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Classical Cepheids (CCs) are important probes for the large-scale warp structure of the Milky Way. Using Gaia DR3 CCs, we establish an optimal time-dependent warp model, where the warp height increases with radius following a power-law, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-10 Xiaoyue Zhou , Xiaodian Chen , Licai Deng , Shu Wang , Jiyu Wang , Jianxing Zhang

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

Previous analyses of large databases of Milky Way stars have revealed the stellar disk of our Galaxy to be warped and that this imparts a strong signature on the kinematics of stars beyond the solar neighborhood. However, due to the…

Classical Cepheids (CCs) are excellent tracers for understanding the structure of the Milky Way disk. The latest Gaia Data Release 3 provides a large number of line-of-sight velocity information for Galactic CCs, offering an opportunity for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-27 Xiaoyue Zhou , Xiaodian Chen , Licai Deng , Shu Wang

The Milky Way's neutral hydrogen (HI) disk is warped and flared. However, a dearth of accurate HI-based distances has thus far prevented the development of an accurate Galactic disk model. Moreover, the extent to which our Galaxy's stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-05 Xiaodian Chen , Shu Wang , Licai Deng , Richard de Grijs , Chao Liu , Hao Tian

We determine the influence of the Milky Way's warp on the kinematics of stars across the disc, and therefore measure its precession rate and line of nodes under different assumptions. We do this by applying Jeans' first equation to a model…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-31 Viktor Hrannar Jónsson , Paul J. McMillan

In a cosmological setting, the disc of a galaxy is expected to continuously experience gravitational torques and perturbations from a variety of sources, which can cause the disc to wobble, flare and warp. Specifically, the study of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-19 E. Poggio , R. Drimmel , R. Andrae , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , M. Fouesneau , M. G. Lattanzi , R. L. Smart , A. Spagna

We derive unbiased distance estimates for the Gaia-TGAS dataset by correcting for the bias due to the distance dependence of the selection function, which we measure directly from the data. From these distances and proper motions, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-04 Ralph Schönrich , Walter Dehnen

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 derive the vertical velocities of disk stars in the range of Galactocentric radii of R=5-16 kpc within 2 kpc in height from the Galactic plane. This kinematic information is connected to dynamical aspects in the formation and evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-10 M. Lopez-Corredoira , H. Abedi , F. Garzon , F. Figueras

Recent studies have revealed an oscillating asymmetry in the vertical structure of the Milky Way's disc. Here we analyze 16 high-resolution, fully cosmological simulations of the evolution of individual Milky Way-sized galaxies, carried out…

A linear Ogorodnikov-Milne model is applied to study the three-dimensional kinematics of classical Cepheids in the Milky Way. A sample of 832 classical Cepheids from Mr'oz et al. (2019) with distances, line-of-sight velocities, and proper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-24 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

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

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…

We analyse the three-dimensional structure and kinematics of two samples of young stars in the Galactic disc, containing respectively young giants ($\sim$17$\, $000 stars out to heliocentric distances of $\sim$7 kpc) and classical Cepheids…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-16 E. Poggio , S. Khanna , R. Drimmel , E. Zari , E. D'Onghia , M. G. Lattanzi , P. A. Palicio , A. Recio-Blanco , L. Thulasidharan

We examine the outer Galactic HI disk for deviations from the b=0 plane by constructing maps of disk surface density, mean height, and thickness. We find that the Galactic warp is well described by a vertical offset plus two Fourier modes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. S. Levine , Leo Blitz , Carl Heiles , Martin Weinberg

This Letter presents a study of the geometry and motion of the Galactic disk using open clusters in the Gaia era. The findings suggest that the inclination of the Galactic disk increases gradually from the inner to the outer disk, with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-31 Zhihong He

We present an updated three dimensional map of the Milky Way based on a sample of 2431 classical Cepheid variable stars, supplemented with about 200 newly detected classical Cepheids from the OGLE survey. The new objects were discovered as…

Using a sample of about 123,000 stars with accurate 3D velocity measurements from the LAMOST-TGAS data, we confirm the kinematic signature of the Galactic warp found by Sch\"onrich & Dehnen recently. The data reveal a clear trend of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Yang Huang , R. Schönrich , Xiaowei Liu , Bingqiu Chen , Huawei Zhang , Haibo Yuan , Maosheng Xiang , Chun Wang , Zhijia Tian

The kinematics of about 2000 classical Cepheids of the Milky Way with data from Gaia\,EDR3 catalog has been studied. For some of these stars, there are line-of-sight velocities. On the basis of the nonlinear rotation model, the parameters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova
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