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Based on astrometric data from Gaia DR2, we employ an unsupervised machine learning method to blindly search for open star clusters in the Milky Way within the Galactic latitude range of |b| < 20 degrees. In addition to 2,080 known…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-02 Zhi-Hong He , Ye Xu , Chao-Jie Hao , Zhen-Yu Wu , Jing-Jing Li

We apply the clustering algorithm HDBSCAN on the Gaia early third data release astrometry combined with the Gaia second data release radial velocity measurements of almost 5.5 million stars to identify the local stellar kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-15 Xiaowei Ou , Lina Necib , Anna Frebel

We present a wavelet-based algorithm to identify dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way in ${\it Gaia}$ DR2 data. Our algorithm detects overdensities in 4D position--proper motion space, making it the first search to explicitly use velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-15 Elise Darragh-Ford , Ethan O. Nadler , Sean McLaughlin , Risa H. Wechsler

CONTEXT. The Gaia Collaboration has used Gaia-DR2 sources with six-dimensional (6D) phase space information to derive kinematical maps within 5 kpc of the Sun, which is a reachable range for stars with relative error in distance lower than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 M. Lopez-Corredoira , F. Sylos Labini

Local stellar motions are expected, and have been shown, to include signatures of the Galaxy's past dynamical evolution. These are typically divided into the disc, which shows the dynamical effects of spiral arms and the bar, and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-26 Daniel Mikkola , Paul J. McMillan , David Hobbs

A proper understanding of the Milky Way (MW) dwarf galaxies in a cosmological context requires knowledge of their 3D velocities and orbits. However, proper motion (PM) measurements have generally been of limited accuracy and available only…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 T. K. Fritz , G. Battaglia , M. S. Pawlowski , N. Kallivayalil , R. van der Marel , T. S. Sohn , C. Brook , G. Besla

The goal of this paper is to demonstrate the outstanding quality of the second data release of the Gaia mission and its power for constraining many different aspects of the dynamics of the satellites of the Milky Way. We focus here on…

We present the results of a large-scale proper motion study of the central ~36'x16' of the Milky Way, based on our high angular resolution GALACTICNUCLEUS survey (epoch 2015) combined with the HST Paschen-alpha survey (epoch 2008). Our…

We aim to identify the cluster members, estimate cluster properties, study the dynamical state of the clusters as a function of mass, trace the existence of dynamical effects in massive stars, and check for spatial patterns of members in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Harsha K. H. , Annapurni Subramaniam , S. R. Dhanush , Hariharan D. S

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…

Hypervelocity stars are unique objects moving through the Milky Way at speeds exceeding the local escape velocity, providing valuable insights into the Galactic gravitational potential and the properties of its central supermassive black…

We present a re-organization of the Oh et al. (2017b) (Oh17) wide, co-moving catalog of 4,555 groups of stars (10,606 individual objects) identified in the Tycho Gaia Astrometric Survey (TGAS) into new and known co evolving groups of stars…

High-velocity stars are interesting targets to unveil the formation of the Milky Way. In fact they can be recently accreted from an infalling dwarf galaxies or they can be the result of a turbulent merging of galaxies. Gaia is providing the…

Our goal is to calculate the circular velocity curve of the Milky Way, along with corresponding uncertainties that quantify various sources of systematic uncertainty in a self-consistent manner. The observed rotational velocities are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-07 Sven Põder , María Benito , Joosep Pata , Rain Kipper , Heleri Ramler , Gert Hütsi , Indrek Kolka , Guillaume F. Thomas

This study constitutes part of a larger effort aimed at better characterizing the Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) located towards the inner Milky Way bulge and disk. Here, we focus on internal kinematics of nine GGCs, obtained from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Roger E. Cohen , Andrea Bellini , Mattia Libralato , Matteo Correnti , Thomas M. Brown , Jason S. Kalirai

We use Gaia DR2 astrometric and line-of-sight velocity information combined with two sets of distances obtained with a Bayesian inference method to study the 3D velocity distribution in the Milky Way disc. We search for variations in all…

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

Despite their relatively high intrinsic brightness and the fact that they are more numerous than younger OB stars and kinematically colder than older red giants, A-type stars have rarely been used as Galactic tracers. They may, in fact, be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-18 J. Ardèvol , M. Monguió , F. Figueras , M. Romero-Gómez , J. M. Carrasco

The improvements in the precision of the published data in \textit{Gaia} EDR3 with respect to \textit{Gaia} DR2, particularly for parallaxes and proper motions, offer the opportunity to increase the number of known open clusters in the…

We present an analysis of the kinematics of the Radcliffe Wave, a 2.7-kpc-long sinusoidal band of molecular clouds in the solar neighborhood recently detected via 3D dust mapping. With Gaia DR2 astrometry and spectroscopy, we analyze the 3D…