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Context. Thanks to recent large scale surveys in the near infrared such as 2MASS, the galactic plane that most suffers from extinction is revealed and its overall structure can be studied. Aims. This work aims at constraining the structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 C. Reyle , D. J. Marshall , A. C. Robin , M. Schultheis

We provide a detailed map of the ages and metallicities of turnoff stars in the Milky Way disc based on data from GALAH DR3 and Gaia EDR3. From this map, we identify previously undetected features in the age-metallicity distribution of disc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Christian L. Sahlholdt , Sofia Feltzing , Diane K. Feuillet

The stellar disc is the dominant luminous component of the Milky Way (MW). Although our understanding of its structure is rapidly expanding due to advances in large-scale stellar surveys, our picture of the MW disc remains substantially…

The separation of the Milky Way disk into a thin and thick component is supported by differences in the spatial, kinematic and metallicity distributions of their stars. These differences have led to the view that the thick disk formed early…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Sarah R. Loebman , Rok Roskar , Victor P. Debattista , Zeljko Ivezic , Thomas R. Quinn , James Wadsley

We still do not understand how planets form, or why extra-solar planetary systems are so different from our own solar system. But the last few years have dramatically changed our view of the discs of gas and dust around young stars.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Pinte , G. van der Plas , F. Menard , D. J. Price , V. Christiaens , T. Hill , D. Mentiplay , C. Ginski , E. Choquet , Y. Boehler , G. Duchene , S. Perez , S. Casassus

We analyse the phase-space structure of simulated thick discs that are the result of a significant merger between a disc galaxy and a satellite. Our main goal is to establish what would be the characteristic imprints of a merger origin for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Álvaro Villalobos , Amina Helmi

We have for the first time identified the early stellar disk in the Milky Way by using a combination of elemental abundances and kinematics. Using data from APOGEE DR17 and Gaia we select stars in the Mg-Mn-Al-Fe plane with elemental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Sofia Feltzing , Diane Feuillet

The quality and quantity of 6D stellar position-velocity measurements in the second Gaia data release (DR2) allows to study small-scale structure in the orbit distribution of the Galactic disc beyond the immediate Solar neighborhood. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Wilma H. Trick , Johanna Coronado , Hans-Walter Rix

We analyse from an observational perspective the formation history and kinematics of a Milky Way-like galaxy from a high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulation that we compare to those of our Galaxy as seen by Gaia DR2 to better…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-05 M. Giammaria , A. Spagna , M. G. Lattanzi , G. Murante , P. Re Fiorentin , M. Valentini

We present a detailed analysis of kinematics of the Milky Way disk in solar neighborhood using GAIA DR3 catalog. To determine the local kinematics of the stellar disks of the Milky Way galaxy we use a complete sample of 278,228 red giant…

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 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 Milky Way has distinct structural stellar components linked to its formation and subsequent evolution, but disentangling them is nontrivial. With the recent availability of high-quality data for a large numbers of stars in the Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-05 Amalie Stokholm , Víctor Aguirre Børsen-Koch , Dennis Stello , Marc Hon , Claudia Reyes

The evolution of the Milky Way disk, which contains most of the stars in the Galaxy, is affected by several phenomena. For example, the bar and the spiral arms of the Milky Way induce radial migration of stars and can trap or scatter stars…

Spatially resolved scattered-light images of circumstellar (CS) debris in exoplanetary systems constrain the physical properties and orbits of the dust particles in these systems. They also inform on co-orbiting (but unseen) planets,…

The mechanisms of the formation and evolution of the Milky Way are encoded in the orbits, chemistry and ages of its stars. With the 4MOST MIlky way Disk And BuLgE Low-Resolution Survey (4MIDABLE-LR) we aim to study kinematic and chemical…

$Gaia$ DR2 has provided an unprecedented wealth of information about the positions and motions of stars in our Galaxy, and has highlighted the degree of disequilibria in the disc. As we collect data over a wider area of the disc it becomes…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 Jason A. S. Hunt , Kathryn V. Johnston , Alex R. Pettitt , Emily C. Cunningham , Daisuke Kawata , David W. Hogg

The astrometric sample of Gaia allows us to study the outermost Galactic disc, the halo and their interface. It is precisely at the very edge of the disc where the effects of external perturbations are expected to be the most noticeable.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 P. Ramos , T. Antoja , C. Mateu , F. Anders , C. F. P. Laporte , J. A. Carballo-Bello , B. Famaey , R. Ibata

The past 5 years have dramatically changed our view of the disks of gas and dust around young stars. Observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and extreme adaptive optics systems have revealed that disks are…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Christophe Pinte , Richard Teague , Kevin Flaherty , Cassandra Hall , Stefano Facchini , Simon Casassus

The study of the Milky Way stellar discs in the context of galaxy formation is discussed. In particular we explore the properties of the Milky Way disc using a new sample of about 550 dwarf stars for which we have recently obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Feltzing , T. Bensby