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Motivated by the recent discovery of 30 new millisecond pulsars in Terzan 5, made using the Green Bank Telescope's S-band receiver and the Pulsar Spigot spectrometer, we have set out to use the same observing system in a systematic search…

We present the results of a search for High Proper Motion (HPM) stars, i.e. the ones with \mu > 100 mas/yr, in the direction to the Magellanic Clouds. This sky area was not examined in detail as the high stellar density hampers efforts in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-12 R. Poleski , I. Soszynski , A. Udalski , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , L. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk

We present measurements of positions and relative proper motions in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We detail the construction of a single-epoch astrometric reference frame, based on specially-designed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 I. Platais , R. P. van der Marel , D. J. Lennon , J. Anderson , A. Bellini , E. Sabbi , H. Sana , L. R. Bedin

We used data from the near-infrared VISTA survey of the Magellanic Cloud system (VMC) to measure proper motions (PMs) of stars within the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The data analysed in this study comprise 26 VMC tiles, covering a total…

We analyse Gaia EDR3 and re-calibrated HST proper motion data from the core-collapsed and non core-collapsed globular clusters NGC 6397 and NGC 3201, respectively, with the Bayesian mass-orbit modelling code MAMPOSSt-PM. We use Bayesian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-13 Eduardo Vitral , Kyle Kremer , Mattia Libralato , Gary A. Mamon , Andrea Bellini

We present a detailed dynamical analysis of the projected density and kinematical data available for the globular cluster Omega Cen. We solve the spherical anisotropic Jeans equation to predict the projected profiles of the RMS velocity in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-01 Roeland P. van der Marel , Jay Anderson

The distance to the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is estimated using the rotational properties of its low-mass pre main-sequence (PMS) stars. Rotation periods, projected equatorial velocities and distance-dependent radius estimates are used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. D. Jeffries

The recent Gaia Data Release 1 of stellar parallaxes provides ample opportunity to find metal-poor main-sequence stars with precise parallaxes. We select 21 such stars with parallax uncertainties better than $\sigma_\pi/\pi\leq0.10$ and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 Erin M. O'Malley , Christina Gilligan , Brian Chaboyer

PHR 1315-6555 is a rare case of a Galactic Planetary Nebula that is a proven member of the Open Cluster AL 1. This allows its distance to be defined with precision and thus the accurate measurement of its physical characteristics along with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 V. Fragkou , Q. A. Parker , A. A. Zijlstra , R. Shaw , F. Lykou

We present the orbital and physical parameters of the detached eclipsing binary V1200~Centauri (ASAS~J135218-3837.3) from the analysis of spectroscopic observations and light curves from the \textit{All Sky Automated Survey} (ASAS) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 J. Coronado , K. G. Hełminiak , L. Vanzi , N. Espinoza , R. Brahm , A. Jordán , M. Catelán , M. Ratajczak , M. Konacki

Using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), we have obtained a direct trigonometric parallax for the nearest metal-poor globular cluster, NGC 6397. Although trigonometric parallaxes have been previously…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 T. M. Brown , S. Casertano , J. Strader , A. Riess , D. A. VandenBerg , D. R. Soderblom , J. Kalirai , R. Salinas

We constructed a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astro-photometric catalog of the central region of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 1261. This catalog, complemented with Gaia DR2 data sampling the external regions, has been used to estimate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 S. Raso , M. Libralato , A. Bellini , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni , M. Cadelano , C. Pallanca , E. Dalessandro , G. Piotto , J. Anderson , S. T. Sohn

We have used the BIMA array to image the Galactic Center with a 19-pointing mosaic in HCN(1-0), HCO+(1-0), and H 42-alpha emission with 5 km/s velocity resolution and 13'' x 4'' angular resolution. The 5' field includes the circumnuclear…

We homogeneously measured the elliptical shapes of 163 globular clusters (GCs) using the on-sky distribution of their cluster members and the third data release of the ESA mission Gaia (DR3). The astrometry enables the differentiation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-02 Mauricio Cruz Reyes , Richard I. Anderson

Photometry and kinematics of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC~5128 (Centaurus~A) based on planetary nebulae observations (Hui~\etal 1995) are used to build dynamical models which allow us to infer the presence of a dark matter halo. To this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mathieu , H. Dejonghe , X. Hui

The statistical analysis of gathered of astronomical objects (such as open cluster) are excellent tools to compute its parameters and to constrain the theory of its evolution. Here, we are represented detailed structural and membership…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-26 Gireesh C. Joshi , R. K. Tyagi

Over a two year period (1995-1997), we have conducted a diffraction-limited imaging study at 2.2 microns of the inner 6"x6" of the Galaxy's central stellar cluster using the Keck 10-m telescope. The K band images obtained reveal a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. M. Ghez , B. L. Klein , M. Morris , E. E. Becklin

The 3D velocities of M31 and M33 are important for understanding the evolution and cosmological context of the Local Group. Their most massive stars are detected by Gaia, and we use Data Release 2 (DR2) to determine the galaxy proper…

We present a catalog of high-precision proper motions in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), based on Treasury Program observations with the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) ACS/WFC camera. Our catalog contains 2,454 objects in the magnitude…

NGC 2168 (M35) serves as a fundamental benchmark for studying stellar evolution and dynamical environments at the transition between young and intermediate-age populations. We present a comprehensive analysis of the cluster's kinematic,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-25 Nasser M. Ahmed , Remziye Canbay , Deniz Cennet Çınar