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The large-scale magnetic field of our Galaxy can be probed in three dimensions using Faraday rotation of pulsar signals. We report on the determination of 223 rotation measures from polarization observations of relatively distant southern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , A. G. Lyne , G. J. Qiao , W. van Straten

We performed astrometric observations with the VLBA of WB89-437, an H2O maser source in the Outer spiral arm of the Galaxy. We measure an annual parallax of 0.167 +/- 0.006 mas, corresponding to a heliocentric distance of 6.0 +/- 0.2 kpc or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 K. Hachisuka , A. Brunthaler , K. M. Menten , M. J. Reid , Y. Hagiwara , N. Mochizuki

We have made measurements to determine the parallax and proper motion of the three 6.7-GHz methanol masers G305.200$+$0.019, G305.202$+$0.208 and G305.208$+$0.206. The combined parallax is found to be 0.25$\pm $0.05 mas, corresponding to a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 V Krishnan , S P Ellingsen , M J Reid , H E Bignall , J McCallum , C J Phillips , C Reynolds , J Stevens

We have obtained 63 rotation measures (RMs) from polarization observations of southern pulsars, of which 54 are new measurements and 3 are varied from previous values. The new pulsar RM data at high Galactic latitudes are mostly consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , G. J. Qiao

The density wave theory predicted some physical offsets among different tracers of star formation. To test this prediction, here we compiled data on 40 galaxies searched observationally for a physical offset between spiral arm tracers, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-21 Jacques P Vallee

We have discovered a clear sign of the disruption phase of the Perseus arm in the Milky Way using Cepheid variables, taking advantage of the accurately measured distances of Cepheids and the proper motions from Gaia Data Release 1. Both the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Junichi Baba , Daisuke Kawata , Noriyuki Matsunaga , Robert J. J. Grand , Jason A. S. Hunt

We report the results of the measurement of the trigonometric parallax of an H$_2$O maser source in \r22 with the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astrometry (VERA). The annual parallax was determined to be 0.314$\pm$0.070~mas, corresponding to a…

We present the results of determining the parameters of the spiral arms of the Galaxy using the stars Gaia DR3, whose absolute magnitude is $M_G$ < 4, and which allow tracing spiral arms at large distances from the Sun. As tracers of spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-29 S. I. Denyshchenko , P. N. Fedorov , V. S. Akhmetov , A. B. Velichko , A. M. Dmytrenko

We have examined the ratio between the integrated luminosity of massive young stellar objects detected by the Red MSX Source (RMS) survey and the mass of molecular clouds in the Galactic Ring Survey region, as a function of Galactocentric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 T. J. T. Moore , J. S. Urquhart , L. K. Morgan , M. A. Thompson

Radial velocities of 1726 candidate B- and A-type stars within 3deg of the Galactic center (GC) were estimated from FLAMES/VLT spectra in the range of 396-457 nm. The final sample was limited to 1507 stars with either Gaia DR2 parallaxes or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 P. Grosbøl , G. Carraro

Relations between star formation rates along the spiral arms and the velocities of gas inflow into the arms in grand-design galaxy NGC 628 were studied. We found that the radial distribution of average star formation rate in individual star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-08 Alexander S. Gusev , Firouz Sakhibov , Yury N. Efremov

Over 100 trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions for masers associated with young, high-mass stars have been measured with the BeSSeL Survey, a VLBA key science project, the EVN, and the Japanese VERA project. These measurements provide…

Studying the nature of spiral arms is essential for understanding the formation of the intricate disc structure of the Milky Way. The European Space Agency's Gaia mission has provided revolutionary observational data that have uncovered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-28 Natsuki Funakoshi , Noriyuki Matsunaga , Daisuke Kawata , Junichi Baba , Daisuke Taniguchi , Michiko Fujii

We present a study of the Milky Way disk and halo magnetic field, determined from observations of Faraday rotation measure (RM) towards 641 polarized extragalactic radio sources in the Galactic longitude range 100-117 degs, within 30 degs…

We report a trigonometric parallax measurement with the Very Long Baseline Array for the water maser in the distant high-mass star-forming region G75.30+1.32. This source has a heliocentric distance of 9.25+-0.45 kpc, which places it in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Sanna , M. J. Reid , T. M. Dame , K. M. Menten , A. Brunthaler , L. Moscadelli , X. W. Zheng , Y. Xu

We analyze the motion of stars in the direction perpendicular to the galactic plane following a spiral arm passage. We show that the fast change in the vertical galactic potential causes a thermalized distribution to develop a distinctive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-09 Nir J. Shaviv

Methanol masers are associated with young high-mass stars and are an important tool for investigating the process of massive star formation. The recently discovered methanol maser ring in G23.657-00.127 provides an excellent ``laboratory''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 A. Bartkiewicz , A. Brunthaler , M. Szymczak , H. J. van Langevelde , M. J. Reid

We carry out analyses of some parameters of the galactic spiral arms, in the currently available samples. We present a catalog of the observed pitch angle for each spiral arm in the Milky Way disk. For each long spiral arm in the Milky Way,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Jacques P Vallee

We present a map of the spiral structure of the Galaxy, as traced by molecular CS emission associated with IRAS sources which are believed to be compact HII regions. The CS line velocities are used to determine the kinematic distances of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 J. R. D. Lepine , A. Roman-Lopes , Zulema Abraham , T. C. Junqueira , Yu. N. Mishurov

We have studied a sample of Galactic classical Cepheids with their distance estimates taken from Skowron et al. (2019), where they were determined based on the period-luminosity relation. In this paper the Skowron et al. (2019) distances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-23 Vadim Bobylev , Anisa Bajkova