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We estimate the mass of the Milky Way (MW) within 21.1 kpc using the kinematics of halo globular clusters (GCs) determined by Gaia. The second Gaia data release (DR2) contained a catalogue of absolute proper motions (PMs) for a set of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-20 Laura L. Watkins , Roeland P. van der Marel , Sangmo Tony Sohn , N. Wyn Evans

We report on the extent of the effects of the Milky Way's gravitational field in shaping the structural parameters and internal dynamics of its globular cluster population. We make use of a homogeneous, up-to-date data set with kinematics,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Andrés E. Piatti , Jeremy Webb , Raymond Carlberg

We analyzed the regularity/chaoticity of the orbits of 45 globular clusters in the central region of the Galaxy with a radius of 3.5 kpc, which are subject to the greatest influence from an elongated rotating bar. Various analysis methods…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-25 Anisa Bajkova , Anton Smirnov , Vadim Bobylev

The Gaia satellite will observe the positions and velocities of over a billion Milky Way stars. In the early data releases, the majority of observed stars do not have complete 6D phase-space information. In this Letter, we demonstrate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-08 Adriana Dropulic , Bryan Ostdiek , Laura J. Chang , Hongwan Liu , Timothy Cohen , Mariangela Lisanti

We introduce a two-particle correlation function (2PCF) for the Milky Way, constructed to probe spatial correlations in the orthogonal directions of the stellar disk in the Galactic cylindrical coordinates of $R$, $\phi$, and $z$. We use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-16 Austin Hinkel , Susan Gardner , Brian Yanny

Recent studies have identified star clusters with multiple components based on accurate spatial distributions and/or proper motions from Gaia DR3, utilising diverse diagnostics to improve our understanding of subgroup evolution. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 J. Gregorio-Hetem , A. Hetem

Considering the GAIA data for {$\approx 10^6$} stars around the {barycenter,} we estimate the fractal dimension for different regions in the Milky Way. Then we use those fractal dimensions to calculate the gravitational potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-04 T Canavesi

Gaia Data Release 2 provides a wealth of data to study the internal structure of nearby globular clusters. We use this data to investigate the internal kinematics of 11 nearby globular clusters, with a particular focus on their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 Abhinav Jindal , Jeremy J. Webb , Jo Bovy

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

A suite of vast stellar surveys mapping the Milky Way, culminating in the Gaia mission, is revolutionizing the empirical information about the distribution and properties of stars in the Galactic stellar disk. We review and lay out what…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-04 Hans-Walter Rix , Jo Bovy

We present a pilot study of Galactic globular cluster (GC) proper motion (PM) determinations using Gaia data. We search for GC stars in the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) catalogue from Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1), and identify five…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-22 Laura L. Watkins , Roeland P. van der Marel

Based on astrometric data from Gaia DR2, we employ an unsupervised machine learning method to blindly search for open star clusters in the Milky Way within the Galactic latitude range of |b| < 20 degrees. In addition to 2,080 known…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-02 Zhi-Hong He , Ye Xu , Chao-Jie Hao , Zhen-Yu Wu , Jing-Jing Li

I analyse the projected density distribution of member stars over a wide area surrounding 18 Galactic globular clusters using the photometric and astrometric information provided by the second data release of the Gaia mission. A 5D mixture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 A. Sollima

$Context$. The assembly history experienced by the Milky Way is currently being unveiled thanks to the data provided by the $Gaia$ mission. It is likely that the globular cluster system of our Galaxy has followed a similarly intricate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Davide Massari , Helmer H. Koppelman , Amina Helmi

We present orbits and their properties for 152 globular clusters of the Milky Way galaxy obtained using average Gaia DR2 proper motions and other astrometric data from the list of Vasiliev (2019). For orbit integrating we have used the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-08 A. T. Bajkova , V. V. Bobylev

Our location in the Milky Way provides an exceptional opportunity to gain insight on the galactic evolution processes, and complement the information inferred from observations of external galaxies. Since the Milky Way is a barred galaxy,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-10 Pedro Alonso Palicio , Inma Martinez-Valpuesta , Carlos Allende Prieto , Claudio Dalla Vecchia

This study constitutes part of a larger effort aimed at better characterizing the Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) located towards the inner Milky Way bulge and disk. Here, we focus on internal kinematics of nine GGCs, obtained from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Roger E. Cohen , Andrea Bellini , Mattia Libralato , Matteo Correnti , Thomas M. Brown , Jason S. Kalirai

We apply the clustering algorithm HDBSCAN on the Gaia early third data release astrometry combined with the Gaia second data release radial velocity measurements of almost 5.5 million stars to identify the local stellar kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Xiaowei Ou , Lina Necib , Anna Frebel

The series of events, which occurred at high redshift and originated multiple stellar populations in Globular Clusters (GCs) are still poorly understood. Theoretical work suggests that the present-day dynamics of stars in nearby GCs,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , A. Mastrobuono-Battisti , E. P. Lagioia

We have mapped the number density and mean vertical velocity of the Milky Way's stellar disk out to roughly two kiloparsecs from the Sun using Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) and complementary photo-astrometric distance information from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 Axel Widmark , Lawrence M. Widrow , Aneesh Naik