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We present proper motions obtained from a dual frequency, six-epoch, VLBA polarization experiment monitoring a sample of 12 blazars. The observations were made at 15 GHz and 22 GHz at bi-monthly intervals over 1996. Ten of the eleven…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. C. Homan , R. Ojha , J. F. C. Wardle , D. H. Roberts , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , P. A. Hughes

We conduct a thorough study into the feasibility of measuring large-scale correlated proper motions of galaxies with astrometric surveys. We introduce a harmonic formalism for analysing proper motions and their correlation functions on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-14 Alex Hall

A fraction of the XMM-Newton/EPIC FOV is obscured by the dysfunctional (i.e. bad) pixels. The fraction varies between different EPIC instruments in a given observation. These complications affect the analysis of extended X-ray sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 J. Nevalainen , I. Valtchahov , R. D. Saxton , S. Molendi

Advances in optical astrometry allow us to infer the non-radial kinematic structure of the Universe directly from observations. Here I use a supervised machine learning neural network method to predict 1.57 million redshifts based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-03 Valeri V. Makarov

By exploiting two ACS/HST datasets separated by a temporal baseline of ~7 years, we have determined the relative stellar proper motions (providing membership) and the absolute proper motion of the Galactic globular cluster M71. The absolute…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 M. Cadelano , E. Dalessandro , F. R. Ferraro , P. Miocchi , B. Lanzoni , C. Pallanca , D. Massari

Proper motions with values >10 mas/yr or <-10 mas/yr have been extracted from the USNO-B1.0 and Tycho II catalogues for all Lanning UV-bright sources identified in the Sandage Two-color Survey of the Galactic Plane and presented in Papers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Howard H. Lanning , Sébastien Lépine

The UKIDSS Large Area Survey (LAS) began in 2005, with the start of the UKIDSS program as a 7 year effort to survey roughly 4000 deg$^2$ at high galactic latitudes in Y, J, H and K bands. The survey also included a significant quantity of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-08 L. Smith , P. W. Lucas , B. Burningham , H. R. A. Jones , R. L. Smart , A. H. Andrei , S. Catalan , D. Pinfield

In this, the third in a series of three papers concerning the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey, we describe the astrometric properties of the database. We describe the algorithms employed in the derivation of the astrometric parameters of the data,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 Nigel Hambly , Clive Davenhall , Mike Irwin , Harvey MacGillivray

As a by-product of high-precision, ultra-deep stellar photometry in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6397 with the Hubble Space Telescope, we are able to measure a large population of background galaxies whose images are nearly point-like.…

We describe the target selection algorithm for the low latitude disk portion of the LAMOST Pilot Survey, which aims to test systems in preparation for the LAMOST spectroscopic survey. We use the PPMXL (Roeser et al. 2010) astrometric…

The predictions from a Galactic Structure and Kinematic model code are compared to the color counts and absolute proper-motions derived from the Southern Proper-Motion survey covering more than 700 $\deg^2$ toward the South Galactic Pole in…

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…

We present a proper motion measurement for the halo globular cluster Pyxis, using HST/ACS data as the first epoch, and GeMS/GSAOI Adaptive Optics data as the second, separated by a baseline of about 5 years. This is both the first…

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 first proper motion measurements for the galaxy M31. We obtained new V-band imaging data with the HST ACS/WFC and WFC3/UVIS of a spheroid field near the minor axis, an outer disk field along the major axis, and a field on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-22 Sangmo Tony Sohn , Jay Anderson , Roeland P. van der Marel

We have determined positions, proper motions, and parallaxes of $77$ millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from $\sim3$ years of MeerKAT radio telescope observations. Our timing and noise analyses enable us to measure $35$ significant parallaxes ($12$…

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…

We investigate in detail the probability distribution function (pdf) of the proper-motion measurement errors in the SDSS+USNO-B proper-motion catalog of \citet{mun04} using clean quasar samples. The pdf of the errors is well-represented by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Ruobing Dong , James Gunn , Gillian Knapp , Constance Rockosi , Michael Blanton

We present a catalog of over 6.2 million stars with measured proper motions. All these stars are observed in the direction of the Magellanic Clouds within the brightness range 12 < I < 19 mag. Based on these proper motions about 440 000…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-26 R. Poleski , I. Soszyński , A. Udalski , M. K. Szymański , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzyński , Ł. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk

Proper motions are computed and collected in a catalog using the Hipparcos positions (epoch 1991.25) and URAT1 positions (epoch 2012.3 to 2014.6). The goal is to obtain a significant improvement on the proper motion accuracy of single stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Julien Frouard , Bryan N. Dorland , Valeri V. Makarov , Norbert Zacharias , Charlie T. Finch