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Identifying and characterizing young populations of star-forming regions is crucial to unravel their properties. In this regard, Gaia-DR3 data and machine learning tools are very useful for studying large star-forming complexes. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-03 Swagat R. Das , Saumya Gupta , Prem Prakash , Manash Samal , Jessy Jose

We present a catalog of 3354 candidate young stars within 500 pc that appear to have been ejected from their parent associations with relative speeds of >5 km/s. These candidates have been homogeneously selected through performing a 2d…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Marina Kounkel , Aidan McBride , Keivan G. Stassun , Nathan Leigh

We report the discovery of 15 stars in the H3 survey that lie, in projection, near the tip of the trailing gaseous Magellanic Stream (MS). The stars have Galactocentric velocities $< -155$ km s$^{-1}$, Galactocentric distances of $\approx…

Aims. We look for common proper motion companions to stars of the nearby young beta Pictoris moving group. Methods. First, we compiled a list of 185 beta Pictoris members and candidate members from 35 representative works. Next, we used the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 F. J. Alonso-Floriano , J. A. Caballero , M. Cortes-Contreras , E. Solano , D. Montes

The goal of this study is to present the development of a machine learning based approach that utilizes phase space alone to separate the Gaia DR2 stars into two categories: those accreted onto the Milky Way from those that are in situ.…

We collected radial velocities of more than 50.000 individual stars in 156 Galactic globular clusters (GGC) and matched them with HST photometry and Gaia DR2 proper motions. This allowed us to derive the GGC's mean proper motions and space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Michael Hilker , Holger Baumgardt , Antonio Sollima , Andrea Bellini

The authors of the article set out to investigate the motion of Globular Star Clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way relative to the plane and center of the Galaxy. For this study, we used data from 164 Galactic Globular Clusters derived from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-25 G. S. Karapetian , A. P. Mahtessian , M. A. Hovhannisyan , L. A. Mahtessian

Using the kinematically unbiased technique described in Binks, Jeffries & Maxted (2015), we present optical spectra for a further 122 rapidly-rotating (rotation periods < 6 days), X-ray active FGK stars, selected from the SuperWASP survey.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-15 Alex S. Binks , Robin. D. Jeffries , Jacob. L. Ward

According to LCDM theory, hierarchical evolution occurs on all mass scales, implying that satellites of the Milky Way should also have companions. The recent discovery of ultra-faint dwarf galaxy candidates in close proximity to the…

Context. Hypervelocity stars move fast enough to leave the gravitational field of their home galaxies and venture into intergalactic space. The most extreme examples known have estimated speeds in excess of 1000 km/s. These can be easily…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-09 R. de la Fuente Marcos , C. de la Fuente Marcos

We searched for and detected stellar streams or moving groups in the solar neighbourhood, using the data provided by the 1st RAVE public data release. This analysis is based on distances to RAVE stars estimated from a color-magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-24 Rainer Klement , Burkhard Fuchs , Hans-Walter Rix

Recent observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed massive, evolved galaxies only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, challenging standard cosmological models. To test the hypothesis that the Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-16 G. S. Karapetian , L. E. Byzalov , M. A. Hovhannisyan , L. A. Mahtessian , A. P. Mahtessian

We report the 3D kinematics of 27 Mira-like stars in the northern, eastern and southern periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), based on Gaia proper motions and a dedicated spectroscopic follow-up. Low-resolution spectra were…

This is the first of a series of papers devoted to the investigation of a large sample of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), their kinematic and stellar population properties, and the relationships between those and the properties of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. I. Loubser , A. E. Sansom , P. Sanchez-Blazquez , I. K. Soechting , G. E. Bromage

Despite having data for over 10^9 stars from Gaia, only less than 10^4 star clusters and candidates have been discovered. Particularly, distant star clusters are rarely identified, due to the challenges posed by heavy extinction and great…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Zhihong He , Yangping Luo , Kun Wang , Anbing Ren , Liming Peng , Qian Cui , Xiaochen Liu , Qingquan Jiang

The publication of the Gaia Data Release 2 (Gaia DR2) opens a new era in Astronomy. It includes precise astrometric data (positions, proper motions and parallaxes) for more than $1.3$ billion sources, mostly stars. To analyse such a vast…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 A. Castro-Ginard , C. Jordi , X. Luri , F. Julbe , M. Morvan , L. Balaguer-Núñez , T. Cantat-Gaudin

In this work, we investigate the dynamical properties of 38 Galactic open clusters: 34 of them are located at low Galactic latitudes (|b| < 10$^{\circ}$) and are projected against dense stellar fields; the other 4 comparison objects present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 M. S. Angelo , W. J. B. Corradi , J. F. C. Santos , F. F. S. Maia , F. A. Ferreira

The study of the kinematics of globular clusters (GCs) offers the possibility of unveiling their long term evolution and uncovering their yet unknown formation mechanism. Gaia DR2 has strongly revitalized this field and enabled the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 P. Bianchini

The outer parts of the Milky Way's disc are significantly out of equilibrium. Using only distances and proper motions of stars from Gaia's Early Data Release 3, in the range |b|<10{\deg}, 130{\deg}<l<230{\deg}, we show that for stars in the…

We have cross-matched the LAMOST DR3 with the Gaia DR1 TGAS catalogs and obtained a sample of 166,827 stars with reliable kinematics. A technique based on the wavelet transform was applied to detect significant overdensities in velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-08 Xilong Liang , Jingkun Zhao , Terry D. Oswalt , Yuqin Chen , Lan Zhang , Gang Zhao