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We present a three dimensional velocity analysis of Milky Way disk kinematics using LAMOST K giant stars and the GPS1 proper motion catalogue. We find that Galactic disk stars near the anticenter direction (in the range of Galactocentric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-03 Haifeng Wang , Martín López-Corredoira , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Licai Deng

The Milky Way disc presents a warp, a flare, lopsidedness and other deviations from a purely axisymmetrical double exponential density component, both for the stellar and the gas component. Moreover, recent large-scale extended kinematics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-07 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

The variation of the kinematical properties of the Galactic thick disk with Galactic height Z are studied by means of 412 red giants observed in the direction of the south Galactic pole up to 4.5 kpc from the plane. We confirm the non-null…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 C. Moni Bidin , G. Carraro , R. A. Mendez

We examine the vertical structure of Galactic disk kinematics over a Galactocentric radial distance range of $R=5-15$ $\rm{kpc}$ and up to $3$ $\rm{kpc}$ away from the Galactic plane, using the K-type giants surveyed by LAMOST. Based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-25 Ping-Jie Ding , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Chengqun Yang , Gang Zhao , Lan Zhang , Zi Zhu

High redshift disc galaxies are more gas rich, clumpier, and more turbulent than local Universe galaxies. This early era of galaxy formation imprints the distribution and kinematics of the stars that we observe today, but it is not yet well…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Floor van Donkelaar , Oscar Agertz , Florent Renaud

We investigated the space velocity components of 6610 red clump (RC) stars in terms of vertical distance, Galactocentric radial distance and Galactic longitude. Stellar velocity vectors are corrected for differential rotation of the Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Karaali , S. Bilir , S. Ak , E. Yaz Gokce , O. Onal , T. Ak

In the Milky Way, the thick disk can be defined using individual stellar abundances, kinematics, or age; or geometrically, as stars high above the mid-plane. In nearby galaxies, where only a geometric definition can be used, thick disks…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-09 Marie Martig , Ivan Minchev , Melissa Ness , Morgan Fouesneau , Hans-Walter Rix

The Milky Way is a unique laboratory, where stellar properties can be measured and analyzed in detail. In particular, stars in the older populations encode information on the mechanisms that led to the formation of our Galaxy. In this…

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 a kinematic analysis of the Small Magellanic Cloud using 3700 spectra extracted from the European Southern Observatory archive. We used data from Gaia and near-infrared photometry to select stellar populations and discard…

We derive the stellar rotation curve of the Galaxy in the range of Galactocentric radii of R=4-16 kpc at different vertical heights from the Galactic plane of z between -2 and +2 kpc. We used the PPMXL survey, which contains the USNO-B1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

Based on published sources, we have created a kinematic database on 220 massive (>10 solar masses) young Galactic star systems located within <3 kpc of the Sun. Out of them, approximately 100 objects are spectroscopic binary and multiple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-08 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

Average stellar orbits of the Galactic disk may have some small intrinsic ellipticity which breaks the exact axisymmetry and there may also be some migration of stars inwards or outwards. Both phenomena can be detected through kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 M. Lopez-Corredoira , C. Gonzalez-Fernandez

There are few warp kinematic models of the Galaxy able to characterise structure and kinematics. These models are necessary to study the lopsidedness of the warp and the twisting of the line-of-nodes of the stellar warp, already seen in gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 M. Romero-Gómez , C. Mateu , L. Aguilar , F. Figueras , A. Castro-Ginard

If the Galaxy is axisymmetric and in dynamical equilibrium, we expect negligible fluctuations in the residual line-of-sight velocity field. Recent results using the \apg{} survey find significant fluctuations in velocity for stars in the…

The tilt of the velocity ellipsoid is a helpful tracer of the gravitational potential of the Milky Way. In this paper, we use nearly 140,000 RC stars selected from the LAMOST and Gaia to make a detailed analysis of the tilt of the velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-25 Weixiang Sun , Han Shen , Xiaowei Liu

Age-metallicity relation for the Galactic disc is a crucial tool and to constrain the Galactic chemical evolution models. We investigate the age-metallicity relation of the Galactic disc using the red giant branch stars in the Solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-01 S. Doner , S. Ak , O. Onal Tas , O. Plevne

The Milky Way has distinct structural stellar components linked to its formation and subsequent evolution, but disentangling them is nontrivial. With the recent availability of high-quality data for a large numbers of stars in the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-05 Amalie Stokholm , Víctor Aguirre Børsen-Koch , Dennis Stello , Marc Hon , Claudia Reyes

We present new kinematic measurements and modeling of a sample of 116 young stars in the central parsec of the Galaxy in order to investigate the properties of the young stellar disk. The measurements were derived from a combination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Sylvana Yelda , Andrea M. Ghez , Jessica R. Lu , Tuan Do , Leo Meyer , Mark R. Morris , Keith Matthews

(Abridged) The present-day spatial and kinematic distribution of stars in the Milky Way provides key constraints on its internal dynamics and evolutionary history. We select stars that are more metal-rich than the interstellar medium (ISM)…