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Using nearly 230,000 red clump (RC) stars selected from LAMOST and Gaia, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the stellar age-velocity dispersion relations (AVRs) for various disk populations, within 5.0 $\leq$ $R$ $\leq$ 15.0 kpc and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-07 Weixiang Sun , Han Shen , Biwei Jiang , Xiaowei Liu

We consider how the gravity of the Galactic disk and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) modifies the radial motions of hypervelocity stars (HVSs) ejected from the Galactic Center. For typical HVSs ejected towards low (high) Galactic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-19 Scott J Kenyon , Benjamin C. Bromley , Warren R. Brown , Margaret J. Geller

We present the 21-cm rotation curve of the nearby galaxy M33 out to a galactocentric distance of 16 kpc (13 disk scale-lengths). The rotation curve keeps rising out to the last measured point and implies a dark halo mass larger than 5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Edvige Corbelli , Paolo Salucci

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

Galactic disk warp has been widely characterized by stellar distributions and stellar kinematics but has not been traced by stellar chemistry. Here, we use a sample with over 170,000 red clump (RC) stars selected from LAMOST and APOGEE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-18 Weixiang Sun , Han Shen , Biwei Jiang , Xiaowei Liu

Open clusters (OCs) in the Galaxy are excellent probes for tracing the structure and evolution of the Galactic disk. We present an updated catalog of parameters for 1,145 OCs, estimated using the Gaia DR3 data earlier listed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 Geeta Rangwal , Aman Arya , Annapurni Subramaniam , Kulinder Pal Singh , Xiaowei Liu

We study the relation between the surface density of gas and star formation rate in twenty moderately-inclined, bulgeless disk galaxies (Sd-Sdm Hubble types) using CO(1-0) data from the IRAM 30m telescope, HI emission line data from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Linda C. Watson , Paul Martini , Ute Lisenfeld , Man-Hong Wong , Torsten Boeker , Eva Schinnerer

As thousands of new open clusters in the Galaxy have recently been reported with reddening or extinction information, we map the distribution and properties of the Galaxy's interstellar material in the Galactic disk as traced by these open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-06 Yogesh C. Joshi

We have re-estimated the surface density of the Galactic disk in the solar neighborhood within $\pm$ 0.4 kpc of the Sun using parallaxes and proper motions of a kinematically and spatially unbiased sample of 1476 old bright red giant stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. I. Korchagin , T. M. Girard , T. V. Borkova , D. I. Dinescu , W. F. van Altena

Using a large sample of Main Sequence stars with 7-D measurements supplied by Gaia and SDSS, we study the kinematic properties of the local (within ~10 kpc from the Sun) stellar halo. We demonstrate that the halo's velocity ellipsoid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 V. Belokurov , D. Erkal , N. W. Evans , S. E. Koposov , A. J. Deason

This Letter presents a study of the geometry and motion of the Galactic disk using open clusters in the Gaia era. The findings suggest that the inclination of the Galactic disk increases gradually from the inner to the outer disk, with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-31 Zhihong He

Chemical Cartography, or mapping, of our Galaxy has the potential to fully transform our view of its structure and formation. In this work, we use chemical cartography to explore the metallicity distribution of OBAF-type disk stars from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Keith Hawkins

We have conducted a systematic search for stellar disk truncations in disk-like galaxies at intermediate redshift (z<1.1) using the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF) data. We use the position of the truncation as a direct estimator of the size…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ignacio Trujillo , Michael Pohlen

We use the largest open clusters catalogue in the post-Gaia era to provide the observational view of the Galactic disk. By compiling the physical parameters like age, distance, and kinematic information, we investigate the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Yogesh C. Joshi , Sagar Malhotra

We report the detection of the Galactic nuclear disc in line-of-sight kinematics of stars, measured with infrared spectroscopy from APOGEE. This stellar component of the nuclear disc has an extent and rotation velocity V ~ 120kms comparable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-21 Ralph Schönrich , Michael Aumer , Stuart E. Sale

With about 12 000 OB type stars selected from the LAMOST and Gaia survey, we study their 3 dimensional velocity distribution over the range of galactocentric radius from 6 to 15 kpc in the Galactic disk plane. A clear ripple pattern in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-01 Xinlun Cheng , Chao Liu , Shude Mao , Wenyuan Cui

We present a brief summary of our current results on the stellar distribution and population gradients of the resolved stars in the surroundings of ~50 nearby disk galaxies, observed with space- (Hubble & Spitzer) and ground-based…

Mapping of the HI disk of the isolated irregular galaxy DDO 154 with the C array of the Very Large Array and with the 3.2' upgraded Arecibo beam is presented. Our results show a truncation (or temporary drop) of the HI disk at a column…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Lyle Hoffman , E. E. Salpeter , Nathan J. Carle

We present the rotation velocities V and velocity dispersions sigma along the principal axes of seven elliptical galaxies less luminous than M_B= -19.5. These kinematics extend beyond the half-light radii for all systems in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hans-Walter Rix , Marcella Carollo , Ken Freeman

We employ an improved methodology to insert live stellar disks into high-resolution dark matter simulations of Milky Way sized halos, allowing us to investigate the fate of thin stellar disks in the tumultuous environment of cold dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Denis Yurin , Volker Springel