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The stellar velocity ellipsoid of the solar neighbour is re-examined using intermediate-old mono-abundances stellar groups with high quality chemistry data together with parallaxes and proper motions from Gaia DR1. We find the average…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Borja Anguiano , Steven R. Majewski , Kenneth C. Freeman , Arik W. Mitschang , Martin C. Smith

By evaluating angular momentum directions of open cluster (OC) samples across various Galactocentric radii, we assessed their orbital plane inclinations. Our findings reveal that, without considering the local tilt of the Galactic disk near…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-31 Liming Peng , Zhihong He

We have carried out a sample survey in UBVR photometry and proper motions in different directions in the Galaxy, as part of an investigation of galactic structure and evolution. Three fields in the direction of galactic anticentre, centre…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Devendra Ojha , Olivier Bienayme , Annie Robin , Michel Creze , Vijay Mohan

We investigated the space velocity components of 6610 red clump (RC) stars in terms of vertical distance, Galactocentric radial distance and Galactic longitude. Stellar velocity vectors are corrected for differential rotation of the Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 S. Karaali , S. Bilir , S. Ak , E. Yaz Gokce , O. Onal , T. Ak

We explore the hypothesis that a passing satellite or dark matter subhalo has excited coherent oscillations of the Milky Way's stellar disk in the direction perpendicular to the Galactic midplane. This work is motivated by recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Lawrence M. Widrow , Jarrett Barber , Matthew H. Chequers , Edward Cheng

Accurate determination of the local dark matter density is important for understanding the nature and distribution of dark matter in the universe. This requires that the local velocity distribution is characterised correctly. Here, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-06 Alex Büdenbender , Glenn van de Ven , Laura L. Watkins

We study the interactions of a relativistic jet with a dense turbulent gaseous disk of radius $\sim 2$ kpc. We have performed a suite of simulations with different mean density, jet power and orientation. Our results show that: A) the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Dipanjan Mukherjee , Geoffrey V. Bicknell , Alexander Y. Wagner , Ralph S. Sutherland , Joseph Silk

We study the relation between the surface density of gas and star formation rate in twenty moderately-inclined, bulgeless disk galaxies (Sd-Sdm Hubble types) using CO(1-0) data from the IRAM 30m telescope, HI emission line data from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Linda C. Watson , Paul Martini , Ute Lisenfeld , Man-Hong Wong , Torsten Boeker , Eva Schinnerer

Stars in the Galactic disk are born on cold, nearly circular orbits with small vertical excursions. After their birth, their orbits evolve, driven by small- or large-scale perturbations in the Galactic disk's gravitational potential. Here,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-11 D. N. Garzon , Neige Frankel , Eleonora Zari , Maosheng Xiang , Hans-Walter Rix

The stellar disc kinematics in a sample of fifteen intermediate- to late-type edge-on spiral galaxies are studied using a dynamical modeling technique. The sample covers a substantial range in maximum rotation velocity and deprojected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kregel , P. C. van der Kruit

We present deep optical long-slit spectra of 17 edge-on spiral galaxies of intermediate to late morphological type, mostly parallel to their major axes and in a few cases parallel to the minor axes.The line-of-sight stellar kinematics are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kregel , P. C. van der Kruit , K. C. Freeman

With about 12 000 OB type stars selected from the LAMOST and Gaia survey, we study their 3 dimensional velocity distribution over the range of galactocentric radius from 6 to 15 kpc in the Galactic disk plane. A clear ripple pattern in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-01 Xinlun Cheng , Chao Liu , Shude Mao , Wenyuan Cui

We present a study of the vertical structure of the gaseous and stellar disks in a sample of edge-on galaxies (NGC 4157, 4565, and 5907) using BIMA/CARMA 12CO (J = 1 --> 0), VLA H I, and Spitzer 3.6 micron data. In order to take into…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Kijeong Yim , Tony Wong , Rui Xue , Richard J. Rand , Erik Rosolowsky , J. M. van der Hulst , Robert Benjamin , Eric J. Murphy

We analyse the three-dimensional structure and kinematics of two samples of young stars in the Galactic disc, containing respectively young giants ($\sim$17$\, $000 stars out to heliocentric distances of $\sim$7 kpc) and classical Cepheids…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 E. Poggio , S. Khanna , R. Drimmel , E. Zari , E. D'Onghia , M. G. Lattanzi , P. A. Palicio , A. Recio-Blanco , L. Thulasidharan

We present the results of a spectroscopic survey of the kinematic structure of star-forming galaxies at redshift z ~ 2 - 3 using Keck/OSIRIS integral field spectroscopy. Our sample is comprised of 12 galaxies between redshifts z ~ 2.0 and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-18 David R. Law , Charles C. Steidel , Dawn K. Erb , James E. Larkin , Max Pettini , Alice E. Shapley , Shelley A. Wright

The predictions from a Galactic Structure and Kinematic model code are compared to the color counts and absolute proper-motions derived from the Southern Proper-Motion survey covering more than 700 $\deg^2$ toward the South Galactic Pole in…

We investigate the stellar kinematics of the Galactic disc in 7 $<$ $R$ $<$ 13\,kpc using a sample of 118\,945 red giant branch (RGB) stars from LAMOST and Gaia. We characterize the median, dispersion and skewness of the distributions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Yaqian Wu , Maosheng Xiang , Yuqin Chen , Gang Zhao , Shaolan Bi , Chengdong Li , Yaguang Li , Yang Huang

We present the peculiar in-plane velocities derived from the LAMOST red clump stars, which are purified and separated by a novel approach into two groups with different ages. The samples are mostly contributed around the Galactic…

To understand the processes that build up galaxies we investigate the stellar structure and gas kinematics of spiral and irregular galaxies out to redshift 1. We target 92 galaxies in four cluster (z = 0.3 & 0.5) fields to study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 Bodo L. Ziegler , Elif Kutdemir , Cristiano Da Rocha , Asmus Böhm , Reynier F. Peletier , Miguel Verdugo

The kinematical properties of the Galactic Thick Disk are studied using absolute proper motions from the SPM3 Catalog and 2MASS near-infrared photometry for a sample of ~1200 red giants in the direction of the South Galactic Pole. The…