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We report new results from an HST archival program to study proper motions in the optical jet of the nearby radio galaxy M87. Using over 13 years of archival imaging, we reach accuracies below 0.1c in measuring the apparent velocities of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Eileen T. Meyer , W. B. Sparks , J. A. Biretta , Jay Anderson , Sangmo Tony Sohn , Roeland P. van der Marel , Colin Norman , Masanori Nakamura

We present radial velocities for approximately 40 stars in each of three optically obscured, off-axis, fields toward the Galactic bulge. Combined with the data presented by Blum et al. (1994), we now have mean radial velocities and radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Robert Blum , John Carr , Kris Sellgren , Don Terndrup

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 present first results from our project to examine the internal kinematics of disk galaxies in 7 rich clusters with 0.3<=z<0.6. Spatially resolved MOS spectra have been obtained with FORS at the VLT. We concentrate here on the clusters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Ziegler , A. Boehm , K. Jaeger , A. Fritz , J. Heidt

We present proper motions derived from WFPC2 imaging for stars in the core of the peculiar globular cluster NGC 6752. The central velocity dispersion in both components of the proper motion is 12 km/s. We discuss the implications of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. A. Drukier , C. D. Bailyn , W. F. Van Altena , T. M. Girard

We report first results from the ``Streaming Motions of Abell Clusters'' (SMAC) project, an all-sky Fundamental Plane survey of 699 early-type galaxies in 56 clusters between ~3000 km/s and ~14000 km/s. For this sample, with a median…

Recent observations of the Coma cluster of galaxies in its central region have provided approximately 250 new redshifts - allowing a good membership criterion to be established for brighter galaxies - and magnitudes for 8000 objects in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Durret , A. Biviano , D. Gerbal , O. Le Fevre , C. Lobo , A. Mazure , E. Slezak

We present the stellar velocity maps of 25 massive early type galaxies located in dense environments observed with MUSE. Galaxies are selected to be brighter than M_K=-25.7 magnitude, reside in the core of the Shapley Super Cluster or be…

The 3D velocities of M31 and M33 are important for understanding the evolution and cosmological context of the Local Group. Their most massive stars are detected by Gaia, and we use Data Release 2 (DR2) to determine the galaxy proper…

A modified gravity (MOG) theory, that has been successfully fitted to galaxy rotational velocity data, cluster data, the Bullet Cluster 1E0657-56 and cosmological observations, is shown to be in good agreement with the motion of satellite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-10 J. W. Moffat , V. T. Toth

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

The Galactic population of open clusters provides an insight into star formation in the Galaxy. The open cluster catalogue by Dias et al.(2002b) is a rich source of data, including kinematic information. This large sample made it possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Vande Putte , T. P. Garnier , Ignacio Ferreras , R. P. Mignani , Mark Cropper

We report ALMA Early Science observations of the Abell 1835 brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) in the CO (3-2) and CO (1-0) emission lines. We detect $5\times 10^{10}~\rm M_\odot$ of molecular gas within 10 kpc of the BCG. Its ensemble velocity…

We have measured the absolute proper motion of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy from a combination of photographic plate material and HST WFPC2 data that provide a time baseline of up to 50 years. The extragalactic reference frame…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dana I. Dinescu , Brian A. Keeney , Steve R. Majewski , Terrence M. Girard

(ABRIDGED) Recent near-IR surveys have uncovered a plethora of new globular cluster (GC) candidates towards the Milky Way bulge. These new candidates need to be confirmed as real GCs and properly characterised. We investigate the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-12 B. Dias , T. Palma , D. Minniti , J. G. Fernández-Trincado , J. Alonso-García , B. Barbuy , J. J. Clariá , M. Gomez , R. K. Saito

We have measured the absolute proper motion of the young globular cluster Pal 12 with respect to background galaxies, using plate material spanning a 40-year time baseline, and measuring stars down to a magnitude V~22. The measured absolute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. I. Dinescu , S. R. Majewski , T. M. Girard , K. M. Cudworth

We have measured the proper motion of the Local Group galaxy IC 10 with the Very Long Baseline Array by measuring the position of an H2O maser relative to two background quasars over 4.3 years. After correction for the rotation of the Milky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Brunthaler , M. J. Reid , H. Falcke , C. Henkel , K. M. Menten

We have obtained 2640 CCD spectra with resolution ~4 Angstrom in the region 7250-9000 Angstroms for 976 stars lying near the red giant branches in color-magnitude diagrams of 52 Galactic globular clusters. Radial velocities of ~16 km/second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. A. Rutledge , J. E. Hesser , P. B. Stetson , M. Mateo , L. Simard , M. Bolte , E. D. Friel , Y. Copin

The peculiar velocity function of clusters of galaxies is determined using an accurate sample of cluster velocities based on Tully-Fisher distances of Sc galaxies (Giovanelli et al 1995b). In contrast with previous results based on samples…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Neta A. Bahcall , Siang Peng Oh

Over a two year period (1995-1997), we have conducted a diffraction-limited imaging study at 2.2 microns of the inner 6"x6" of the Galaxy's central stellar cluster using the Keck 10-m telescope. The K band images obtained reveal a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. M. Ghez , B. L. Klein , M. Morris , E. E. Becklin
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