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We describe a procedure to identify stars from nearby moving groups and associations out of catalogs of stars with large proper motions. We show that from the mean motion vector of a known or suspected moving group, one can identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sebastien Lepine , Michal Simon

The kinematic plane of stars near the Sun has proven an indispensable tool for untangling the complexities of the structure of our Milky Way (MW). With ever improving data, numerous kinematic "moving groups" of stars have been better…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 Scott Lucchini , Emil Pellett , Elena D'Onghia , J. Alfonso L. Aguerri

Theoretical models of spiral arms suggest that the spiral arms provoke a vertical bulk motion in disc stars. By analysing the breathing motion, a coherent asymmetric vertical motion around the mid-plane of the Milky Way disc, with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-29 Tetsuro Asano , Daisuke Kawata , Michiko S. Fujii , Junichi Baba

We present our spectroscopic program aimed to study some new interesting features recently discovered in the Magellanic Cloud System. These were revealed by the spatial distribution of OB-type candidate stars, selected based on UV, optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-23 C. Moni Bidin , D. I. Casetti-Dinescu , R. A. Mendez , T. M. Girard , K. Vieira , V. I. Korchagin , W. F. van Altena

We present the results of a large-scale proper motion study of the central ~36'x16' of the Milky Way, based on our high angular resolution GALACTICNUCLEUS survey (epoch 2015) combined with the HST Paschen-alpha survey (epoch 2008). Our…

With the advent of the Gaia data, the unprecedented kinematic census of great part of the Milky Way disc will allow us to characterise the local kinematic groups and new groups in different disc neighbourhoods. First, we show here that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Antoja , A. Helmi , F. Figueras , M. Romero-Gómez , the RAVE Collaboration

This work extends previous kinematic studies of young stars in the Head of the Orion A cloud (OMC-1/2/3/4/5). It is based on large samples of infrared, optical, and X-ray selected pre-main sequence stars with reliable radial velocities and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-05 K. V. Getman , E. D. Feigelson , M. A. Kuhn , G. P. Garmire

The Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is the nearest site of ongoing massive star formation, which allows us to study the kinematics and dynamics of the region in detail and constrain star formation theories. Using HST ACS/WFPC2/WFC3IR and Keck II…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Dongwon Kim , Jessica R. Lu , Quinn Konopacky , Laurie Chu , Elizabeth Toller , Jay Anderson , Christopher A. Theissen , Mark R. Morris

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy with the Schechter characteristic luminosity $L_*$, thus an important anchor point of the Hubble sequence of all spiral galaxies. Yet the true appearance of the Milky Way has remained elusive for centuries.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-21 Juntai Shen , Xing-Wu Zheng

Using the kinematically unbiased technique described in Binks, Jeffries & Maxted (2015), we present optical spectra for a further 122 rapidly-rotating (rotation periods < 6 days), X-ray active FGK stars, selected from the SuperWASP survey.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Alex S. Binks , Robin. D. Jeffries , Jacob. L. Ward

The nature of the spiral structure of the Milky Way has long been debated. Only in the last decade have astronomers been able to accurately measure distances to a substantial number of high-mass star-forming regions, the classic tracers of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-05 Ye Xu , Mark Reid , Thomas Dame , Karl Menten , Nobuyuki Sakai , Jingjing Li , Andreas Brunthaler , Luca Moscadelli , Bo Zhang , Xingwu Zheng

We analyze the membership probability of young stars belonging to nearby moving groups with $\textit{Gaia}$ DR2 data. The sample of 1429 stars were identified from 'The Catalog of Suspected Nearby Young Moving Group Stars'. Good-quality…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 K. Ujjwal , Sreeja S. Kartha , Blesson Mathew , P. Manoj , Mayank Narang

We present results from 1351 high resolution spectra of 1215 stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) and the surrounding Orion 1c association, obtained with the Hectochelle multiobject echelle spectrograph on the 6.5m MMT. We confirmed 1111…

We perform numerical simulations of a stellar galactic disk with initial conditions chosen to represent an unrelaxed population which might have been left following a merger. Stars are unevenly distributed in radial action angle, though the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Minchev , A. C. Quillen , M. Williams , K. C. Freeman , J. Nordhaus , A. Siebert , O. Bienayme

We present the kinematic analysis of $246$ stars within $4\mbox{$^\prime$}$ from the center of Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), the closest massive star cluster with active star formation across the full mass range, which provides valuable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-23 Lingfeng Wei , Christopher A. Theissen , Quinn M. Konopacky , Jessica R. Lu , Chih-Chun Hsu , Dongwon Kim

A simple one-dimensional axisymmetric disc model is applied to the kinematics of OB stars near the Sun obtained from Gaia DR3 catalogue. The model determines the 'local centrifugal speed' $V_\mathrm{c}(R_{0})$ - defined as the circular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-11 Aisha S. Almannaei , Daisuke Kawata , Junichi Baba , Jason A. S. Hunt , George Seabroke , Ziyang Yan

Trigonometric parallax measurements of nine water masers associated with the Local arm of the Milky Way were carried out as part of the BeSSeL Survey using the VLBA. When combined with 21 other parallax measurements from the literature, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Y. Xu , J. J. Li , M. J. Reid , K. M. Menten , X. W. Zheng , A. Brunthaler , L. Moscadelli , T. M. Dame , B. Zhang

The past two decades have seen dramatic progress in our knowledge of the population of stars of age $\lesssim$150 Myr that lie within $\sim$100 pc of the Sun. Most such stars are found in loose kinematic groups ("nearby young moving…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Joel H. Kastner , David A. Principe

The structure and evolution of the spiral arms of our Milky Way are basic but long-standing questions in astronomy. In particular, the lifetime of spiral arms is still a puzzle and has not been well constrained from observations. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 C. J. Hao , Y. Xu , L. G. Hou , S. B. Bian , J. J. Li , Z. Y. Wu , Z. H. He , Y. J. Li , D. J. Liu

This is the first paper of a series aimed at studying the properties of late-type stars members of young stellar kinematic groups. We concentrate our study on classical young moving groups as: Local Association (Pleiades moving group, 20 -…