Astrophysical: Milky Way dynamics

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    A Blueprint for the Milky Way's Stellar Populations. IV. A String of Pearls-the Galactic Starburst Sequence

    We continue our series of papers on phase-space distributions of stars in the Milky Way based on photometrically derived metallicities and Gaia astrometry, with...

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    Diagonal Ridge Pattern of Different Age Populations Found in Gaia-DR2 with LAMOST Main-sequence Turnoff and OB-type Stars

    We revisit the diagonal ridge feature (diagonal distributions in the R, vφ plane) found in Gaia and present a timing analysis for it between Galactocentric...

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    Does the Milky Way move like a spinning top?

    An investigation carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Žofia Chrobáková, a doctoral student at the IAC and the...

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    Exploring the Galactic Warp through Asymmetries in the Kinematics of the Galactic Disk

    Previous analyses of large databases of Milky Way stars have revealed the stellar disk of our Galaxy to be warped and that this imparts a strong signature on...

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    Orbital Torus Imaging: Using Element Abundances to Map Orbits and Mass in the Milky Way

    Many approaches to galaxy dynamics assume that the gravitational potential is simple and the distribution function is time invariant. Under these assumptions...

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    Overview of the DESI Milky Way Survey

    We describe the Milky Way Survey (MWS) that will be undertaken with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on the Mayall 4 m telescope at the Kitt Peak...

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    PROF. DAISUKE KAWATA (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK)

    Prof. Kawata is a Professor of Astronomy at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK. He got his PhD from Tohoku University in Japan in...

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    The Sixth Data Release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE). I. Survey Description, Spectra, and Radial Velocities

    The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE) is a magnitude-limited (9 < I < 12) spectroscopic survey of Galactic stars randomly selected in Earth's southern...

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    The Sixth Data Release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE). II. Stellar Atmospheric Parameters, Chemical Abundances, and Distances

    We present part 2 of the sixth and final Data Release (DR6) of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), a magnitude-limited ( $9\lt I\lt 12$ ) spectroscopic...