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Data from the revised Geneva--Copenhagen catalog are used to study the influence of radial migration of stars on the age dependences of parameters of the velocity ellipsoids for nearby stars in the thin disk of the Galaxy, assuming that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 V. V. Koval' , V. A. Marsakov , T. V. Borkova

The Galactic centre hosts, according to observations, a number of early-type stars. About one half of those which are orbiting the central supermassive black hole on orbits with projected radii $\gtrsim$ 0.03 pc form a coherently rotating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Jaroslav Haas , Ladislav Subr , Pavel Kroupa

We present a first large-scale kinematic map of $\sim$50,000 young OB stars ($T_{\rm eff} \geq 10,000$ K), based on BOSS spectroscopy from the Milky Way Mapper OB program in the ongoing Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V). Using…

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 present the Galactic disk vertical velocity analysis using OB type stars (OB), Red Clump stars (RC), and Main-Sequence-Turn-Off stars (MSTO) with different average age populations crossed matched with LAMOST DR5 and Gaia DR3. We reveal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-08 Xiang Li , Hai-Feng Wang , Yang-Ping Luo , Martín López-Corredoira , Yuan-Sen Ting , Žofia Chrobáková

We present a comprehensive study of the kinematic properties of the different Galactic disk populations, as defined by the chemical abundance ratios and stellar ages, across a large disk volume (4.5 $\leq$ R $\leq$ 15.0 kpc and $|Z|$ $\leq$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-05 Weixiang Sun , Yang Huang , Han Shen , Chun Wang , Huawei Zhang , Zhijia Tian , Xiaowei Liu , Biwei Jiang

Stellar orbits in the Galactic disc evolve from their birth to the current shape through both radial migration and dynamical heating. The history of their secular evolution is imprinted in the current kinematics and age-metallicity…

The vertical metallicity gradient of the Galactic disk offers valuable insights into the disk's formation and chemical evolution over time. We utilized the LAMOST-LRS young stellar sample to investigate this gradient and found that it…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-03 Gaohuan Long , Haibo Yuan , Shuai Xu , Chun Wang , Ruoyi Zhang , Bowen Huang

[Abridged] We map the stellar age distribution ($\lesssim 1$ Gyr) across a 6kpc$\,\times\,$6kpc area of the Galactic disc to constrain our Galaxy's recent star-formation history. Our modelling draws on the sample of Zari et al. (2021) that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 E. Zari , N. Frankel , H. -W. Rix

The local velocity field of young stars is dominated by the galactic rotation, the kinematics of the Gould Belt and the nearest OB associations and open clusters, and the kinematics of the spiral structure. We re-examined here this local…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Torra , D. Fernandez , F. Figueras

Open clusters (OCs) in the Galaxy are excellent probes for tracing the structure and evolution of the Galactic disk. We present an updated catalog of parameters for 1,145 OCs, estimated using the Gaia DR3 data earlier listed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 Geeta Rangwal , Aman Arya , Annapurni Subramaniam , Kulinder Pal Singh , Xiaowei Liu

Recent observations of the Galactic center revealed a nuclear disk of young OB stars near the massive black hole (MBH), in addition to many similar outlying stars with higher eccentricities and/or high inclinations relative to the disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-16 Hagai. B. Perets , Alessia Gualandris , David Merritt , Tal Alexander

Protostars and young stars are strongly spatially "clustered" or "correlated" within their natal giant molecular clouds (GMCs). We demonstrate that such clustering leads to the conclusion that the incident bolometric radiative flux upon a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Eve J. Lee , Philip F. Hopkins

We present new kinematic measurements and modeling of a sample of 116 young stars in the central parsec of the Galaxy in order to investigate the properties of the young stellar disk. The measurements were derived from a combination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-03-05 Sylvana Yelda , Andrea M. Ghez , Jessica R. Lu , Tuan Do , Leo Meyer , Mark R. Morris , Keith Matthews

The velocity dispersion of nearby stars in the Galactic disc is well known to increase substantially with age; this is the so-called Age-Velocity relation, and is interpreted as a ``heating'' of the disc as a function of time. We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jyrki Hanninen , Chris Flynn

Recent observations of the Galactic center revealed a nuclear disk of young OB stars, in addition to many similar outlying stars with higher eccentricities and/or high inclinations relative to the disk (some of them possibly belonging to a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-19 Hagai B. Perets , Gabor Kupi , Tal Alexander

Kinematic studies of disk galaxies, using individual stars in the Milky Way or statistical studies of global disk kinematics over time, provide insight into how disks form and evolve. We use a high-resolution, cosmological zoom-simulation…

Young massive stars in the central parsec of our Galaxy are best explained by star formation within at least one, and possibly two, massive self-gravitating gaseous discs. With help of numerical simulations, we here consider whether the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Hobbs , Sergei Nayakshin

Stars in the Galactic disc, including the Solar system, have deviated from their birth orbits and have experienced radial mixing and vertical heating. By performing hydrodynamical simulations of a galactic disc, we investigate how much…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Yusuke Fujimoto , Shu-ichiro Inutsuka , Junichi Baba

Vertically extended, high velocity dispersion stellar distributions appear to be a ubiquitous feature of disc galaxies, and both internal and external mechanisms have been proposed to be the major driver of their formation. However, it is…