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Results from the Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA) are presented. BRAVA uses M giant stars, selected from the 2MASS catalog to lie within a bound of reddening corrected color and luminosity, as targets for the Cerro Tololo Inter-American…

We present new radial velocity measurements from the Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA), a large scale spectroscopic survey of M-type giants in the Galactic bulge/bar region. The sample of ~4500 new radial velocities, mostly in the region…

We present recent results from a Keck study of the composition of the Galactic bulge, as well as results from the bulge Bulge Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA). Culminating a 10 year investigation, Fulbright, McWilliam, & Rich (2006, 2007)…

We present new results from BRAVA, a large scale radial velocity survey of the Galactic bulge, using M giant stars selected from the Two Micron All Sky Survey catalogue as targets for the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory 4m Hydra…

The Bulge Radial Velocity/Abundance Assay (BRAVA) has accomplished a survey of 10,000 red giants in the Southern Galactic bulge, approximately spanning -8 deg. < l < +8 deg. and -3 deg. <b < -8 deg., a region within roughly 1 kpc from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-08-31 R. Michael Rich

Radial velocities of 2768 fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) toward the Southern Galactic bulge are presented, spanning the southern bulge from -8 < l < +8 and -3 < b <-6. Distances derived from the pulsation properties of the RRLs are…

Until the recent advent of $Gaia$ Data Release 2 (DR2) and deep multi-object spectroscopy, it has been difficult to obtain 6-D phase space information for large numbers of stars beyond 4 kpc, in particular towards the Galactic centre, where…

We present radial velocities for approximately 40 stars in each of three optically obscured, off-axis, fields toward the Galactic bulge. Combined with the data presented by Blum et al. (1994), we now have mean radial velocities and radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Robert Blum , John Carr , Kris Sellgren , Don Terndrup

We present 947 radial velocities of RR Lyrae variable stars in four fields located toward the Galactic bulge, observed within the data from the ongoing Bulge RR Lyrae Radial Velocity Assay (BRAVA-RR). We show that these RR Lyrae stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Andrea Kunder , R. M. Rich , J. Storm , D. M. Nataf , R. De Propris , A. R. Walker , G. Bono , C. I. Johnson , J. Shen , Z. Y. Li

We analyze the kinematics and spatial distribution of 15,599 fundamental-mode RR Lyrae (RRL) stars in the Milky Way bulge by combining OGLE-IV photometric data and Gaia DR2 proper motions. We show that the longitudinal proper motions and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Hangci Du , Shude Mao , E. Athanassoula , Juntai Shen , Pawel Pietrukowicz

Recently the commissioning APOGEE observations of the Galactic bulge reported that a significant fraction of stars ($\sim10%$) are in a cold ($\sigma_{\rm V} \approx 30$ km/s) high velocity peak (Galactocentric radial velocity $\approx 200$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhao-Yu Li , Juntai Shen , R. Michael Rich , Andrea Kunder , Shude Mao

We present radial velocities for a sample of 723 planetary nebulae (PNe) in the disk and bulge of M31, measured using the WYFFOS fibre spectrograph on the William Herschel telescope. Velocities are determined using the [OIII] 5007 Angstrom…

We present new bulge stellar velocity dispersion measurements for 10 active galaxies with secure $M_{BH}$ determinations from reverberation-mapping. These new velocity dispersion measurements are based on spatially resolved kinematics from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Merida Batiste , Misty C. Bentz , Emily R. Manne-Nicholas , Christopher A. Onken , Matthew A. Bershady

We analyse velocity, chemical abundance and spatial distribution data for some 1500 K- and M- giants in the Galactic Bulge. The bulge has a well-determined linear rotation curve over the range $\rm 700pc \le R \le 3500pc$ with amplitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rodrigo Ibata , Gerard Gilmore

In this paper we analyse a sample of 46 barred galaxies of MaNGA. Our goal is to investigate the stellar kinematics of these galaxies and obtain their rotation curves. Additionally, we aim to derive the total stellar and dynamical masses,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-07 Eduardo O. Schmidt , Damián Mast , Gaia Gaspar , Walter A. Weidmann

We derive circular velocity curves (CVCs) from stellar dynamical models for $\sim6000$ nearby galaxies in the final data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-IV MaNGA survey with integral-field spectroscopy, exploring connections between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-02 Kai Zhu , Michele Cappellari , Shude Mao , Shengdong Lu , Ran Li , Yong Shi , David A. Simon , Youquan Fu , Xiaohan Wang

Recent spectroscopic and photometric surveys are providing a comprehensive view of the MW bulge stellar population properties with unprecedented accuracy. This in turn allows us to explore the correlation between kinematics and stellar…

To gain a better understanding of the Andromeda galaxy M31 and its role in the Local Group, measuring its mass precisely is essential. In this work, we have constructed the rotation curve of M31 out to $\sim$125 kpc using 13,679 M31 objects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-04 Xiangwei Zhang , Bingqiu Chen , Pinjian Chen , Jiarui Sun , Zhijia Tian

We address the issue of accuracy in recovering density profiles from observations of rotation curves of galaxies. We ``observe'' and analyze our models in much the same way as observers do the real galaxies. We find that the tilted ring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 George Rhee , Octavio Valenzuela , Anatoly Klypin , Jon Holtzman , Bhasker Moorthy

Here we present a kinematic study of the Galactic halo out to a radius of $\sim$ 60 kpc, using 4664 blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars selected from the SDSS/SEGUE survey, to determine key dynamical properties. Using a maximum likelihood…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-12-04 Prajwal R. Kafle , Sanjib Sharma , Geraint F. Lewis , Joss Bland-Hawthorn
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