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The gravitational potential of the Milky Way encodes information about the distribution of all matter -- including dark matter -- throughout the Galaxy. Gaia data release 3 has revealed a complex structure that necessitates flexible models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-05 Taavet Kalda , Gregory M. Green

Context. Most stars from in groups which with time disperse, building the field population of their host galaxy. In the Milky Way, open clusters have been continuously forming in the disk up to the present time, providing it with stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Pedro Guilherme-Garcia , Alberto Krone-Martins , André Moitinho

Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) of massive galaxies at ages below 1 Gyr pose a challenge to standard models of galaxy formation, which predict significantly longer assembly timescales. One possible explanation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-25 G. S. Karapetian , A. P. Mahtessian , L. E. Byzalov , M. A. Hovhannisyan , L. A. Mahtessian

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 spatial variations of the velocity field of local stars provide direct evidence of Galactic differential rotation. The local divergence, shear, and vorticity of the velocity field---the traditional Oort constants---can be measured based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-18 Jo Bovy

For Gaia DR2 (GDR2), 280 million spectra, collected by the RVS instrument on-board Gaia, were processed and median radial velocities were derived for 9.8 million sources brighter than Grvs = 12 mag. This paper describes the validation and…

We exploit a complete sample of 101\,810 {\it Gaia} DR2 giants, selected in Paper I in the space cylinder with a radius of 700 pc around the Sun and a height of $|Z|=1800$ pc, using the {\it Gaia} DR2 parallaxes, $G_\mathrm{BP}$ and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-30 George Gontcharov , Aleksandr Mosenkov

Over the past decade, the BeSSeL Survey and the VERA project have measured trigonometric parallaxes to approximately 250 massive, young stars using VLBI techniques. These sources trace spiral arms over nearly half of the Milky Way. What is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Mark J Reid

We use $Gaia$ eDR3 data and legacy spectroscopic surveys to map the Milky Way disc substructure towards the Galactic Anticenter at heliocentric distances $d\geq10\,\rm{kpc}$. We report the discovery of multiple previously undetected new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-27 Chervin F. P. Laporte , Sergey E. Koposov , Vasily Belokurov

New mass estimates and cumulative mass profiles with Bayesian credible regions (c.r.) for the Milky Way (MW) are found using the Galactic Mass Estimator (GME) code and dwarf galaxy (DG) kinematic data from multiple sources. GME takes a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-26 Anika Slizewski , Xander Dufresne , Keslen Murdock , Gwendolyn Eadie , Robyn Sanderson , Andrew Wetzel , Mario Juric

Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results for 1.812 billion sources in the magnitude range G = 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite during the first 34 months of its operational…

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

For more than fifty years, astronomers have mapped the neutral hydrogen gas in the Galaxy assuming kinematically derived distances. We employ the distances of nearby young stars, which trace the gas from which they formed, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-09 Peter Craig , Sukanya Chakrabarti , Alexander R. Pettitt , Robyn Sanderson , Erik Rosolowsky

We have selected a sample of 326 young $(\log t<8)$ open star clusters with the proper motions and distances calculated by various authors from Gaia DR2 data. The mean values of their line-of-sight velocities have also been taken from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-25 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

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 morphology and kinematics of the spiral structure of the Milky Way is a long-standing problem in astrophysics. In this review we firstly summarize various methods with different tracers used to solve this puzzle. The astrometry of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Ye Xu , Ligang Hou , Yuanwei Wu

The third Gaia data release is published in two stages. The early part, Gaia EDR3, gives very precise astrometric and photometric properties for nearly two billion sources together with seven million radial velocities from Gaia DR2. The…

We derive the vertical velocities of disk stars in the range of Galactocentric radii of R=5-16 kpc within 2 kpc in height from the Galactic plane. This kinematic information is connected to dynamical aspects in the formation and evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-10 M. Lopez-Corredoira , H. Abedi , F. Garzon , F. Figueras

RoadMapping is a dynamical modeling machinery developed to constrain the Milky Way's (MW) gravitational potential by simultaneously fitting an axisymmetric parametrized potential and an action-based orbit distribution function (DF) to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-26 Wilma H. Trick , Jo Bovy , Elena D'Onghia , Hans-Walter Rix

We compare dynamical mass estimates based on spatially extended stellar and ionized gas kinematics ($\mathrm{M_{dyn,*}}$ and $\mathrm{M_{dyn,eml}}$, respectively) of 157 star forming galaxies at $0.6\leq z<1$. Compared to $z\sim0$, these…