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Moving groups in the solar neighborhood are ensembles of co-moving stars, likely originating due to forces from spiral arms, the Galactic bar, or external perturbations. Their co-movement with young clusters indicates recent star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Cameren Swiggum , João Alves , Elena D'Onghia

The relationship between young stellar clusters and respective parental molecular clouds is still an open issue: for instance, are the similarities between substructures of clouds and clusters just a coincidence? Or would they be the…

We modeled the trajectories of material ejected from 20 nearby debris disk stars, including Epsilon Eridani (Ran), Vega, Fomalhaut, and Beta Pictoris, within a simulated Milky Way potential in order to quantify their contribution to the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Cole R. Gregg , Paul A. Wiegert

We improve the identification and isolation of individual stellar populations in the Galactic halo based on an updated set of empirically calibrated stellar isochrones in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Deokkeun An , Timothy C. Beers

Interstellar objects (ISOs) ejected from planetary systems carry kinematic signatures of their formation environments. The properties of these velocity distributions govern the ISOs' propagation and dynamical evolution in the Galactic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Leah Albrow , Michele T. Bannister , John C. Forbes , David Nesvorný

The Milky Way is a unique laboratory, where stellar properties can be measured and analyzed in detail. In particular, stars in the older populations encode information on the mechanisms that led to the formation of our Galaxy. In this…

The non-detection of a coma surrounding 1I/`Oumuamua, the first discovered interstellar object (ISO), has prompted a variety of hypotheses to explain its nongravitational acceleration. Given that forthcoming surveys are poised to identify…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-21 Samuel H. C. Cabot , Q. Daniel Wang , Darryl Z. Seligman

Recent studies have identified star clusters with multiple components based on accurate spatial distributions and/or proper motions from Gaia DR3, utilising diverse diagnostics to improve our understanding of subgroup evolution. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-02 J. Gregorio-Hetem , A. Hetem

We present chemodynamical simulations of a Milky Way-type galaxy using a self-consistent hydrodynamical code that includes supernova feedback and chemical enrichment, and predict the spatial distribution of elements from Oxygen to Zinc. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Chiaki Kobayashi , Naohito Nakasato

The interstellar medium (ISM) is an inseparable part of the Milky Way ecosystem whose evolutionary history remains a challenging question. We trace the evolution of the molecular ISM using a sample of Young Stellar Objects (YSO) association…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-20 Guang-Xing Li , Ji-Xuan Zhou , Bing-Qiu Chen

We explore the phase-space structure of nearby halo stars identified kinematically from Gaia DR2 data. We focus on their distribution in velocity and in "integrals of motion" space as well as on their photometric properties. Our sample of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-27 Helmer H. Koppelman , Amina Helmi , Jovan Veljanoski

The first interstellar objects, 1I/`Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS, were discovered over the past decade. We follow the trajectories of known interstellar objects in the gravitational potential of the Milky Way galaxy to constrain their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-08 Shokhruz Kakharov , Abraham Loeb

We studied 12 disk streams found in a 250$^3$ pc$^3$ volume in the solar neighborhood, which we define as coeval and comoving stellar structures with aspect ratios greater than 3:1. Using Gaia Data Release 3 data and the advanced clustering…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-11 Sebastian Ratzenböck , João Alves , Emily L. Hunt , Núria Miret-Roig , Stefan Meingast , Torsten Möller

The second data release from ESA's Gaia mission has revealed many ridge-like structures in the velocity distribution of the Milky Way. We show that these can arise naturally from winding transient spiral structure that is commonly seen in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 Jason A. S. Hunt , Jack Hong , Jo Bovy , Daisuke Kawata , Robert J. J. Grand

We present a comprehensive kinematic analysis of the solar neighborhood (d < 50 pc) using high-precision astrometric data from the third Gaia Data Release (DR3). By leveraging the full six dimensional phase space information (positions and…

General Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Anmay Raj

(Abridged) The present-day spatial and kinematic distribution of stars in the Milky Way provides key constraints on its internal dynamics and evolutionary history. We select stars that are more metal-rich than the interstellar medium (ISM)…

The hierarchical structure formation model predicts that stellar halos should form, at least partly, via mergers. If this was a predominant formation channel for the Milky Way's halo, imprints of this merger history in the form of moving…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-01 Amina Helmi , Jovan Veljanoski , Maarten A. Breddels , Hao Tian , Laura V. Sales

The upcoming commencement of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space of Time (LSST) will greatly enhance the discovery rate of interstellar objects (ISOs). `Oumuamua and Borisov were the first two ISOs confirmed in the Solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Amir Siraj , Abraham Loeb

We present new mm interferometric and optical integral-field unit (IFU) observations and construct a sample of 12 E and S0 galaxies with molecular gas which have both CO and optical maps. The galaxies contain 2 x 10^7 to 5 x 10^9 M\odot of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Alison F. Crocker , Martin Bureau , Lisa M. Young , Francoise Combes

This work is the continuation of a series attempting to characterize the local warm ionized medium through both static and time dependent simulations. We build upon our three dimensional, observationally-derived simulation of the local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Lewis McCallum , Kenneth Wood , Robert Benjamin , Dhanesh Krishnarao , Anna F. McLeod