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To illustrate the potential of GDR2, we provide a first look at the kinematics of the Milky Way disc, within a radius of several kiloparsecs around the Sun. We benefit for the first time from a sample of 6.4 million F-G-K stars with full 6D…

We analyze the 3D kinematics of a sample of $\sim 4400$ red clump stars ranging between 5 and 10 kpc from the Galactic center and up to 3 kpc from the Galactic plane. This sample is representative for the metal-rich ([Fe/H] = -0.6 to 0.5)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 D. I. Casetti-Dinescu , T. M. Girard , V. I. Korchagin , W. F van Altena

We study Milky Way kinematics using a sample of 18.8 million main-sequence stars with r<20 and proper-motion measurements derived from SDSS and POSS astrometry, including ~170,000 stars with radial-velocity measurements from the SDSS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 N. A. Bond , Z. Ivezic , B. Sesar , M. Juric , J. Munn

The aim of the analysis of data from the Gaia Space Observatory is to obtain kinematic parameters of the collective motion of stars in a part of our galaxy. This research is based on a statistical analysis of the motion of {$55,038,539$}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-18 Petr Zavada , Karel Píška

We present a sample of 254,882 luminous red giant branch (LRGB) stars selected from the APOGEE and LAMOST surveys. By combining photometric and astrometric information from the 2MASS and Gaia surveys, the precise distances of the sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 Yuan Zhou , Xinyi Li , Yang Huang , Huawei Zhang

This work explores dynamical models of the Milky Way (MW) by analyzing a sample of 86,109 K giant stars selected through cross-matching the LAMOST DR8 and Gaia EDR3 surveys. Our earlier torus models in Wang et al. (2017) did not include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-26 Guang-Chen Sun , Qiao Wang , Shude Mao , Yichao Li , Richard J. Long , Ping-Jie Ding , Yougang Wang , Xin Zhang , Xuelei Chen

The Milky Way spiral arms are well established from star counts as well as from the locus of molecular clouds and other young objects, however, they have only recently started to be observed from a kinematics point of view. Using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-15 Luis Martinez-Medina , Angeles Pérez-Villegas , Antonio Peimbert

Most of known RR Lyraes are type ab RR Lyraes (RRLab), and they are the excellent tool to map the Milky Way and its substructures. We find that 1148 RRLab stars determined by Drake et al.(2013) have been observed by spectroscopic surveys of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-28 Iminhaji Ablimit , Gang Zhao

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

We employ Gaia DR2 proper motions for 151 Milky Way globular clusters from Vasiliev (2019) in tandem with distances and line-of-sight velocities to derive their kinematical properties. To assign clusters to the Milky Way thick disk, bulge,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 A. T. Bajkova , G. Carraro , V. I. Korchagin , N. O. Budanova , V. V. Bobylev

The Milky Way is a unique laboratory, where stellar properties can be measured and analyzed in detail. In particular, stars in the older populations encode information on the mechanisms that led to the formation of our Galaxy. In this…

Using over 170,000 red clump (RC) stars selected from LAMOST and APOGEE, we conduct a detailed analysis of the stellar $V_{Z}$ as a function of $L_{Z}$ (or $R_{g}$) across different $\phi$ bins for various disk populations. The $V_{Z}$ of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-15 Weixiang Sun , Han Shen , Biwei Jiang , Xiaowei Liu

In this paper, we construct a detailed circular velocity curve of the Milky Way out to 20 kpc based on the radial component of the Jeans equation in cylindrical coordinates, assuming an axisymmetric gravitational potential, and show its…

The structure and kinematics of the recognized stellar components of the Milky Way are explored, based on well-determined atmospheric parameters and kinematic quantities for 32360 calibration stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…

Gaia DR2 has delivered full-sky 6-D measurements for millions of stars, and the quest to understand the dynamics of our Galaxy has entered a new phase. Our aim is to reveal and characterize the kinematic sub-structure of the different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 P. Ramos , T. Antoja , F. Figueras

We present the results of the kinematic investigations carried out with the use of spatial velocities of red giants and sub-giants containing in the $Gaia$~EDR3 catalogue. The twelve kinematic parameters of the Ogorodnikov--Milne model have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 P. N. Fedorov , V. S. Akhmetov , A. B. Velichko , A. M. Dmytrenko , S. I. Denischenko

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…

Aims. We study the Milky Way thin disk with the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) survey. We consider the thin and thick disks as different Galactic components and present a technique to statistically disentangle the two populations. Then…

The velocity distribution of stars in the Solar neighbourhood is inhomogeneous and rich with stellar streams and kinematic structures. These may retain important clues of the formation and dynamical history of the Milky Way. However, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-13 Iryna Kushniruk , Thiebaut Schirmer , Thomas Bensby

RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way are good tracers to study the kinematic behaviour and spatial distribution of older stellar populations. A recently established well documented sample of 217 RR Lyr stars with V<12.5 mag, has been used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gisela Maintz , Klaas S. de Boer
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