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In a disc galaxy the distribution of azimuthal components of velocity is very skew. In the past this skewness has been modelled by superposed Gaussians. We use dynamical arguments to derive an analytic formula that can be fitted to observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Ralph Schoenrich , James Binney

By taking advantage of the superb measurements of position and velocity for an unprecedented large number of stars provided in Gaia DR2, we have generated the first maps of the rotation velocity, $V_{\rm rot}$, and vertical velocity,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 Daisuke Kawata , Junichi Baba , Ioana Ciucă , Mark Cropper , Robert J. J. Grand , Jason A. S. Hunt , George Seabroke

We report on the detection in the combined $Gaia$-DR1/RAVE data of a lack of disk stars in the solar neighbourhood with velocities close to zero angular momentum. We propose that this may be caused by the scattering of stars with very low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Jason A. S. Hunt , Jo Bovy , Raymond G. Carlberg

From the tangential velocities of stars all over the sky, one can, in a statistical way, infer their 3D velocity distribution. An application to Hipparcos data reveals rich structure in the planar stellar motions: there are several moving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Walter Dehnen

We model the local stellar velocity field using position and velocity measurements for 4M stars from the second data release of Gaia. We determine the components of the mean or bulk velocity in ~27k spatially-defined bins. Our assumption is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Patrick Nelson , Lawrence M. Widrow

We derive a new metallicity distribution of G dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood, using uvby photometry and up-to-date parallaxes. Our distribution comprises 287 G dwarfs within 25 pc from the Sun, and differs considerably from the classic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Helio J. Rocha-Pinto , Walter J. Maciel

The spatial distribution of stars in a disk of a galaxy can be described by a radial scale length and a vertical scale height. The ratio of these two scale parameters contains information on the axis ratio of the velocity ellipsoid, i.e.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. C. van der Kruit , R. de Grijs

We consider the process of stellar binaries tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole. For highly eccentric orbits, as one star is ejected from the three-body system, the companion remains bound to the black hole. Hypervelocity stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Elena M. Rossi , Shiho Kobayashi , Re'em Sari

Matter distribution models of the Milky Way galaxy are usually stationary, although there are known to be wave-like perturbations in the disc at $\sim10\%$ level of the total density. Modelling of the overall acceleration field by allowing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Rain Kipper , Peeter Tenjes , Elmo Tempel , Roberto de Propris

Measurements of radial velocity variations from the spectroscopic monitoring of stars and their companions are essential for a broad swath of astrophysics, providing access to the fundamental physical properties that dictate all phases of…

Star formation in the solar neighborhood is mainly traced by young stars in open clusters, associations and in the field, which can be identified by their X-ray emission. The determination of stellar parameters for the counterparts of X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-09 A. Frasca , P. Guillout , A. Klutsch , R. Freire Ferrero , E. Marilli , K. Biazzo , D. Gandolfi , D. Montes

Context. The statistical properties of binary stars are clues for understanding their formation process. A radial velocity survey was carried on amongst nearby G-type stars and the results were published in 1991. Aims. The survey of radial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Jean-Louis Halbwachs , Michel Mayor , Stéphane Udry

We study the number density distribution of a sample of K and M dwarf stars, matched North and South of the Galactic plane within a distance of 2 kpc from the sun, using observations from the Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Brian Yanny , Susan Gardner

We expand the Tsallis distribution in a Taylor series of powers of (q-1), where q is the Tsallis parameter, assuming q is very close to 1. This helps in studying the degree of deviation of transverse momentum spectra and other thermodynamic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-23 Trambak Bhattacharyya , Jean Cleymans , Arvind Khuntia , Pooja Pareek , Raghunath Sahoo

The effect of nonextensivity of self-gravitating systems on the Jeans criterion for gravitational instability is studied in the framework of Tsallis statistics. The nonextensivity is introduced in the Jeans problem by a generalized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-10 Jiulin Du

Binarity plays a crucial role in star formation and evolution. Consequently, identifying binary stars is essential to deepen our understanding of these processes. We propose a method to investigate the observed radial velocity distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-18 Stefano Rinaldi , María Claudia Ramírez-Tannus

We study the orbital evolution of wide binary stars in the solar neighborhood due to gravitational perturbations from passing stars. We include the effects of the Galactic tidal field and continue to follow the stars after they become…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-01-08 Yan-Fei Jiang , Scott Tremaine

We use $N$-body simulations to probe the early phases of the dynamical evolution of star-forming regions and focus on mass and velocity distributions of unbound stars. In this parameter space study, we vary the initial virial ratio and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-12 Christina Schoettler , Richard J. Parker , Becky Arnold , Liam P. Grimmett , Jos de Bruijne , Nicholas J. Wright

In the second part of this study and similarly with part one, the nonlinear analysis of the solar flares index is embedded in the non-extensive statistical theory of Tsallis [1]. The triplet of Tsallis, as well as the correlation dimension…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-04 L. P. Karakatsanis , G. P. Pavlos , M. N. Xenakis

The aim of this work is to contribute to the understanding of the stellar velocity distribution in the solar neighborhood (SN). We propose that the structures on the $U-V$ planes, known as the moving groups, can be mainly explained by the…