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We model the kinematics of the high- and intermediate- velocity clouds (HVCs and IVCs) observed in absorption towards a sample of 55 Galactic halo stars with accurate distance measurements. We employ a simple model of a thick disc whose…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 A. Marasco , F. Fraternali , N. Lehner , J. C. Howk

We explore the vicinity of the Milky Way through the use of spectro-photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and high-quality proper motions derived from multi-epoch positions extracted from the Guide Star Catalogue II database.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-07 Paola Re Fiorentin , Mario G. Lattanzi , Alessandro Spagna , Anna Curir

We use deep images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope of the disk galaxy NGC 891, to search for globular cluster candidates. This galaxy has long been considered to be a close analog in size and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. E. Harris , M. Mouhcine , M. Rejkuba , R. Ibata

We present a new estimate of the mass of the Milky Way, inferred via a Bayesian approach by making use of tracers of the circular velocity in the disk plane and stars in the stellar halo, as from the publicly available {\tt galkin}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-21 Ekaterina V. Karukes , Maria Benito , Fabio Iocco , Roberto Trotta , Alex Geringer-Sameth

Context. Open clusters are very good tracers of the evolution of the Galactic disc. Thanks to Gaia, their kinematics can be investigated with an unprecedented precision and accuracy. Aims. The distribution of open clusters in the 6D phase…

As the Milky Way and its satellite system become more entrenched in near field cosmology efforts, the need for an accurate mass estimate of the Milky Way's dark matter halo is increasingly critical. With the second and early third data…

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…

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The Milky Way is home to a thin disk that can be defined via kinematics and/or elemental abundances. The elemental abundance-defined thin disk, also called the low-alpha disk, is generally thought to be comprised of stars on planar,…

Open star clusters from the MWSC (Milky Way Star Clusters) catalogue have been used to determine the Galactic rotation parameters. The circular rotation velocity of the solar neighborhood around the Galactic center has been found from data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-30 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova , K. S. Shirokova

High resolution N-body simulations of galactic cold dark matter haloes indicate that we should expect to find a few satellite galaxies around the Milky Way whose haloes have a maximum circular velocity in excess of 40 kms. Yet, with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Mark Lovell , Vincent Eke , Carlos Frenk , Liang Gao , Adrian Jenkins , Tom Theuns , Jie Wang , Simon White , Alexey Boyarsky , Oleg Ruchayskiy

We use hydrodynamic cosmological zoom-in simulations from the FIRE project to explore the morphologies and kinematics of fifteen Milky Way (MW)-mass galaxies. Our sample ranges from compact, bulge-dominated systems with 90% of their stellar…

The parameters of an axisymmetric model for the gravitational potential of the Galaxy have been refined. The basic curve of the Galaxy's rotation in a distance interval of $R:0-190$ kpc was constructed using the velocities of masers,…

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We derived the three-dimensional velocities of individual stars in a sample of 62 Galactic globular clusters using proper motions from the second data release of the Gaia mission together with the most comprehensive set of line-of-sight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 A. Sollima , H. Baumgardt , M. Hilker

In L\"ovdal et al, we presented a data-driven method for clustering in Integrals of Motion space and applied it to a large sample of nearby halo stars with 6D phase-space information. We identified a large number of clusters, many of which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-14 Tomás Ruiz-Lara , Tadafumi Matsuno , S. Sofie Lövdal , Amina Helmi , Emma Dodd , Helmer H. Koppelman

Like most spiral galaxies, the Milky Way contains a population of blue, metal-poor globular clusters and another of red, metal-rich ones. Most of the latter belong to the bulge, and therefore they are poorly studied compared to the blue…

We have analysed the kinematics of a sample of 114 hot subdwarf stars, for 2/3 of which we present new proper motions, spectroscopic and photometric data. The vast majority of the stars show a kinematic behaviour that is similar to that of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Altmann , H. Edelmann , K. S. de Boer

A catalog of Galactic globular clusters has been compiled and used to analyze relations between the chemical and kinematic parameters of the clusters. The catalog contains positions, distances, luminosities, metallicites, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-15 V. A. Marsakov , V. V. Koval' , M. L. Gozha

We have used the galaxy modeling algorithm \texttt{GravPot16}, to explore the more probable orbital elements of a sample of 64 selected N-rich stars across the Milky Way. Using the newly measured proper motions from \texttt{Gaia} DR2 with…

$Context$. 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

Using data from the Gaia satellite's Radial Velocity Spectrometer Data Release 3 (RVS, DR3), we find a new and robust feature in the phase space distribution of halo stars. It is a prominent ridge at constant energy and with angular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-21 Adam M. Dillamore , Vasily Belokurov , N. Wyn Evans , Elliot Y. Davies