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We measure the contribution of galaxy disks to the overall gravitational potential of 30 nearly face-on intermediate-to-late-type spirals from the DiskMass Survey. The central vertical velocity dispersion of the disk stars, sigma(z,R=0), is…

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We select 1,052,469 (754,635) thin disk stars from {\it Gaia} eDR3 and LAMOST DR7 in the range of Galactocentric radius $R$ (guiding center radius $R_\mathrm{g}$) from 8 to 11\,kpc to investigate the asymmetries between the North and South…

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Using a large sample of 9617 molecular clouds (MCs) from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting survey, we mainly measure one-dimensional cloud-to-cloud velocity dispersions across a 450 deg$^{2}$ segment of the Local arm in the Galactic…

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We derive the vertical velocities of disk stars in the range of Galactocentric radii of R=5-16 kpc within 2 kpc in height from the Galactic plane. This kinematic information is connected to dynamical aspects in the formation and evolution…

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Recent studies have found that the oldest and most luminous galaxies in the early Universe are surprisingly compact, having stellar masses similar to present-day elliptical galaxies but much smaller sizes. This finding has attracted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Pieter G. van Dokkum , Mariska Kriek , Marijn Franx

We use the ~370 square degrees data from the MWISP CO survey to study the vertical distribution of the molecular clouds (MCs) toward the tangent points in the region of l=[16,52]deg and |b|<5.1deg. The molecular disk consists of two…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-14 Yang Su , Ji Yang , Qing-Zeng Yan , Shaobo Zhang , Hongchi Wang , Yan Sun , Zhiwei Chen , Chen Wang , Xin Zhou , Xuepeng Chen , Zhibo Jiang , Min Wang

Using a sample of nearly 140,000 red clump stars selected from the LAMOST and Gaia Galactic surveys, we have mapped mean vertical velocity $\overline{V_{z}}$ in the $X$-$Y$ plane for a large volume of the Galactic disk (6 $< R < 16$ kpc;…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-30 X. -Y. Li , Y. Huang , B. -Q. Chen , H. -F. Wang , W. -X. Sun , H. -L. Guo , Q. -Z. Li , X. -W. Liu

Based on high-resolution spectra obtained with the MIKE spectrograph on the Magellan telescopes we present detailed elemental abundances for 20 red giant stars in the outer Galactic disk, located at Galactocentric distances between 9 and 13…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-28 T. Bensby , A. Alves-Brito , M. S. Oey , D. Yong , J. Meléndez

The velocity dispersion of stars in the solar neighbourhood thin disc increases with time after star formation. Nordstrom et al. (2004) is the most recent observational attempt to constrain the age-velocity dispersion relation. They fitted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. M. Seabroke , G. Gilmore

Based on SDSS DR8, we have selected a sample of 1728 red horizontal branch stars with |Z|<3 kpc by using a color-metallicity relation and stellar parameters. The sample stars clearly trace a typical thick disk population with peaks at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Y. Q. Chen , G. Zhao , K. Carrell , J. K. Zhao

The stellar velocity dispersion, $\sigma$, is a quantity of crucial importance for spiral galaxies, where it enters fundamental dynamical processes such as gravitational instability and disc heating. Here we analyse a sample of 34 nearby…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Keoikantse Moses Mogotsi , Alessandro B. Romeo

We present measurements of the stellar velocity dispersion in the inner 1 arcmin radius (1.3 disk scale-lengths) of the irregular galaxy NGC 4449 determined from long-slit absorption-line spectra. The average observed dispersion is 29 +/-2…

We use the proper motions (PM) of half a million red giant stars in Large Magellanic Cloud measured by Gaia to construct a 2d kinematic map of mean PM and its dispersion across the galaxy, out to 7 Kpc from its centre. We then explore a…

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We discuss the distribution of radial velocities of galaxies belonging to the Local Group. Two independent samples of galaxies as well as several methods of reduction from the heliocentric to the galactocentric radial velocities are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Wlodzimierz Godlowski , Katarzyna Bajan , Piotr Flin

We present a detailed analysis of kinematics of the Milky Way disk in solar neighborhood using GAIA DR3 catalog. To determine the local kinematics of the stellar disks of the Milky Way galaxy we use a complete sample of 278,228 red giant…

The relative pair dispersion of galaxies has for the past decade been the standard measure of the thermal energy of fluctuations in the observed galaxy distribution. This statistic is known to be unstable, since it is a pair-weighted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marc Davis , Amber Miller , Simon D. M. White

We present measurements of the velocity dispersion profile (VDP) for galaxy groups in the final data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). For groups of given mass we estimate the redshift-space cross-correlation function (CCF)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Cheng Li , Y. P. Jing , Shude Mao , Jiaxin Han , Qiuying Peng , Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank van den Bosch

The distribution of early-type galaxy velocity dispersions, phi(sigma), is measured using a sample drawn from the SDSS database. Its shape differs significantly from that which one obtains by simply using the mean correlation between…

We have re-estimated the surface density of the Galactic disk in the solar neighborhood within $\pm$ 0.4 kpc of the Sun using parallaxes and proper motions of a kinematically and spatially unbiased sample of 1476 old bright red giant stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. I. Korchagin , T. M. Girard , T. V. Borkova , D. I. Dinescu , W. F. van Altena

We study the distribution of central velocity dispersion, sigma, for >100000 galaxies in the SDSS at 0.01 <= z <= 0.1. We construct the velocity dispersion function (VDF) from samples complete for all sigma, where galaxies with sigma…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-02 Farhanul Hasan , Alison Crocker