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The kinematical features of the Sagittarius (R=5.7 kpc), Carina (R=6.5 kpc), Cygnus (R=6.8 kpc), and Perseus (R=8.2 kpc) arm fragments suggest the existence of two spiral patterns rotating at different angular velocities in the Galaxy. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Mel'nik

Analyzing longitude-velocity diagrams (LVDs) in the CS(J=2-1) and H13CN(J=1-0) molecular lines from the internal release data of the ALMA Central-Molecular-Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) and in the 13CO (J=1-0) line from the Nobeyama…

The Milky Way spiral arms are well established from star counts as well as from the locus of molecular clouds and other young objects, however, they have only recently started to be observed from a kinematics point of view. Using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-15 Luis Martinez-Medina , Angeles Pérez-Villegas , Antonio Peimbert

We explore the three-dimensional structure of a sample of $\sim$ 16000 young giant stars in the Galactic disc out to $\sim$8 kpc in heliocentric distance. This population traces a thin disc with a local vertical scale height of $h_{Z \odot}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-14 E. Poggio , R. Drimmel , S. Khanna , R. Andrae , M. G. Lattanzi

We present results of the first extensive and deep CCD photometric survey carried out in the field of the open cluster Trumpler 27, an object in the constellation of Sagittarius not far from the Galaxy center. We look for young stars clumps…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Gabriel Perren , Rubén Vázquez , Giovanni Carraro

We consider a sample of Galactic classical Cepheids with highly accurate estimates of their distances taken from Skowron et al., where they were determined based on the period-luminosity relation. We have refined the geometric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-14 V. V. Bobylev

Here we fitted a 4-arm spiral structure to the more accurate data on global arm pitch angle and arm longitude tangents, to get the start of each spiral arm near the Galactic nucleus. We find that the tangent to the 'start of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-19 Jacques P Vallee

Context: In spiral galaxies, star formation tends to trace features of the spiral pattern, including arms, spurs, feathers, and branches. However, in our own Milky Way, it has been challenging to connect individual star-forming regions to…

Using the cross-matched data of Gaia EDR3 and the 2MASS Point Source Catalog, a sample of RC stars with parallax accuracies better than 20% is identified and used to reveal the nearby spiral pattern traced by old stars. As shown in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-01 Zehao Lin , Ye Xu , Ligang Hou , Dejian Liu , Yingjie Li , Chaojie Hao , Jingjing Li , Shuaibo Bian

We investigate the morphology and kinematics of the Galactic spiral structure based on a new sample of O- and early B-type stars. We select 6,858 highly confident OB star candidates from the combined data of the VST Photometric H$\alpha$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-11 Chen Bingqiu , Huang Yang , Hou Ligang , Tian Hao , Li Guangxing , Yuan Haibo , Wang Haifeng , Wang Chun , Tian Zhijia , Liu Xiaowei

Galactic orbits have been constructed over long time intervals for ten globular clusters located near the Galactic center. A model with an axially symmetric gravitational potential for the Galaxy was initially applied, after which a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-16 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

The Milky Way spiral arm dynamics is studied using the birth place of open clusters. We separately study the nearby spiral arms, and find evidence for multiple spiral sets. In particular, the Sagittarius-Carina arm appears to be a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Smadar Naoz , Nir J. Shaviv

Molecular clouds at very high latitude ($b>60^{\circ}$) away from the Galactic plane are rare and in general are expected to be non-star-forming. However, we report the discovery of two embedded clusters (Camargo 438 and Camargo 439) within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-27 Denilso Camargo , Eduardo Bica , Charles Bonatto , Gustavo Salerno

We present the discovery of new star clusters in the central plane region ($|l|<30\deg$ and $|b|<6\deg$) of the Milky Way. In order to overcome the extinction problem and the spatial limit of previous surveys, we use the Wide-field Infrared…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-18 Jinhyuk Ryu , Myung Gyoon Lee

Classical and Type II Cepheids are used to reinvestigate specific properties of the Galaxy. A new Type II reddening-free Cepheid distance parameterization is formulated from LMC Cepheids (OGLE), with uncertainties typically no larger than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-18 Daniel J. Majaess , David G. Turner , David J. Lane

This work reports the discovery of three new globular clusters (GCs) towards the Galactic bulge - Camargo 1107, 1108, and 1109. The discovery was made using the WISE, 2MASS, VVV, and Gaia-DR2 photometry. The new findings are old (12.0-13.5…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-25 Denilso Camargo , Dante Minniti

We combine optical and radio observations to trace the spiral structure in the Third Quadrant of the Milky Way. The optical observations consist of a large sample of young open clusters and associations, whereas the radio observations…

We use observations from the ACS study of Galactic globular clusters to investigate the spatial distribution of the inner regions of the disrupting Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr). We combine previously published analyses of four…

Recent observational advances, such as Gaia DR3 GSP-Spec, have highlighted the potential of chemical abundances in tracing and revealing the structure of spiral arms. Building on these studies, we aim to trace the Milky Way's inner spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 C. Viscasillas Vázquez , L. Magrini , E. Spitoni , G. Cescutti , G. Tautvaišienė , A. Vasini , S. Randich , G. G. Sacco

We investigate the galaxy population in a field of the Perseus cluster that roughly covers the virial radius of the cluster. The galaxies were selected on Schmidt CCD images in B and H alpha in combination with SDSS images. We present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-12 H. Meusinger , C. Rudolf , B. Stecklum , M. Hoeft , R. Mauersberger , D. Apai