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The kinematical properties of the Galactic Thick Disk are studied using absolute proper motions from the SPM3 Catalog and 2MASS near-infrared photometry for a sample of ~1200 red giants in the direction of the South Galactic Pole. The…

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We investigated the space velocity components of 6610 red clump (RC) stars in terms of vertical distance, Galactocentric radial distance and Galactic longitude. Stellar velocity vectors are corrected for differential rotation of the Galaxy…

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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…

We study the kinematics of the Galactic thin and thick disk populations using stars from the RAVE survey's second data release together with distance estimates from Breddels et al. (2009). The velocity distribution exhibits the expected…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Yüksel Karatas , Rainer J. Klement

Based on the LAMOST survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we use low-resolution spectra of 130,043 F/G-type dwarf stars to study the kinematics and metallicity properties of the Galactic disk. Our study shows that the stars with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-12 Yingjie Jing , Cuihua Du , Jiayin Gu , Yunpeng Jia , Xiyan Peng , Yuqin Chen , Zhenyu Wu , Jun Ma , Xu Zhou , Zihuang Cao , Yonghui Hou , Yuefei Wang , Yong Zhang

Nearly 400 Tycho-2 stars have been observed in a 720 square degree field in the direction of the North Galactic Pole with the high resolution echelle spectrograph ELODIE. Absolute magnitudes, effective temperatures, gravities and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Soubiran , O. Bienaymé , A. Siebert

We explored a method to reconstruct the distribution function of the Galactic thick disc within the action space where nearby thick-disc stars are distributed. By applying this method to 127 chemically-selected thick-disc stars in the Solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-30 Kohei Hattori , Gerard Gilmore

We analyze a new kinematic survey that includes accurate proper motions derived from SDSS DR7 positions, combined with multi-epoch measurements from the GSC-II database. By means of the SDSS spectro-photometric data (effective temperature,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Spagna , M. G. Lattanzi , P. Re Fiorentin , R. L. Smart

We investigate radial and vertical metallicity gradients for a sample of red clump stars from the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) Data Release 3. We select a total of 6781 stars, using a selection of colour, surface gravity and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Bilir , S. Karaali , S. Ak , O. Onal , N. D. Dagtekin , T. Yontan , G. Gilmore , G. M. Seabroke

We performed a spectroscopic survey of nearly 700 stars probing the galactic thick disc far from the solar neighbourhood towards the galactic coordinates (l~277, b~47). The derived effective temperatures, surface gravities and overall…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Kordopatis , A. Recio-Blanco , P. de Laverny , G. Gilmore , V. Hill , R. F. G. Wyse , A. Helmi , A. Bijaoui , M. Zoccali , O. Bienaymé

The stellar velocity ellipsoid of the solar neighbour is re-examined using intermediate-old mono-abundances stellar groups with high quality chemistry data together with parallaxes and proper motions from Gaia DR1. We find the average…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Borja Anguiano , Steven R. Majewski , Kenneth C. Freeman , Arik W. Mitschang , Martin C. Smith

We determined the chemical and kinematic properties of the Galactic thin and thick disk using a sample of 307,246 A/F/G/K-type giant stars from the LAMOST spectroscopic survey and Gaia DR2 survey. Our study found that the thick disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Yepeng Yan , Cuihua Du , Shuai Liu , Hefan Li , Jianrong Shi , Yuqin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhenyu Wu

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

This study is based on high quality astrometric and spectroscopic data from the most recent releases by Gaia and APOGEE. We select $58\,882$ thin and thick disk red giants, in the Galactocentric (cylindrical) distance range $5 < R < 13$~kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 Paola Re Fiorentin , Mario G. Lattanzi , Alessandro Spagna

We study the kinematics of a local sample of stars, located within a cylinder of 500 pc radius centered on the Sun, in the RAVE dataset. We find clear asymmetries in the $v_R$-$v_\phi$ velocity distributions of thin and thick disk stars:…

We investigate the kinematics of red clump stars in the Solar Neighbourhood by combining data from TGAS and RAVE to constrain the local dark matter density. After calibrating the absolute magnitude of red clump stars, we characterize their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Jorrit H. J. Hagen , Amina Helmi

We confirm, quantify, and provide a table of the coherent velocity substructure of the Milky Way disk within 2 kpc of the Sun towards the Galactic anticenter, with 0.2 kpc resolution. We use the radial velocities of ~340,000 F-type stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 Alan N. Pearl , Heidi Jo Newberg , Jeffrey L. Carlin , R. Fiona Smith

We present the results of radial velocity measurements of 770 thick disk red giants toward the South Galactic Pole, vertically distributed from 0.5 kpc to 5 kpc with respect to the Galactic plane. We find a small gradient in the vertical…

We used red clump stars to measure the surface mass density of the Galactic disk in the solar neighbourhood. High resolution spectra of red clump stars towards the NGP have been obtained with the ELODIE spectrograph at OHP for Tycho-2…

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