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The aim of this work is to contribute to the understanding of the stellar velocity distribution in the solar neighborhood (SN). We propose that the structures on the $U-V$ planes, known as the moving groups, can be mainly explained by the…

A bar-like central feature is commonly observed in both nearby and distant spiral-type galaxies, including the Milky Way. While many methods exist to categorise this morphology, no one method has emerged as the field-wide standard. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-22 Elizabeth J. Iles , Finn A. Pal , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Ken Freeman

Aims. We constrain the dynamical perturbations of the spiral arms in the Milky Way disk, based on the non-axisymmetric streaming motions of RGB stars revealed by APOGEE and \textit{Gaia}. Methods. We develop a revised steady-state…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Xi-Can Tang , Zhi Li , Iulia T. Simion , Hao Tian , Zhijian Luo , Shuting Fan , Zi-Qi Li

{\it Gaia} Data Release 2 (DR2) revealed that the Milky Way contains significant indications of departures from equilibrium in the form of asymmetric features in the phase space density of stars in the Solar neighborhood. One such feature…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-28 Jason A. S. Hunt , Adrian M. Price-Whelan , Kathryn V. Johnston , Elise Darragh-Ford

Positions and proper motions of Gaia sources are expressed in a reference frame that ideally should be non-rotating relative to distant extragalactic objects, coincident with the International Celestial Reference System (ICRS), and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-15 Lennart Lindegren

We explore the possibility of detecting and characterizing the warp of the stellar disc of our Galaxy using synthetic Gaia data. The availability of proper motions and, for the brightest stars radial velocities, adds a new dimension to this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 H. Abedi , C. Mateu , L. A. Aguilar , F. Figueras , M. Romero-Gomez

The structure and dynamics of the central bar of the Milky Way are still under debate whilst being fundamental ingredients for the evolution of our Galaxy. The recent Gaia DR3 offers an unprecedented detailed view of the 6D phase-space of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-05 Marcel Bernet , Pau Ramos , Teresa Antoja , Giacomo Monari , Benoit Famaey

Many barred galaxies exhibit upturns (shoulders) in their bar major-axis density profile. Simulation studies have suggested that shoulders are supported by looped $x_1$ orbits, occur in growing bars, and can appear after bar-buckling. We…

This work is devoted to studying the influence of the bar on the orbital dynamics of globular clusters. The orbits of 45 globular clusters in the central galactic region with a radius of 3.5 kpc were analyzed using spectral dynamics methods…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-28 A. T. Bajkova , A. A. Smirnov , V. V. Bobylev

Motivated by the vast gap between photometric and spectroscopic data volumes, there is great potential in using 5D kinematic information to identify and study substructures of the Milky Way. We identify substructures in the Galactic halo…

Identifying the structure of our Galaxy has always been fraught with difficulties, and while modern surveys continue to make progress building a map of the Milky Way, there is still much to understand. The arm and bar features are important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Alex R. Pettitt , Sarah E. Ragan , Martin C. Smith

We have selected and analyzed a sample of OB stars with known line-of-sight velocities determined through ground-based observations and with trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions from the Gaia DR2 catalogue. Some of the stars in our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-28 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

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

The mechanism responsible for the warp of our Galaxy, as well as its dynamical nature, continues to remain unknown. With the advent of high precision astrometry, new horizons have been opened for detecting the kinematics associated with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-17 E. Poggio , R. Drimmel , R. L. Smart , A. Spagna , M. G. Lattanzi

Bars are common galactic structures in the local universe that play an important role in the secular evolution of galaxies, including the Milky Way. In particular, the velocity distribution of individual stars in our galaxy is useful to…

We combine the Siding Spring Survey of RR Lyrae stars with the Southern Proper Motion Catalog 4, in order to detect and kinematically characterize overdensities in the inner halo of the Milky Way. We identify one such overdensity above the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-09 D. I. Casetti-Dinescu , D. A. Nusdeo , T. M. Girard , V. I. Korchagin , W. F. van Altena

We present a kinematical study of 314 RR~Lyrae stars in the solar neighbourhood using the publicly available photometric, spectroscopic, and {\it Gaia} DR2 astrometric data to explore their distribution in the Milky Way. We report an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-21 Z. Prudil , I. Dékány , E. K. Grebel , A. Kunder

The local stellar kinematics of the Milky Way, parameterized by the Oort constants A and B, depend on the local gradient of the rotation curve, its absolute value (Theta_0), and the distance to the Galactic center (R_0). The surface density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rob P. Olling , Michael R. Merrifield

We aim to explore the actions of the new Gaia DR3 astrometry to find structures in the Galactic disc. We compute the actions and the orbital parameters of the Gaia DR3 stars with full astrometry and velocities assuming an axisymmetric model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 P. A. Palicio , A. Recio-Blanco , E. Poggio , T. Antoja , P. J. McMillan , E. Spitoni

Context: Resonances in the stellar orbital motion under perturbations from spiral arms structure play an important role in the evolution of the disks of spiral galaxies. The epicyclic approximation allows the determination of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-20 Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Ronaldo S. S. Vieira , Douglas A. Barros , Jacques R. D. Lépine