star-forming regions in the MYStIX project--a comparative, multiwavelength study of young stellar clusters within 3.6 kpc that contain at least one O-type…