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We utilize a novel numerical technique to model star formation in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation - called Superstars - to simulate a Milky Way-like galaxy with $\gtrsim10^8$ star particles to study the formation and evolution…

The escape velocity profile of the Milky Way offers a crucial and independent measurement of its underlying mass distribution and dark matter properties. Using a sample of stars from Gaia DR3 with 6D kinematics and strict quality cuts, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-02 Cian Roche , Lina Necib , Tongyan Lin , Xiaowei Ou , Tri Nguyen

We determine the rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way in the range 6 < R < 18 kpc using a sample of 903 carefully selected classical Cepheids with precise proper motions and high-quality radial velocities from \emph{Gaia} DR3. Their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-29 Qikang Feng , Yang Huang , Huawei Zhang , Jifeng Liu

We explore the possibility of detecting and characterizing the warp of the stellar disc of our Galaxy using synthetic Gaia data. The availability of proper motions and, for the brightest stars radial velocities, adds a new dimension to this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 H. Abedi , C. Mateu , L. A. Aguilar , F. Figueras , M. Romero-Gomez

We align more than 7,400 WFC3/UVIS exposures to the Gaia DR3 catalog to examine the time evolution of the linear terms (shift, rotation, scale and skew) of the geometric distortion solution between 2009 and 2022. We find small linear…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-05 Anne O'Connor , Varun Bajaj , Jennifer Mack , Annalisa Calamida

We examine the Galactic warp in a sample of all classical Cepheids with Gaia DR3 radial velocity. In each radial bin, we determine (1) the inclined plane normal to the mean orbital angular momentum of the stars and (2) that best fitting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 Walter Dehnen , Marcin Semczuk , Ralph Schönrich

We present the results of determining the parameters of the spiral arms of the Galaxy using the stars Gaia DR3, whose absolute magnitude is $M_G$ < 4, and which allow tracing spiral arms at large distances from the Sun. As tracers of spiral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-29 S. I. Denyshchenko , P. N. Fedorov , V. S. Akhmetov , A. B. Velichko , A. M. Dmytrenko

Gaia EDR3 has provided proper motions of Milky Way (MW) dwarf galaxies with an unprecedented accuracy, which allows us to investigate their orbital properties. We found that the total energy and angular momentum of MW dwarf galaxies are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-03 Yang Y. , Hammer F. , Li H. , Pawlowski M. S. , Wang J. L. , Babusiaux C. , Mamon G. A. , Bonifacio P. , Jiao Y. , Wang H.

Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) contains results for 1.812 billion sources in the magnitude range G = 3 to 21 based on observations collected by the European Space Agency Gaia satellite during the first 34 months of its operational…

We analyse from an observational perspective the formation history and kinematics of a Milky Way-like galaxy from a high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulation that we compare to those of our Galaxy as seen by Gaia DR2 to better…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-05 M. Giammaria , A. Spagna , M. G. Lattanzi , G. Murante , P. Re Fiorentin , M. Valentini

Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3) contains the second release of the combined radial velocities. It is based on the spectra collected during the first 34 months of the nominal mission. The longer time baseline and the improvements of the…

Gaia data have revealed vertically asymmetric phase-space structures in the Milky Way (MW) disc, such as phase spirals, indicating vertical oscillations. These oscillations exhibit two distinct modes: the bending mode and the breathing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-14 Tetsuro Asano , Michiko S. Fujii , Junichi Baba , Simon Portegies Zwart , Jeroen Bédorf

The third data release (DR3) of the European Space Agency satellite Gaia provides coordinates, parallaxes, proper motions, and radial velocities for a sample of $\sim 34$ million stars. We use the combined 6-dimensional phase space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-06 Tommaso Marchetti , Fraser A. Evans , Elena Maria Rossi

Vertical stellar kinematics+density can be used to trace the dark matter distribution [or the equivalent phantom mass in a Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) scenario] through Jeans equations. In this paper, we want to improve this type of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-16 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

We report the detection of spiral substructure in both the gas velocity and temperature structure of the disk around TW~Hya, suggestive of planet-disk interactions with an unseen planet. Perturbations from Keplerian rotation tracing out a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Richard Teague , Jaehan Bae , Jane Huang , Edwin Bergin

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…

We provide an updated inference of the proper motion of M31 using the Gaia DR3 proper motions of bright stars from the disc of M31. By refining the motion of the quasar reference frame, and statistically accounting for the variations in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Samuel Rusterucci , Nicolas F. Martin , Else Starkenburg , Rodrigo Ibata

CONTEXT. Gaia EDR3 has produced parallaxes for 1.468x10^9 sources but there are calibration issues that require corrections to the published values and uncertainties. AIMS. We want to characterize the behavior of the uncertainties of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 J. Maíz Apellániz , M. Pantaleoni González , R. H. Barbá

Context. As part of Gaia Data Release 3 (Gaia DR3), epoch photometry has been released for 1.2 million sources centred on M31. This is a taster for Gaia Data Release 4 where all the epoch photometry will be released. Aims. In this paper the…

The morphology and kinematics of the spiral structure of the Milky Way is a long-standing problem in astrophysics. In this review we firstly summarize various methods with different tracers used to solve this puzzle. The astrometry of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 Ye Xu , Ligang Hou , Yuanwei Wu
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