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We present new proper motions from the 10 m Keck telescopes for a puzzling population of massive, young stars located within 3.5" (0.14 pc) of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center. Our proper motion measurements have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. R. Lu , A. M. Ghez , S. D. Hornstein , M. R. Morris , E. E. Becklin , K. Matthews

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…

The inner ~200 pc region of the Milky Way contains a nuclear stellar disc and a nuclear star cluster that are embedded in the larger Galactic bar. These stellar systems overlap spatially, which makes it challenging to separate stars that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 A. Feldmeier-Krause , T. Veršič , G. van de Ven , E. Gallego-Cano , N. Neumayer

A and F stars can be used as probes of outer Galactic disk kinematics: here we extend the work of Harris et al. (2018) by crossmatching their A/F sample with Gaia DR2 to bring in proper motions. These are combined with the already measured…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-14 A. Harris , J. E. Drew , M. Monguió

Context. Thanks to recent large scale surveys in the near infrared such as 2MASS, the galactic plane that most suffers from extinction is revealed and its overall structure can be studied. Aims. This work aims at constraining the structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 C. Reyle , D. J. Marshall , A. C. Robin , M. Schultheis

We performed a spectroscopic survey of nearly 700 stars probing the galactic thick disc far from the solar neighbourhood towards the galactic coordinates (l~277, b~47). The derived effective temperatures, surface gravities and overall…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Kordopatis , A. Recio-Blanco , P. de Laverny , G. Gilmore , V. Hill , R. F. G. Wyse , A. Helmi , A. Bijaoui , M. Zoccali , O. Bienaymé

The quality and quantity of 6D stellar position-velocity measurements in the second Gaia data release (DR2) allows to study small-scale structure in the orbit distribution of the Galactic disc beyond the immediate Solar neighborhood. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Wilma H. Trick , Johanna Coronado , Hans-Walter Rix

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

We use the largest open clusters catalogue in the post-Gaia era to provide the observational view of the Galactic disk. By compiling the physical parameters like age, distance, and kinematic information, we investigate the spatial…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-08 Yogesh C. Joshi , Sagar Malhotra

This study explores the density profile of the stellar disk, radially and azimuthally, based on approximately 8.4 million red clump stars selected from Gaia Bp/Rp spectra. After correcting for selection effects and distance uncertainties,…

We investigate the three-dimensional asymmetrical kinematics and present time stamps of the Milky Way disk between Galactocentric distances of $R=12$ and 15 \,kpc, using red clump stars selected from the LAMOST Galactic survey, also with…

We present an exploration of the Milky Way's structural parameters using an all-sky sample of RC giants to map the stellar density from the Galactic disc beyond 3 kpc. These evolved giants are considered to be standard candles due to their…

Using Gaia DR2 astrometry, we map the kinematic signature of the Galactic stellar warp out to a distance of 7 kpc from the Sun. Combining Gaia DR2 and 2MASS photometry, we identify, via a probabilistic approach, 599 494 upper main sequence…

There are few warp kinematic models of the Galaxy able to characterise structure and kinematics. These models are necessary to study the lopsidedness of the warp and the twisting of the line-of-nodes of the stellar warp, already seen in gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 M. Romero-Gómez , C. Mateu , L. Aguilar , F. Figueras , A. Castro-Ginard

We combine GALEX and Gaia DR2 catalogs to track star formation in the outskirts of our Galaxy. Using photometry, proper motions and parallaxes we identify a structure of ~ 300 OB-type candidates located between 12 and 15 kpc from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Dana I. Casetti-Dinescu , Terrence M. Girard

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

The presence of young stars, aged around several million years and situated within the range of $\sim 0.04-1$ pc from our Galactic center raises a question about their origins and dynamical evolutions. Their kinematics provide an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-29 Xiao Fan , Qingwen Wu , Jiancheng Wu , Xiangli Lei , Mengye Wang , Fulin Li

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

Phase-space data, chemistry, and ages together reveal a complex structure in the outer low-${\alpha}$ disc of the Milky Way. The age-vertical velocity dispersion profiles beyond the Solar Neighbourhood show a significant jump at 6 Gyr for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-15 Payel Das , Yang Huang , Ioana Ciuca , Francesca Fragkoudi

The structure and kinematics of the Milky Way disk are largely inferred from the solar vicinity. To gain a comprehensive understanding, it is essential to find reliable tracers in less-explored regions like the bulge and the far side of the…