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[Abridged] We present a medium-resolution spectroscopic survey of late-type giant stars at mid-Galactic latitudes of (30$^{\circ}<|b|<60^{\circ}$), designed to probe the properties of this population to distances of $\sim$9 kpc. Because M…

We examine the distribution of young stars associated with the spiral arms of a simulated L* cosmological disk galaxy. We find age patterns orthogonal to the arms which are not inconsistent with the predictions of classical density wave…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-03-12 K. Pilkington , B. K. Gibson , D. H. Jones

Star clusters in 6 nearby spiral galaxies are examined using archive images from HST/WFPC2. The galaxies have previously been studied from the ground and some of them are known to possess rich populations of "young massive clusters" (YMCs).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Soeren S. Larsen

The quality and quantity of 6D stellar position-velocity measurements in the second Gaia data release (DR2) allows to study small-scale structure in the orbit distribution of the Galactic disc beyond the immediate Solar neighborhood. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Wilma H. Trick , Johanna Coronado , Hans-Walter Rix

We present deep Halpha images of three nearby late-type spiral galaxies (NGC628, NGC1058 and NGC6946), which reveal the presence of HII regions out to, and beyond, two optical radii (defined by the 25th B-band isophote). The outermost HII…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Annette Ferguson , Rosemary Wyse , Jay Gallagher , Deidre Hunter

We apply the vertical Jeans equation to the Milky Way disk, in order to study non-axisymmetric variations in the thin disk surface density. We divide the disk plane into area cells with a 100 pc grid spacing, and use four separate subsets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-05 Axel Widmark , Aneesh P. Naik

Circumstellar disks are an essential ingredient of the formation of low-mass stars. It is unclear, however, whether the accretion-disk paradigm can also account for the formation of stars more massive than about 10 solar masses, in which…

We studied the spatial distribution of young and old stellar populations along the western half part of the minor axis of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using Washington MT1 photometry of selected fields, which span a deprojected distance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Andrés E. Piatti

We use kinematical and chemical properties of 754 Corot stars to characterise the stellar populations of the Milky Way disc in three beams close the Galactic plane. From the atmospheric parameters derived in Gazzano et al. (2010) with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 J. -C. Gazzano , G. Kordopatis , M. Deleuil , P. de Laverny , A. Recio-Blanco , V. Hill

We have used the self-consistent vertical disc models of the solar neighbourhood presented in Just & Jahreiss (2010), which are based on different star formation histories (SFR) and fit the local kinematics of main sequence stars equally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-01 Andreas Just , Shuang Gao , Simon Vidrih

We select 1,052,469 (754,635) thin disk stars from {\it Gaia} eDR3 and LAMOST DR7 in the range of Galactocentric radius $R$ (guiding center radius $R_\mathrm{g}$) from 8 to 11\,kpc to investigate the asymmetries between the North and South…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-10 Jun Lin , Rui Guo , Sarah A. Bird , Haijun Tian , Chao Liu , Chris Flynn , Gaochao Liu , Sheng Cui

Nearly 400 Tycho-2 stars have been observed in a 720 square degree field in the direction of the North Galactic Pole with the high resolution echelle spectrograph ELODIE. Absolute magnitudes, effective temperatures, gravities and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Soubiran , O. Bienaymé , A. Siebert

We present homogeneous $V,I$ CCD photometry of nine stellar fields in the two inner quadrants of the Galactic plane. The lines-of-view to most of these fields aim in the direction of the very inner Galaxy, where the Galactic field is very…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Anton Seleznev , Giovanni Carraro , Edgardo Costa , Alexhander Loktin

We study the growth of stellar discs of Milky Way-sized galaxies using a suite of cosmological simulations. We calculate the half-mass axis lengths and axis ratios of stellar populations split by age in isolated galaxies with stellar mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-16 Xi Meng , Oleg Y. Gnedin

Average stellar orbits of the Galactic disk may have some small intrinsic ellipticity which breaks the exact axisymmetry and there may also be some migration of stars inwards or outwards. Both phenomena can be detected through kinematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 M. Lopez-Corredoira , C. Gonzalez-Fernandez

The galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) at high-z provides key information on star-formation history and mass assembly in the young Universe. We aimed to use the unique combination of deep optical/NIR/MIR imaging provided by HST, Spitzer…

Previous studies of the Carina region have revealed its complexity and richness as well as a significant number of early-type stars. In many cases, these studies only concentrated on the central region or were not homogeneous. This latter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 J. A. Molina-Lera , G. Baume , R. Gamen , E. Costa , G. Carraro

We have investigated the distributions of stellar azimuthal and radial velocity components $V_{\Phi}$ and $V_{R}$ in the vertical position-velocity plane $Z$-$V_{Z}$ across the Galactic disc of $6.34 \lesssim R \lesssim 12.34$\,kpc and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-29 C. Wang , Y. Huang , H. -B. Yuan , M. -S. Xiang , B. -Q. Chen , H. -F. Wang , Y. -Q. Wu , H. -W. Zhang , Z. -J. Tian , Y. Yang , M. Zhang , X. -W. Liu

The space velocities and Galactic orbital elements of stars calculated from the currently available high-accuracy observations in our summary catalog of spectroscopic magnesium abundances in dwarfs and subgiants in the solar neighborhood…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. A. Marsakov , T. V. Borkova

The main observational results from radio continuum and polarization observations about the magnetic field strength and large-scale pattern for face-on and edge-on spiral galaxies are summarized and compared within our sample of galaxies of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-07 Marita Krause