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We present the first detailed 3D kinematic analysis of a sample of 3133 white dwarfs that use Gaia astrometry plus radial velocities, which were measured either by Gaia or by ground based spectroscopic observations. The sample includes…

Aims: We study the relations between stellar kinematics and chemical abundances of a large sample of RAVE giants in search for selection criteria needed for disentangling different Galactic stellar populations. Methods: We select a sample…

(Abridged) We analyze chemical and kinematical properties of about 850 FGK solar neighborhood long-lived dwarfs observed with the HARPS high-resolution spectrograph. The stars in the sample have logg > 4 dex, 5000 < Teff < 6500 K, and -1.39…

The formation of galaxies can be understood in terms of the assembly patterns of each type of galactic component. To perform this kind of analysis, is necessary to define some criteria to separate those components. Decomposition methods…

In the last years, stellar migration in galactic discs has been the subject of several investigations. However, its impact on the chemical evolution of the Milky Way still needs to be fully quantified. In this paper, we aim at imposing some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Spitoni , D. Romano , F. Matteucci , L. Ciotti

Recent observational studies have uncovered a small number of very metal-poor stars with cold kinematics in the Galactic disc and bulge. However, their origins remain enigmatic. We select a total of 138 Milky Way (MW) analogs from the TNG50…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Diego Sotillo-Ramos , Maria Bergemann , Jennifer K. S. Friske , Annalisa Pillepich

We present the first results of a study where we determine the metallicity distribution function in the Galactic disks as a function of height above the Galactic plane. Observations in the Stromgren photometric system enables us to identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-11 Anna S. Arnadottir , Sofia Feltzing , Ingemar Lundstrom

By selecting in the RAVE-DR4 survey the stars located between 1 and 2 kpc above the Galactic plane, we question the consistency of the simplest three-component model (thin disc, thick disc, halo) for the Milky Way. We confirm that the…

Although there is consensus that metal-rich stars in the Milky Way bulge are formed via secular evolution of the thin disc, the origin of their metal-poor counterparts is still under debate. Two different origins have been invoked for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Ana Gomez , Paola Di Matteo , Mathias Schultheis , Francesca Fragkoudi , Misha Haywood , Francoise Combes

The history of the Milky Way Galaxy is written in the properties of its stellar populations. Here we analyse stars observed as part of surveys of local dwarf spheroidal galaxies, but which from their kinematics are highly probable to be…

We have obtained high-resolution, high signal-to-noise spectra for 899 F and G dwarf stars in the Solar neighbourhood. The stars were selected on the basis of their kinematic properties to trace the thin and thick discs, the Hercules…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Bensby , S. Feltzing

We highlight some results from our detailed abundance analysis study of 703 kinematically selected F and G dwarf stars in the solar neighbourhood. The analysis is based on spectra of high-resolution (R=45000 to 110000) and high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Bensby , S. Feltzing

In this work, two new axisymmetric models for the Galactic mass distribution are presented. Motivated by recent results, these two models include the contribution of a stellar thin disc and of a thick disc, as massive as the thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Ektoras Pouliasis , Paola Di Matteo , Misha Haywood

The study of the Milky Way stellar discs in the context of galaxy formation is discussed. In particular we explore the properties of the Milky Way disc using a new sample of about 550 dwarf stars for which we have recently obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Feltzing , T. Bensby

Context. The presence of [$\alpha$/Fe]-[Fe/H] bi-modality in the Milky Way disc has animated the Galactic archaeology community since more than two decades. Aims. Our goal is to investigate the chemical, temporal, and kinematical structure…

We present the results of a large-scale proper motion study of the central ~36'x16' of the Milky Way, based on our high angular resolution GALACTICNUCLEUS survey (epoch 2015) combined with the HST Paschen-alpha survey (epoch 2008). Our…

We present a kinematic analysis of a sample of 23,908 G- and K-type dwarfs in the Galactic disk. Based on the $\alpha$-abundance ratio, [$\alpha$/Fe], we separated our sample into low-$\alpha$ thin-disk and high-$\alpha$ thick-disk stars.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Doo Ri Han , Young Sun Lee , Young Kwang Kim , Timothy C. Beers

We use the Stripe 82 proper motion catalogue of Bramich et al. (2008) to study the kinematics of Galactic disk stars in the solar neighborhood. We select samples of dwarf stars with reliable spectra and proper motions. They have cylindrical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-08 Martin C. Smith , S. Hannah Whiteoak , N. W. Evans

We study the metallicity distribution and kinematic properties of 4,680 A/F/G/K-type giant stars with $|z|>$ 5 kpc selected from the LAMOST spectroscopic survey. The metallicity distribution of giant stars with 5 $<|z|\leqslant$ 15 kpc can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 Shuai Liu , Cuihua Du , Heidi Jo Newberg , Yuqin Chen , Zhenyu Wu , Jun Ma , Xu Zhou , Zihuang Cao , Yonghui Hou , Yuefei Wang , Yong Zhang

We have analysed the kinematics of a sample of 114 hot subdwarf stars, for 2/3 of which we present new proper motions, spectroscopic and photometric data. The vast majority of the stars show a kinematic behaviour that is similar to that of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Altmann , H. Edelmann , K. S. de Boer