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Passing through the Galactic disk, a massive object such as a globular cluster, can trigger star formation process leading to the birth of open clusters. Here, we analyze such possible evolutionary relationship between globular and open…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-07 A. T. Bajkova , V. V. Bobylev

The bulk of old stars in the Galactic disk have migrated radially by up to several kpc in their lifetimes, yet the disk has remained relatively cool, i.e., the ratio of radial heating to migration has been small. Here, we demonstrate that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-15 Chris Hamilton , Shaunak Modak , Scott Tremaine

The outer disks of galaxies present a unique laboratory for studying the process of disk formation. A considerable fraction of observed disks exhibit a break in their surface brightness profiles. The ubiquity of these features points to a…

The Galactic population of open clusters provides an insight into star formation in the Galaxy. The open cluster catalogue by Dias et al.(2002b) is a rich source of data, including kinematic information. This large sample made it possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Vande Putte , T. P. Garnier , Ignacio Ferreras , R. P. Mignani , Mark Cropper

Stars in the Galactic disc, including the Solar system, have deviated from their birth orbits and have experienced radial mixing and vertical heating. By performing hydrodynamical simulations of a galactic disc, we investigate how much…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Yusuke Fujimoto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Junichi Baba

Open clusters (OCs) in the Galaxy are excellent probes for tracing the structure and evolution of the Galactic disk. We present an updated catalog of parameters for 1,145 OCs, estimated using the Gaia DR3 data earlier listed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 Geeta Rangwal , Aman Arya , Annapurni Subramaniam , Kulinder Pal Singh , Xiaowei Liu

Open clusters are convenient probes of the structure and history of the Galactic disk. They are also fundamental to stellar evolution studies. The second Gaia data release contains precise astrometry at the sub-milliarcsecond level and…

A star in the Milky Way's disk can now be at a Galactocentric radius quite distant from its birth radius for two reasons: either its orbit has become eccentric through radial heating, which increases its radial action $J_R$ (`blurring'); or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 Neige Frankel , Jason Sanders , Yuan-Sen Ting , Hans-Walter Rix

In this work we improve a previously published method to calculate in a reliable way the radius of an open cluster. The method is based on the behaviour of stars in the proper motion space as the sampling changes in the position space. Here…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio Alfaro , Fatima Lopez-Martinez

Context. Open clusters (OCs) are groups of stars formed from the same cloud of gas and cosmic dust. They play an important role in studies of star formation and evolution and our understanding of galaxy structure and dynamics. Aims. The…

With the calculated guiding center radius $R_{guiding}$ and birth radius $R_{birth}$, we investigate the role of radial migration on the description of lithium evolution in the Galactic disk based on the upper envelope of the A(Li) vs.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-13 Haopeng Zhang , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao , Shaolan Bi , Xianfei Zhang , Xiangxiang Xue

The Galactic disk retains a vast amount of information about how it came to be, and how it evolved over cosmic time. However, we know very little about the secular processes associated with disk evolution. One major uncertainty is the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Mark Krumholz , Ken Freeman

Stellar orbits in the Galactic disc evolve from their birth to the current shape through both radial migration and dynamical heating. The history of their secular evolution is imprinted in the current kinematics and age-metallicity…

We perform analysis of the three-dimensional kinematics of Milky Way disk stars in mono-age populations. We focus on stars between Galactocentric distances of $R=6$ and 14 \,kpc, selected from the combined LAMOST DR4 red clump giant stars…

Using tracer particles embedded in self-gravitating shearing sheet N-body simulations, we investigate the distance in guiding centre radius that stars or star clusters can migrate in a few orbital periods. The standard deviations of guiding…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 Alice C. Quillen , Eric Nolting , Ivan Minchev , Gayandhi De Silva , Cristina Chiappini

We have compiled two new Galactic open cluster catalogues. The first one has 119 objects with age, distance and metallicity data, while the second one has 144 objects with both absolute proper motion and radial velocity data, of which 45…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Chen , J. L. Hou , J. J. Wang

Non-axisymmetric components, such as spirals and central bars, play a major role in shaping galactic discs. An important aspect of the disc secular evolution driven by these perturbers is the radial migration of stars. It has been suggested…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 I. Minchev , B. Famaey , A. C. Quillen , W. Dehnen , M. Martig , A. Siebert

The Gaia mission has opened a new window into the internal kinematics of young star clusters at the sub-km/s level, with implications for our understanding of how star clusters form and evolve. We use a sample of 28 clusters and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 Michael A. Kuhn , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Alison Sills , Eric D. Feigelson , Konstantin V. Getman

Reconstructing the star formation history (SFH) of disk galaxies is central to understanding their growth and evolution, yet such estimates can be strongly biased by stellar radial migration over cosmic time. Using 186 Milky Way (MW) and…

We present a systematic investigation of 1,481 Galactic open clusters (OCs) through the application of the Limepy dynamical model, from which we derive the fundamental structural parameters of OCs. We conduct the statistical analyses on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-11 Jin-Sheng Qiu , Zhen Wan , Xu-Zhi Li , Qing-Feng Zhu , Lu-lu Fan , Xiao-Hui Xu , Jun-Han Zhao , Zhi-Yong Pu