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Two motions in the galactic plane have been detected and characterized, based on the determination of a common systematic component in Hipparcos catalogue proper motions. The procedure is based only on positions, proper motions and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlos Abad , Katherine Vieira

Presented here are 442 new proper motion stellar systems in the southern sky between declinations -$90\degr$ and -47$\degr$ with 0$\farcs$40 yr$^{-1}$ $>$ $\mu$ $\ge$ 0$\farcs$18 yr$^{-1}$. These systems constitute a 25.3% increase in new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Charlie T. Finch , Norbert Zacharias , Todd J. Henry

We modeled the kinematics of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) by analyzing the proper motion (PM) from Gaia DR3 of nine different stellar populations, which include young main sequence (MS) stars (< 2 Gyr), red giant branch stars, red clump…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-03 S. R. Dhanush , A. Subramaniam , S. Subramanian

The distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) can be directly determined by measuring three of its properties, its radial-velocity field, its mean proper motion, and the position angle \phi_ph of its photometric line of nodes.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew Gould

Using astrometric techniques developed by Anderson et al., we determine proper motions (PMs) in 14.60 arcmin X 16.53 arcmin area of the kinematically "thick-disk" globular cluster M12. The cluster's proximity and sparse nature makes it a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Devesh P. Sariya , Ing-Guey Jiang , R. K. S. Yadav

We have measured the proper motion of the Draco dwarf galaxy using images at two epochs with a time baseline of about two years taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and the Advanced Camera for Surveys. Wide Field Channel 1 and 2 provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Carlton Pryor , Slawomir Piatek , Edward W. Olszewski

We present 474 new proper motion stellar systems in the southern sky having no previously known components, with 0.40" yr^-1 > mu >= 0.18" yr^-1 between declinations -47 deg and 00 deg. In this second paper utilizing the U.S. Naval…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. T. Finch , N. Zacharias , M. R. Boyd , T. J. Henry , N. C. Hambly

We present proper motion measurements of pre-main sequence (PMS) stars associated with major star-forming regions of the southern hemisphere (Chamaeleon, Lupus, Upper Scorpius - Ophiuchus, Corona Australis), situated in the galactic…

Accelerations of both the solar system barycenter (SSB) and stars in the Milky Way cause a systematic observational effect on the stellar proper motions, which was first studied in the early 1990s and developed by J. Kovalevsky (aberration…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Jia-Cheng Liu , Yi Xie , Zi Zhu

We present the first results from the Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey. Using 2 Micron All Sky Survey data along with that of the SuperCOSMOS sky survey we have been able to produce the first widefield infrared proper motion survey.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. R. Deacon , N. C. Hambly , J. A. Cooke

We present a new kinematic model for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using data from the \gaia\ Data Release 2 catalog. We identify a sample of astrometrically well-behaved red giant (RG) stars belonging to the SMC and cross-match with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 Paul Zivick , Nitya Kallivayalil , Roeland P. van der Marel

The proper motions of 15 nearby (d < 1 kpc) open clusters were recalculated using data from the UCAC4 catalog. Only evolved or main sequence stars inside a certain radius from the center of the cluster were used. The results differ…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-22 Alexander Kurtenkov , Nadezhda Dimitrova , Alexander Atanasov , Teodor D. Aleksiev

The XPM-1.0 is the regular version of the XPM catalogue. In comparison with XPM the astrometric catalogue of about 280 millions stars covering entire sky from -90 to +90 degrees in declination and in the magnitude range 10^m<B<22^m is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 P. N. Fedorov , V. S. Akhmetov , V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

We present stellar proper motions in the Galactic bulge from the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Search (SWEEPS) project using ACS/WFC on HST. Proper motions are extracted for more than 180,000 objects, with >81,000 measured to…

We present a catalog of relative proper motions for 368,787 stars in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), based on a dedicated two-epoch survey with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and supplemented with proper motions…

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

We measure the absolute proper motion of Leo I using a WFPC2/HST data set that spans up to 10 years, to date the longest time baseline utilized for this satellite. The measurement relies on ~ 2300 Leo I stars located near the center of…

We present the first proper motion study of M10 (NGC6254). Absolute proper motions of about 532 stars in the field of the globular cluster M10 were determined with respect to Hipparcos and ACT reference stars. In addition to photographic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Chen , M. Geffert , J. J. Wang , K. Reif , J. M. Braun

Young, OB-type candidates are identified in a ~7900 sq-deg. region encompassing the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC) periphery, the Bridge, part of the Magellanic Stream (MS) and Leading Arm (LA). Selection is based on UV,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Katherine Vieira , Terrence M. Girard , William F. van Altena

A new all-sky catalog of stars with proper motions pm>0.15"/yr is presented. The catalog is largely a product of the SUPERBLINK survey, a data-mining initiative in which the entire Digitized Sky Surveys are searched for moving stellar…