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Previous work has related the Galactic bar to structure in the local stellar velocity distribution. Here we show that the bar also influences the spatial gradients of the velocity vector via the Oort constants. By numerical integration of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-02-10 Ivan Minchev , Jason Nordhaus , Alice Quillen

Using an outer rotation curve of the Galaxy, we explore the galactic constants and the mass of the Galaxy. We show that \Theta_0 of 200 km/s is more favorable than the IAU standard value of 220 km/s, and also show that if \Theta_0 is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Mareki Honma , Yoshiaki Sofue

The properties of dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way (MW) are useful for testing models of the formation of our Galaxy, and by extension various theories of cosmology. Recent efforts to measure the masses of the MW's satellite dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-12 Thomas Donlon , Sukanya Chakrabarti , Jason A. S. Hunt

The radial acceleration relation (RAR) links observed and baryonic accelerations, and is best established in rotation curves of late-type galaxies. Pulsar timing, which measures line-of-sight (LOS) differential accelerations between the Sun…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-08 Tariq Yasin , Harry Desmond

Our Galaxy is a barred spiral. Recent work based on the COBE NIR data implies a small bulge-bar and a disk with a short scale-length. The corotation radius of the bar is in the range 3-4.5 kpc. The stellar density distribution beyond the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ortwin E. Gerhard

We show that a small, but \textit{measurable} shift in the eclipse mid-point time of eclipsing binary (EBs) stars of $\sim$ 0.1 seconds over a decade baseline can be used to directly measure the Galactic acceleration of stars in the Milky…

Dark matter comprises the bulk of the matter in the universe but its particle nature and cosmological origin remain mysterious. Knowledge of the dark matter density distribution in the Milky Way Galaxy is crucial to both our understanding…

Observational data indicate that the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy. Computation facilities and availability of data from Galactic surveys stimulate the appearance of models of the Galactic structure. More efforts to build dynamical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-18 Tatiana A. Michtchenko , Jacques R. D. Lépine , Douglas A. Barros , Ronaldo S. S. Vieira

The rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way out to $\sim$ 100 kpc has been constructed using $\sim$ 16,000 primary red clump giants (PRCGs) in the outer disk selected from the LSS-GAC and the SDSS-III/APOGEE survey, combined with $\sim$ 5700…

Future microwave sky surveys will have the sensitivity to detect the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich signal from moving galaxy clusters, thus providing a direct measurement of their line-of-sight peculiar velocity. We show that cluster peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Suman Bhattacharya , Arthur Kosowsky

Galactic star clusters are known to harbour a significant amount of binary stars, yet their role in the dynamical evolution of the cluster as a whole is not comprehensively understood. We investigated the influence of binary stars on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-11 L. Yalyalieva , G. Carraro , E. Glushkova , U. Munari , P. Ochner

We use the continuity equation to derive a method for measuring the pattern speed of the Milky Way's bar/bulge from proper motion data. The method has minimal assumptions but requires complete coverage of the non-axisymmetric component in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-21 Jason L. Sanders , Leigh Smith , N. Wyn Evans

We present 3D velocity measurements and acceleration limits for stars within a few parsec of the Galactic Center (GC) black hole, Sgr A*, based on observations of 43 and 86 GHz circumstellar maser emission. Observations were taken with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 Jennie Paine , Jeremy Darling

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 Universe expansion rate is modulated around local inhomogeneities due to their gravitational potential. Velocity waves are then observed around galaxy clusters in the Hubble diagram. This paper studies them in a ~738 Mpc wide, with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Jenny G. Sorce , Roya Mohayaee , Nabila Aghanim , Klaus Dolag , Nicola Malavasi

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

We confirm, quantify, and provide a table of the coherent velocity substructure of the Milky Way disk within 2 kpc of the Sun towards the Galactic anticenter, with 0.2 kpc resolution. We use the radial velocities of ~340,000 F-type stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 Alan N. Pearl , Heidi Jo Newberg , Jeffrey L. Carlin , R. Fiona Smith

The Hipparcos proper motions of 220 galactic Cepheids, together with relevant ground-based photometry, have been analysed. The effects of galactic rotation are very clearly seen. Mean values of the Oort constants, A = 14.82 +/- 0.84…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Michael Feast , Patricia Whitelock

Context. Among the main effects that the Milky Way exerts in binary systems, the Galactic tide is the only one that is not probabilistic and can be deduced from a potential. Therefore, it is possible to perform an analysis of the global…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 J. Correa-Otto , M. F. Calandra , R. A. Gil-Hutton