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The proper motions of stars in the outskirts of globular clusters are used to estimate cluster velocity dispersion profiles as far as possible within their tidal radii. We use individual color-magnitude diagrams to select high probability…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Raymond G. Carlberg , Carl J. Grillmair

A model for the mass in and around the Local Group previously used to fit redshifts of dwarf galaxies to their distances between 50 kpc and 2.6 Mpc under the condition of small and growing primeval departures from homogeneity is shown to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-16 P. J. E. Peebles

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

A new method for selecting stars in the Galactic bar based on 2MASS infrared photometry in combination with stellar proper motions from the Kharkiv XPM catalogue has been implemented. In accordance with this method, red clump and red giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-02-14 V. V. Bobylev , A. V. Mosenkov , A. T. Bajkova , G. A. Gontcharov

We present a detailed analysis of the kinematics of 112 stars that mostly comprise the high velocity S-cluster and orbit the super massive black hole SgrA* at the center of the Milky Way. For 39 of them orbital elements are known, for the…

Proper motions (PMs) are crucial to fully understand the internal dynamics of globular clusters (GCs). To that end, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Proper Motion (HSTPROMO) collaboration has constructed large, high-quality PM catalogues…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-31 Laura L. Watkins , Roeland P. van der Marel , Andrea Bellini , A. T. Baldwin , P. Bianchini , J. Anderson

The currently known Galactic globular cluster population extends out to a maximum galactocentric distance of $\sim$ 145 kpc, with the peculiarity that the outermost clusters predominantly have an inward velocity. Orbit averaging finds that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Jeremy J. Webb , Raymond G. Carlberg

Predictions from a Galactic Structure and Kinematic model are compared to the absolute proper-motions of about 30,000 randomly selected stars with $9 < B_{\rm J} \le 19$ derived from the Southern Proper-Motion Program (SPM) toward the South…

In this paper we report a new estimate of the absolute proper motion (PM) of the globular cluster NGC 5139 ($\omega$ Cen) as part of the HST large program GO-14118+14662. We analyzed a field 17 arcmin South-West of the center of $\omega$…

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

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

In this paper, we analyze 10 globular clusters in order to measure their rotational properties by using high precision radial velocity data from the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2 survey. Out of the 10 clusters we were able to successfully measure the…

(abridged) We have measured the absolute proper motions of nine low-latitude, inner Galaxy globular clusters, namely NGC 6273 (M 19), NGC 6284, NGC 6287, NGC 6293, NGC 6333 (M 9), NGC 6342, NGC 6356, NGC 6388 and NGC 6441. These are the…

We present new measurements of the centers for 65 Milky Way globular clusters. Centers were determined by fitting ellipses to the density distribution within the inner $2\arcmin$ of the cluster center, and averaging the centers of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Ryan Goldsbury , Harvey B. Richer , Jay Anderson , Aaron Dotter , Ata Sarajedini , Kristin Woodley

We present proper motion measurements for more than $0.55$ million main-sequence stars, by comparing astrometric positions of matched stars between the multi-band imaging datasets from the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Survey and the SDSS Stripe…

We present stellar proper motions in the Galactic bulge from the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Search (SWEEPS) project using ACS/WFC on HST. Proper motions are extracted for more than 180,000 objects, with >81,000 measured to…

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

We present the first measurement of the proper motion of the young, compact Arches cluster near the Galactic center from near-infrared adaptive optics (AO) data taken with the recently commissioned laser-guide star (LGS) at the Keck 10-m…

In this work we present a method to identify possible members of globular clusters using data from Gaia DR2. The method consists of two stages: the first one based on a clustering algorithm, and the second one based on the analysis of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 I. H. Bustos Fierro , J. H. Calderón

A proper motion study of a field of 20' x 20' inside Plaut's low extinction window (l,b)=(0 deg,-8 deg), has been completed. Relative proper motions and photographic BV photometry have been derived for ~21,000 stars reaching to V~20.5 mag,…