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We computed proper motions of a selected sample of globular clusters projected on the central bulge, employing CCD images gathered along the last 25 years at the ESO-NTT, ESO-Danish and HST telescopes. We presented a method to derive their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 L. J. Rossi , S. Ortolani , B. Barbuy , E. Bica , A. Bonfanti

Aims. This is the second in a series of papers that attempt to unveil the kinematic structure of the Galactic bulge through studying radial velocities and proper motions. We report here ~15000 new proper motions for three low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Mario Soto , Hugo Zeballos , Konrad Kuijken , R. Michael Rich , Andrea Kunder , Tri Astraatmadja

In this study, we present the construction of a new proper motion catalog utilizing the photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) imaging surveys, with a median time baseline…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-18 Yun-Ao Xiao , Hu Zou , Xin Xu , Lu Feng , Wei-Jian Guo , Wen-Xiong Li , Shu-Fei Liu , Zhi-Xia Shen , Gaurav Singh , Ji-Peng Sui , Jia-Li Wang , Sui-Jian Xue

With a high value of heliocentric radial velocity, a retrograde orbit, and being suspected to have an extragalactic origin, NGC 3201 is an interesting globular cluster for kinematical studies. Our purpose is to calculate the relative proper…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Devesh P. Sariya , Ing-Guey Jiang , R. K. S. Yadav

We use data from the U.S. Naval Observatory fourth CCD Astrograph Catalog (UCAC4) in combination with photometry from the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey (APASS) and Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) to identify stars within 25 pc of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Charlie Finch , Norbert Zacharias , John Subasavage , Todd Henry , Adric Riedel

In this paper we present surveys of two open clusters using photometry and accurate astrometry from the SuperCOSMOS microdensitometer. These use plates taken by the Palomar Oschin Schmidt Telescope giving a wide field ($5^{\circ}$ from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. R. Deacon , N. C. Hambly

Stars in open clusters are powerful probes of the intervening Galactic magnetic field, via background starlight polarimetry, because they provide constraints on the magnetic field distances. We use 2MASS photometric data for a sample of 31…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Sadia Hoq , Dan Clemens

We outline an approach yielding proper motions with higher precision than exists in present catalogs for a sample of stars in the Kepler field. To increase proper motion precision we combine first moment centroids of Kepler pixel data from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 G. Fritz Benedict , Angelle M. Tanner , Phillip A. Cargile , David R. Ciardi

We consider open star clusters (OSCs) with the proper motions, parallaxes, and line-of-sight velocities calculated by various authors from Gaia DR2 data. The distance scale factor has been found by analyzing the separate solutions of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-30 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

We collected radial velocities of more than 50.000 individual stars in 156 Galactic globular clusters (GGC) and matched them with HST photometry and Gaia DR2 proper motions. This allowed us to derive the GGC's mean proper motions and space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Michael Hilker , Holger Baumgardt , Antonio Sollima , Andrea Bellini

We present the first study of high-precision internal proper motions (PMs) in a large sample of globular clusters, based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data obtained over the past decade with the ACS/WFC, ACS/HRC, and WFC3/UVIS…

The Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is the nearest site of ongoing massive star formation, which allows us to study the kinematics and dynamics of the region in detail and constrain star formation theories. Using HST ACS/WFPC2/WFC3IR and Keck II…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Dongwon Kim , Jessica R. Lu , Quinn Konopacky , Laurie Chu , Elizabeth Toller , Jay Anderson , Christopher A. Theissen , Mark R. Morris

The fourth United States Naval Observatory (USNO) CCD Astrograph Catalog, UCAC4 was released in August 2012 (double-sided DVD and CDS data center Vizier catalog I/322). It is the final release in this series and contains over 113 million…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Norbert Zacharias , Charlie Finch , Terry Girard , Arne Henden , Jennifer Bartlett , Dave Monet , Marion Zacharias

A sub-sampled deconvolution technique for crowded field photometry with the HST WFPC2 instrument was proposed by Butler (2000) and applied to search for optical counterparts to pulsars in globular clusters (Golden et al. 2001). Simulations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-05 Navtej Singh , Lisa-Marie Browne , Ray Butler

The Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) subset of the first Gaia catalogue contains an unprecedented sample of proper motions and parallaxes for two million stars brighter than G~12 mag. We take advantage of the full astrometric solution…

Open clusters are known as excellent tracers of the structure and chemical evolution of the Galactic disk, however, the accuracy and reliability of open cluster parameters is poorly known. In recent years, several studies aimed to present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Netopil , E. Paunzen , G. Carraro

We present a Catalog of high proper motion (HPM) stars detected in the foreground of central parts of the Magellanic Clouds. The Catalog contains 2161 objects in the 4.5 square degree area towards the LMC, and 892 HPM stars in the 2.4…

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

We present kinematical analyses of 22 Galactic globular clusters using the Hubble Space Telescope proper motion (HSTPROMO) catalogues recently presented in Bellini et al. (2014). For most clusters, this is the first proper-motion study ever…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Laura L. Watkins , Roeland P. van der Marel , Andrea Bellini , Jay Anderson

Astrometric positions of moving objects in the Solar System have been measured using a variety of star catalogs in the past. Previous work has shown that systematic errors in star catalogs can affect the accuracy of astrometric…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-26 Siegfried Eggl , Davide Farnocchia , Alan B. Chamberlin , Steven R. Chesley