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A new kinematic and dynamic study of the halo of the giant elliptical galaxy, NGC 5128, is presented. From a spectroscopically confirmed sample of 340 globular clusters and 780 planetary nebulae, the rotation amplitude, rotation axis,…

We report the discovery of an extended globular cluster in a halo field in Centaurus A (NGC 5128), situated $\sim 38\kpc$ from the centre of that galaxy, imaged with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Mouhcine , W. E. Harris , R. Ibata , M. Rejkuba

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

We present mean proper motions and membership probabilities of individual stars for optically visible open clusters, which have been determined using data from the UCAC5 catalog. This follows our previous studies with the UCAC2 and UCAC4…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 W. S. Dias , H. Monteiro , M. Assafin

We present spectral energy distribution modelling of 6875 stars in omega Centauri, obtaining stellar luminosities and temperatures by fitting literature photometry to state-of-the-art MARCS stellar models. By comparison to four different…

We have measured the absolute proper motions of four low-latitude, inner-Galaxy globular clusters. These clusters are: NGC 6266 (M62), NGC 6304, NGC 6316 and NGC 6723. The proper motions are on the Hipparcos system, as no background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dana I. Dinescu , Terrence M. Girard , William F. van Altena , Carlos Lopez

We analyze JWST observations of the central region of the globular cluster $\omega$ Centauri (NGC 5139, $\omega$ Cen hereafter), around the position of the candidate IMBH inferred by \cite{haberle_fast-moving_2024} from the motion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-23 Steven Chen , Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev , Hui Yang , Denis Cioffi , Maximilian Häberle , Anil Seth

We use kinematic data of proper motions from Gaia of forty-two globular and open clusters from Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to explore the possibility of them having extragalactic origins. We find the difference between the proper motions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-11 Tamojeet Roychowdhury , Navdha Bhalla

The authors of the article set out to investigate the motion of Globular Star Clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way relative to the plane and center of the Galaxy. For this study, we used data from 164 Galactic Globular Clusters derived from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-25 G. S. Karapetian , A. P. Mahtessian , M. A. Hovhannisyan , L. A. Mahtessian

We measure the absolute proper motion of Andromeda III using ACS/WFC and WFPC2 exposures spanning an unprecedented 22-year time baseline. The WFPC2 exposures have been processed using a deep-learning centering procedure recently developed…

We present X-ray proper motion (PM) measurements of 19 pulsars using new and archival data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, including pulsar wind trails and X-ray filaments. Precise X-ray PMs are often limited by uncertainties in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-23 Jack T. Dinsmore , Roger W. Romani

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

We have measured the proper motion (PM) and kinematics of the ansae in NGC 7009 using high dispersion echelle spectra and archive narrow band HST images. Assuming that the ansae are moving at equal and opposite velocities from the central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-26 Rodrigo Fernandez M. , Hektor Monteiro , Hugo E. Schwarz

Relative proper motions and cluster membership probabilities of 30 stars within an area of 14' of diameter centered in the open cluster NGC1662 (\alpha=04^{\rm h}48^{\rm m}, \delta=+10^{\rm o}56') are determined by combining positions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. S. Dias , R. Boczko , J. I. B. Camargo , R. Teixeira , P. Benevides-Soares

$\omega$ Centauri is considered the most massive globular cluster of the Milky Way and likely the former nuclear star cluster of a galaxy accreted by the Milky Way. It is speculated to contain an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) from…

We report the first results from an imaging program with the ACS camera on HST designed to measure the structural characteristics of a wide range of globular clusters in NGC 5128, the nearest giant elliptical galaxy. From 12 ACS/WFC fields,…

Multi-epoch observations with ACS and WFC3 on HST provide a unique and comprehensive probe of stellar dynamics within 47 Tucanae. We confront analytic models of the globular cluster with the observed stellar proper motions that probe along…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 J. Heyl , I. Caiazzo , H. Richer , J. Anderson , J. Kalirai , J. Parada

The peripheral regions of globular clusters (GCs) are extremely challenging to study due to their low surface brightness nature and the dominance of Milky Way contaminant populations along their sightlines. We have developed a probabilistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Pete B. Kuzma , Annette M. N. Ferguson , Jorge Peñarrubia

Absolute proper motions, their corresponding errors and membership probabilities of 501 stars in the intermediate-age open cluster NGC2548 region are determined from MAMA measurements of 10 photographic plates. The plates have the maximum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Z. Y. Wu , K. P. Tian , L. Balaguer-Nunez , C. Jordi , J. L. Zhao , J. Guibert

We present a new reduction pipeline for the VIRCAM@VISTA detector and describe the method developed to obtain high-precision astrometry with the VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) data set. We derive an accurate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Libralato , A. Bellini , L. R. Bedin , J. Anderson , G. Piotto , V. Nascimbeni , I. Platais , D. Minniti , M. Zoccali