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We present new absolute proper motion measurements for the Arches and Quintuplet clusters, two young massive star clusters near the Galactic center. Using multi-epoch HST observations, we construct proper motion catalogs for the Arches…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-09 Matthew W. Hosek , Tuan Do , Jessica R. Lu , Mark R. Morris , Andrea M. Ghez , Gregory D. Martinez , Jay Anderson

Most Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) exhibit measurable flattening, even if on a very low level. Both cluster rotation and tidal fields are thought to cause this flattening. Nevertheless, rotation has only been confirmed in a handful of…

CONTEXT. Gaia EDR3 has produced parallaxes for 1.468x10^9 sources but there are calibration issues that require corrections to the published values and uncertainties. AIMS. We want to characterize the behavior of the uncertainties of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 J. Maíz Apellániz , M. Pantaleoni González , R. H. Barbá

A new method for determining the nature of the orbital motion (chaotic or regular) of globular clusters in the central region of the Galaxy with a radius of 3.5 kpc, which are most affected by the bar, is proposed. The method is based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-30 Anisa Bajkova , Anton Smirnov , Vadim Bobylev

We study the distribution of projected ellipticity n(epsilon) for galaxies in a sample of 20 rich (Richness >= 2) nearby (z < 0.1) clusters of galaxies. We find no evidence of differences in n(epsilon), although the nearest cluster in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Francesco D'Eugenio , Ryan C. W. Houghton , Roger L. Davies , Elena Dalla Bontà

In this paper, we analyze 10 globular clusters in order to measure their rotational properties by using high precision radial velocity data from the SDSS-IV APOGEE-2 survey. Out of the 10 clusters we were able to successfully measure the…

Although previous searches for star clusters have been very successful, many clusters are likely still omitted, especially at high Galactic latitude regions. In this work, based on the astrometry of Gaia EDR3, we searched nearby (parallax >…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Zhihong He , Kun Wang , Yangping Luo , Jing Li , Xiaochen Liu , Qingquan Jiang

This is the first of a series of papers presenting the results from our survey of 25 Galactic globular clusters with the MUSE integral-field spectrograph. In combination with our dedicated algorithm for source deblending, MUSE provides…

We have studied the influence of an evolving gravitational potential of the Milky Way Galaxy on the orbital motion of 152 globular clusters with proper motions from the Gaia EDR3 catalogue and mean distances from Baumgardt and Vasiliev…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-23 A. T. Bajkova , A. A. Smirnov , V. V. Bobylev

A growing number of Milky Way globular clusters have been identified to possess a noticeable degree of solid-body rotation. For several clusters, the combination of stellar proper motions and radial velocities allows for 3-dimensional spin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 Ciaran A. J. O'Hare , Alberto Krone-Martins , Celine Boehm , Roland M. Crocker

Several observational studies have shown that many Galactic globular clusters (GCs) are characterised by internal rotation. Theoretical studies of the dynamical evolution of rotating clusters have predicted that, during their long-term…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-05 M. Scalco , A. Livernois , E. Vesperini , M. Libralato , A. Bellini , L. R. Bedin

If properly calibrated, the shapes of galaxy clusters can be used to investigate many physical processes: from feedback and quenching of star formation, to the nature of dark matter. Theorists frequently measure shapes using moments of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-11 David Harvey , Andrew Robertson , Sut-Ieng Tam , Mathilde Jauzac , Richard Massey , Jason Rhodes , Ian G. McCarthy

We present the results of determining the parameters characterizing the shape and orientation of residual velocity ellipsoids from the Gaia DR3 red giants and subgiants. We show the distribution of velocity dispersions in the Galactic plane…

We present a pilot study of Galactic globular cluster (GC) proper motion (PM) determinations using Gaia data. We search for GC stars in the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) catalogue from Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1), and identify five…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-22 Laura L. Watkins , Roeland P. van der Marel

We present new measurements of the centers for 65 Milky Way globular clusters. Centers were determined by fitting ellipses to the density distribution within the inner $2\arcmin$ of the cluster center, and averaging the centers of these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Ryan Goldsbury , Harvey B. Richer , Jay Anderson , Aaron Dotter , Ata Sarajedini , Kristin Woodley

We present a family of self-consistent axisymmetric rotating globular cluster models which are fitted to spectroscopic data for NGC 362, NGC 1851, NGC 2808, NGC 4372, NGC 5927 and NGC 6752 to provide constraints on their physical and…

The large astrometric and photometric survey performed by the Gaia mission allows for a panoptic view of the Galactic disc and in its stellar cluster population. Hundreds of clusters were only discovered after the latest G data release…

A comparative analysis of the dynamics of the orbital motion (regular or chaotic) of 45 globular clusters in the central region of the Galaxy with a radius of 3.5 kpc is carried out. The static and evolving (based on the semi-analytical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-05 Anisa Bajkova , Anton Smirnov , Vadim Bobylev

The peripheral regions of globular clusters (GCs) are extremely challenging to study due to their low surface brightness nature and the dominance of Milky Way contaminant populations along their sightlines. We have developed a probabilistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Pete B. Kuzma , Annette M. N. Ferguson , Jorge Peñarrubia

We aim at a detailed description of the kinematic properties of the old, (several Gyrs) late-type CO-absorption star population among the Galactic centre (GC) cluster stars. We applied AO-assisted, near-infrared imaging and integral-field…