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We use Gaia DR2 astrometric and line-of-sight velocity information combined with two sets of distances obtained with a Bayesian inference method to study the 3D velocity distribution in the Milky Way disc. We search for variations in all…

Aims: Highly resolved maps of the local Galactic dust are an important ingredient for sky emission models. In nearly the whole electromagnetic spectrum one can see imprints of dust, many of which originate from dust clouds within 300pc.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 R. H. Leike , T. A. Enßlin

We determine the velocity distribution and space density of a volume complete sample of A and F stars, using parallaxes and proper motions from the Hipparcos satellite. We use these data to solve for the gravitational potential vertically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Johan Holmberg , Chris Flynn

We determine the surface density of matter in the disc of the Galaxy at the solar position using K giant stars. The local space density and luminosity function of the giants is determined using parallaxes from the Hipparcos satellite; for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Johan Holmberg , Chris Flynn

The rotation curve of the Milky Way is commonly used to estimate the local dark matter density $\rho_{{\rm DM},\odot}$. However, the estimates are subject to the choice of the distribution of baryons needed in this type of studies. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 P. F. de Salas , K. Malhan , K. Freese , K. Hattori , M. Valluri

We describe a homogeneous catalog compilation of common proper motion stars based on Gaia DR2. A preliminary list of all pairs of stars within the radius of 100 pc around the Sun with a separation less than a parsec was compiled. Also, a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 S. A. Sapozhnikov , D. A. Kovaleva , O. Yu. Malkov , A. Yu. Sytov

We present an analysis of the kinematics of Galactic disc white dwarf stars in the Solar neighbourhood using data from Gaia Data Release 2. Selection of white dwarfs based on parallax provides the first large, kinematically unbiased sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-30 Nicholas Rowell , Mukremin Kilic

Gaia DR2 has delivered full-sky 6-D measurements for millions of stars, and the quest to understand the dynamics of our Galaxy has entered a new phase. Our aim is to reveal and characterize the kinematic sub-structure of the different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 P. Ramos , T. Antoja , F. Figueras

We search for the fastest stars in the subset of stars with radial velocity measurements of the second data release (DR2) of the European Space Agency mission Gaia. Starting from the observed positions, parallaxes, proper motions, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 T. Marchetti , E. M. Rossi , A. G. A. Brown

Context: In our Paper I, by using statistical deconvolution methods, extended kinematics maps of Gaia-DR2 data have been produced in a range of heliocentric distances that are a factor of two to three larger than those analyzed previously…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 M. Lopez-Corredoira , F. Garzon , H. -F. Wang , F. Sylos Labini , R. Nagy , Z. Chrobakova , J. Chang , B. Villarroel

We present a uniform catalog of accurate distances to local molecular clouds informed by the Gaia DR2 data release. Our methodology builds on that of Schlafly et al. (2014). First, we infer the distance and extinction to stars along…

We present and apply rigorous dynamical modeling with which we infer unprecedented constraints on the stellar and dark matter mass distribution within our Milky Way (MW), based on large sets of phase-space data on individual stars.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-05 Jo Bovy , Hans-Walter Rix

Using the censored catalog of 103,169 resolved Gaia DR3 binary stars with accurate astrometric data for each component, a new observable, object-specific parameter is computed for each pair: the projected orbital momentum. This parameter is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Valeri V. Makarov

Using the cross-matched data of Gaia DR2 and 2MASS Point Source Catalog, we investigated the surface density distribution of stars aged ~1 Gyr in the thin disk in the range of 90{\deg} <= l <= 270{\deg}. We selected 4,654 stars above the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-11 Yusuke Miyachi , Nobuyuki Sakai , Daisuke Kawata , Junichi Baba , Mareki Honma , Noriyuki Matsunaga , Kenta Fujisawa

In an earlier work, we demonstrated the effectiveness of Bayesian neural networks in estimating the missing line-of-sight velocities of Gaia stars, and published an accompanying catalogue of blind predictions for the line-of-sight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-13 Aneesh P. Naik , Axel Widmark

The distributions of normal matter and of dark matter in the Galaxy are coupled to each other as they both move in the common gravitational potential. In order to fully exploit this interplay and to derive the various properties of dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-16 Benjamin Burch , Ramanath Cowsik

We estimate the 3D density profile of the Galactic dark matter (DM) halo within $r \lesssim 30$ kpc from the Galactic centre by using the astrometric data for halo RR Lyrae stars from Gaia DR2. We model both the stellar halo distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Kohei Hattori , Monica Valluri , Eugene Vasiliev

CONTEXT. The Gaia Collaboration has used Gaia-DR2 sources with six-dimensional (6D) phase space information to derive kinematical maps within 5 kpc of the Sun, which is a reachable range for stars with relative error in distance lower than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 M. Lopez-Corredoira , F. Sylos Labini

The Gaia DR2 sample of short-timescale variable candidates results from the investigation of the first 22 months of Gaia photometry for a subsample of sources at the Gaia faint end. For this exercise, we limited ourselves to the case of…

The Gaia second data release contains high-accuracy astrometric measurements of thousands of solar system bodies. These measurements raise the possibility of determining asteroid masses by modeling scattering events between massive objects…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 Zachary Murray