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We present a novel method combining existing cosmological simulations and orbital integration to study the hierarchical assembly of globular cluster (GC) populations in the Milky Way (MW). Our method models the growth and evolution of GC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Pierre Boldrini , Paola Di Matteo , Chervin Laporte , Oscar Agertz , Sergey Khoperskov , Giulia Pagnini

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

We report the result of searching for globular clusters (GCs) around 55 Milky Way satellite dwarf galaxies within the distance of 450 kpc from the Galactic Center except for the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and the Sagittarius dwarf.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Kuan-Wei Huang , Sergey E. Koposov

$Context$. The assembly history experienced by the Milky Way is currently being unveiled thanks to the data provided by the $Gaia$ mission. It is likely that the globular cluster system of our Galaxy has followed a similarly intricate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-25 Davide Massari , Helmer H. Koppelman , Amina Helmi

We have derived the mean proper motions and space velocities of 154 Galactic globular clusters and the velocity dispersion profiles of 141 globular clusters based on a combination of Gaia DR2 proper motions with ground-based line-of-sight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 H. Baumgardt , M. Hilker , A. Sollima , A. Bellini

We present orbits and their properties for 152 globular clusters of the Milky Way galaxy obtained using average Gaia DR2 proper motions and other astrometric data from the list of Vasiliev (2019). For orbit integrating we have used the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-08 A. T. Bajkova , V. V. Bobylev

A model for the mass in and around the Local Group previously used to fit redshifts of dwarf galaxies to their distances between 50 kpc and 2.6 Mpc under the condition of small and growing primeval departures from homogeneity is shown to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-16 P. J. E. Peebles

Globular clusters (GCs) are evolved stellar systems containing entire populations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which are efficient gamma-ray emitters. Observations of this emission can be used as a powerful tool to explore the dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Raniere de Menezes , Fabio Cafardo , Rodrigo Nemmen

The currently known Galactic globular cluster population extends out to a maximum galactocentric distance of $\sim$ 145 kpc, with the peculiarity that the outermost clusters predominantly have an inward velocity. Orbit averaging finds that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 Jeremy J. Webb , Raymond G. Carlberg

In order to find the possible progenitors of Milky Way globular clusters, we perform orbit integrations to track the orbits of 170 Galactic globular clusters and the eleven classical Milky Way satellite galaxies backwards in time for 11 Gyr…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Pierre Boldrini , Jo Bovy

Open star clusters are dynamic systems whose evolution is critically influenced by initial conditions such as star formation efficiency and orbital parameters. Understanding their dissolution mechanisms provides insight into stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 M. Ishchenko , V. Masliukh , M. Hradov , P. Berczik , B. Shukirgaliyev , C. Omarov

The dynamical evolution of the globular cluster systems in galaxies is predicted, based on the standard dynamical theory normalized to the example of the Milky Way. The major processes varying with the galactocentric distance are the tidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Given the inexorable increase in the Sun's luminosity, Earth will exit the habitable zone in ~1 Gyr. There is a negligible chance that Earth's orbit will change during that time through internal Solar System dynamics. However, there is a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-22 Sean N. Raymond , Nathan A. Kaib , Franck Selsis , Herve Bouy

We review the implications of the Gaia Data Release 2 catalogue for studying the dynamics of Milky Way globular clusters, focusing on two separate topics. The first one is the analysis of the full 6-dimensional phase-space distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Eugene Vasiliev

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

We cross-match objects from several different astronomical catalogs to determine the absolute proper proper motions of stars within the 30-arcmin radius fields of 115 Milky-Way globular clusters with the accuracy of 1--2~mas/yr. The proper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 A. A. Chemel , E. V. Glushkova , A. K. Dambis , A. S. Rastorguev , L. N. Yalyalieva

Context. It is crucial to understand the interaction between globular clusters (GCs) and the Oort cloud, as close flybys of such massive objects can significantly disturb the cloud's structure and redirect comets towards the inner Solar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-21 M. Ishchenko , P. Berczik

We construct a model for the Galactic globular cluster system based on a realistic gravitational potential and a distribution function (DF) analytic in the action integrals. The DF comprises disc and halo components whose functional forms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 James Binney , Leong Khim Wong

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

The frequency of Galactic stellar encounters the Solar system experienced depends on the local density and velocity dispersion along the orbit of the Sun in the Milky Way galaxy. We aim at determining the effect of the radial migration of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 C. A. Martínez-Barbosa , L. Jílková , S. Portegies Zwart , A. G. A. Brown