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Based on published sources, we have created a kinematic database on 220 massive (>10 solar masses) young Galactic star systems located within <3 kpc of the Sun. Out of them, approximately 100 objects are spectroscopic binary and multiple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-08 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

We present the peculiar in-plane velocities derived from the LAMOST red clump stars. From the variations of the in-plane velocity with the Galactocentric radius for the young and old red clump stars, we are able to identify two types of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Hai-Jun Tian , Chao Liu , Jun-Chen Wan , Li-Cai Deng , Zi-Huang Cao , Yong-Hui Hou , Yong Zhang , Yue-Fei Wang , Yue Wu , Yong-Heng Zhao

We report measurements of parallax and proper motion for four 22 GHz water maser sources as part of VERA Outer Rotation Curve project. All sources show Galactic latitudes of $>$ 2$^{\circ}$ and Galactocentric distances of $>$ 11 kpc at the…

We derive the mean velocity components at various Galactocentric radii from 8 to 14 kpc using about 40,000 red clump stars observed in the LAMOST survey. We find that the vertical bulk motion for younger red clump stars are significantly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Chao Liu , Hai-Jun Tian , Jun-Chen Wan

We present the rotation velocities V and velocity dispersions sigma along the principal axes of seven elliptical galaxies less luminous than M_B= -19.5. These kinematics extend beyond the half-light radii for all systems in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hans-Walter Rix , Marcella Carollo , Ken Freeman

We present evidence for a Galactic North-South asymmetry in the number density and bulk velocity of solar neighborhood stars. The number density profile, which is derived from main-sequence stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, shows a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Lawrence M. Widrow , Susan Gardner , Brian Yanny , Scott Dodelson , Hsin-Yu Chen

Ellipticals in very low density environments are extremely rare but hold important clues about galaxy formation and evolution. In this paper we continue our study of isolated elliptical galaxies, presenting results on the radial stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 George Hau , Duncan Forbes

We present the Galactic disk vertical velocity analysis using OB type stars (OB), Red Clump stars (RC), and Main-Sequence-Turn-Off stars (MSTO) with different average age populations crossed matched with LAMOST DR5 and Gaia DR3. We reveal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-08 Xiang Li , Hai-Feng Wang , Yang-Ping Luo , Martín López-Corredoira , Yuan-Sen Ting , Žofia Chrobáková

We use K-giant stars selected from the LAMOST DR5 to study the variation of the rotational velocity of the galactic halo at different space positions. Modelling the rotational velocity distribution with both the halo and disk components, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-26 Hao Tian , Chao Liu , Yougang Wang , Yan Xu , Chengqun Yang , Bo Zhang , Xiang-Xiang Xue

The Galactic disk is one of the main components of the Milky Way, which contributes most of the luminosity. Its structure is essential for understanding the formation and evolution of the Milky Way. Using 174,443 K-type dwarf stars observed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-15 Xi-Can Tang , Hao Tian , Jing Li , Bing-qiu Chen , Yi-Rong Chen , Chao Liu , Dan Qiu

We derive the vertical velocities of disk stars in the range of Galactocentric radii of R=5-16 kpc within 2 kpc in height from the Galactic plane. This kinematic information is connected to dynamical aspects in the formation and evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-10 M. Lopez-Corredoira , H. Abedi , F. Garzon , F. Figueras

We examine the vertical structure and equilibrium of the molecular gas layer in the galactic disk, measuring its scale height and velocity dispersion as a function of Galactic radius by modeling the CO emission at the tangent points. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Sangeeta Malhotra

We have investigated the distributions of stellar azimuthal and radial velocity components $V_{\Phi}$ and $V_{R}$ in the vertical position-velocity plane $Z$-$V_{Z}$ across the Galactic disc of $6.34 \lesssim R \lesssim 12.34$\,kpc and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 C. Wang , Y. Huang , H. -B. Yuan , M. -S. Xiang , B. -Q. Chen , H. -F. Wang , Y. -Q. Wu , H. -W. Zhang , Z. -J. Tian , Y. Yang , M. Zhang , X. -W. Liu

We combine GALEX and Gaia DR2 catalogs to track star formation in the outskirts of our Galaxy. Using photometry, proper motions and parallaxes we identify a structure of ~ 300 OB-type candidates located between 12 and 15 kpc from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Terrence M. Girard

We compare and contrast the kinematics of various classes of stars, both normal (with M-K spectral types) and peculiar. Numerous plots show the differences in spatial and velocity distributions as well as distributions in kinetic energy vs.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-13 Charles R. Cowley , Robert E. Stencel

Only recently, complex models that include the global dynamics from dwarf satellite galaxies, dark matter halo structure, gas infalls, and stellar disk in a cosmological context became available to study the dynamics of disk galaxies such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-14 B. García-Conde , T. Antoja , S. Roca-Fàbrega , F. Gómez , P. Ramos , N. Garavito-Camargo , MA. Gómez-Flechoso

Most of the visible mass in a typical spiral galaxy is distributed in a thin disk, with a radial extent much larger than its thickness. While the planar disk structure, including non-axisymmetric features such as spiral structure, has been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-04 Chanda J. Jog

Using a sample of about 123,000 stars with accurate 3D velocity measurements from the LAMOST-TGAS data, we confirm the kinematic signature of the Galactic warp found by Sch\"onrich & Dehnen recently. The data reveal a clear trend of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Yang Huang , R. Schönrich , Xiaowei Liu , Bingqiu Chen , Huawei Zhang , Haibo Yuan , Maosheng Xiang , Chun Wang , Zhijia Tian

We analyze the distribution of G and K type stars towards the Galactic poles using RAVE and ELODIE radial velocities, 2MASS photometric star counts, and UCAC2 proper motions. The combination of photometric and 3D kinematic data allows us to…

We present the results of determining the parameters characterizing the shape and orientation of residual velocity ellipsoids from the Gaia DR3 red giants and subgiants. We show the distribution of velocity dispersions in the Galactic plane…