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OB associations, as an intermediate stage between Galactic clusters and field stars, play an important role in understanding the star formation process, early stellar evolution, and Galactic evolution. In this work, we construct a large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-12 Zhicun Liu , Xiao-Long Wang , Wenyuan Cui , Jianrong Shi , Chao Liu , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Min Fang , Yang Huang , Guozhen Hu , Gang Zhao

The rotation curve (RC) of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is constructed starting from its very inner regions (few hundred pc) out to a large Galactocentric distance of $\sim 200$ kpc using kinematical data on a variety of tracer objects moving…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Pijushpani Bhattacharjee , Soumini Chaudhury , Susmita Kundu

Based on Cepheids located near the solar circle, we have determined the Galactocentric distance of the Sun $R_0$ and the Galactic rotation velocity at the solar distance $V_0$. For our analysis we used a sample of $\sim$200 classical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-12 Vadim V. Bobylev

We present a sample of 254,882 luminous red giant branch (LRGB) stars selected from the APOGEE and LAMOST surveys. By combining photometric and astrometric information from the 2MASS and Gaia surveys, the precise distances of the sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 Yuan Zhou , Xinyi Li , Yang Huang , Huawei Zhang

We have determined the Galactic rotation parameters and the solar Galactocentric distance R_0 by simultaneously solving Bottlinger's kinematic equations using data on masers with known line-of-sight velocities and highly accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-04 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

In the present paper, we aim to determine the kinematical properties, velocity ellipsoid, and Oort constants using a sample of halo red giants. The study is based mainly on the space and radial velocities of about 1583 red giant stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Mohamed I. Nouh , Waleed H. Elsanhoury

As part of on an extensive data mining effort, we have compiled a database of 162 Galactic rotation speed measurements at $R_0$ (the solar Galactocentric distance), $\Theta_0$. Published between 1927 and 2017 June, this represents the most…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 Richard de Grijs , Giuseppe Bono

I present three methods to determine the distance to the Galactic centre R0, the solar azimuthal velocity in the Galactic rest frame Vg,\odot and hence the local circular speed Vc at R0. These simple, model-independent strategies reduce the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Ralph Schönrich

It is common to attribute a flat rotation curve to our Galaxy. However Galazutdinov et al. (2015) in a recent paper have obtained a Keplerian rotation curve for interstellar clouds in outer parts of the Galaxy. They have calculated the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-07 P. Gnaciński , T. Młynik

We use about 200,000 FGK type main-sequence stars from the LAMOST DR1 data to map the local stellar kinematics. With the velocity de-projection technique, we are able to derive the averaged 3 dimensional velocity and velocity ellipsoids…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Hai-Jun Tian , Chao Liu , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Yong-Heng Zhao , Xue-Lei Chen , Yue Wu , Guang-Wei Li , Yong-Hui Hou , Yong Zhang

Rotational curves are measured for almost complete sample of 308 northern spiral galaxies using the 6-m telescope. For observations we selected edge-on galaxies from RFGC catalog with apparent axial ratio a/b>8, angular diameter a<2', and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. I. Makarov , I. D. Karachentsev , A. N. Burenkov

We determine the rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way in the range 6 < R < 18 kpc using a sample of 903 carefully selected classical Cepheids with precise proper motions and high-quality radial velocities from \emph{Gaia} DR3. Their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-29 Qikang Feng , Yang Huang , Huawei Zhang , Jifeng Liu

The spatial velocities of the stars with high-precision positions, proper motions and parallaxes from the Gaia TGAS catalog and line-of-sight velocities from the RAVE5 catalog are considered. From the sample of 92395 stars with the age…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 V. V. Vityazev , A. S. Tsvetkov , V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

A linear Ogorodnikov-Milne model is applied to study the three-dimensional kinematics of classical Cepheids in the Milky Way. A sample of 832 classical Cepheids from Mr'oz et al. (2019) with distances, line-of-sight velocities, and proper…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-24 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

We have used the ARGUS multi-object spectrometer at the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope to obtain 2756 radial velocity measurements for 1966 individual stars in the globular cluster omega Centauri brighter than blue photographic magnitude of about…

Based on published sources, we have created a kinematic database on 220 massive (>10 solar masses) young Galactic star systems located within <3 kpc of the Sun. Out of them, approximately 100 objects are spectroscopic binary and multiple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-08 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

With the increasing numbers of large stellar survey projects, the quality and quantity of excellent tracers to study the Milky Way is rapidly growing, one of which is the classical Cepheids. Classical Cepheids are high precision standard…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-25 Iminhaji Ablimit , Gang Zhao , Chris Flynn , Sarah A. Bird

Many spiral galaxies show a large-scale asymmetry with a cos\phi dependence in their rotation curves as well as in their morphology, such as M101 and NGC 628. We show that both these features can be explained by the response of a galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Chanda J. Jog

Based on kinematic data on masers with known trigonometric parallaxes and measurements of the velocities of HI clouds at tangential points in the inner Galaxy, we have refined the parameters of the Allen-Santillan model Galactic potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-10-29 Vadim Bobylev , Anisa Bajkova