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astro-ph.GA2020★ 18 cited

Age-metallicity dependent stellar kinematics of the Milky Way disc from LAMOST and Gaia

Yaqian Wu, Maosheng Xiang, Yuqin Chen +5

We investigate the stellar kinematics of the Galactic disc in 7 13\,kpc using a sample of 118\,945 red giant branch (RGB) stars from LAMOST and Gaia. We characterize th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 50 cited

Milky Way Tomography with the SkyMapper Southern Survey. II. Photometric Re-calibration of SMSS DR2

Yang Huang, Haibo Yuan, Chengyuan Li +13

We apply the spectroscopy-based stellar-color regression (SCR) method to perform an accurate photometric re-calibration of the second data release from the SkyMapper Southern Surve…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 24 cited

Dust in the outskirts of M31 and M33

Ruoyi Zhang, Haibo Yuan

M31 and M33 serve as ideal places to study distributions of dust in the outskirts of spiral galaxies. In this letter, using about 0.2 million stars selected from the LAMOST data an…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 8 cited

Existence of the Metal-Rich Stellar Halo and High-velocity Thick Disk in the Galaxy

Yepeng Yan, Cuihua Du, Hefan Li +3

Based on the second Gaia data release (DR2), combined with the LAMOST and APOGEE spectroscopic surveys, we study the kinematics and metallicity distribution of the high-velocity st…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 40 cited

Exploring the pertubed Milky Way disk and the substructures of the outer disk

Y. Xu, C. Liu, H. Tian +6

The recent discovery of a spiral feature in phase plane in the solar neighborhood implies that the Galactic disk has been remarkably affected by a dwarf galaxy passing thro…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 50 cited

Three-Dimensional Distribution of the Interstellar Dust in the Milky Way

H. -L. Guo, B. -Q. Chen, H. -B. Yuan +6

We present a three-dimensional (3D) extinction map of the southern sky. The map covers the SkyMapper Southern Survey (SMSS) area of 14,000 and has spatial re…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 5 cited

On the Absorption Properties of Metallic Needles

C. Y. Xiao, Qi Li, Aigen Li +1

Needle-like metallic particles have been suggested to explain a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena, ranging from the mid-infrared interstellar extinction to the thermalization…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

Differential rotation of the halo traced by the K-giant stars

Hao Tian, Chao Liu, Yougang Wang +4

We use K-giant stars selected from the LAMOST DR5 to study the variation of the rotational velocity of the galactic halo at different space positions. Modelling the rotational velo…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 9 cited

The distances to molecular clouds in the fourth Galactic quadrant

Chen Bingqiu, Wang Shu, Hou Ligang +4

Distance measurements to molecular clouds are essential and important. We present directly measured distances to 169 molecular clouds in the fourth quadrant of the Milky Way. Based…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 36 cited

Distances to the Supernova Remnants in the Inner Disk

Shu Wang, Chengyu Zhang, Biwei Jiang +5

Distance measurements of supernova remnants (SNRs) are essential and important. Accurate estimates of physical size, dust masses, and some other properties of SNRs depend criticall…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 16 cited

Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of A2256: cold fronts, merger shocks, and constraint on the IC emission

Chong Ge, Ruo-Yu Liu, Ming Sun +13

We present the results of deep Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of a complex merging galaxy cluster Abell 2256 (A2256) that hosts a spectacular radio relic (RR). The temperature…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 10 cited

On Carbon Nanotubes in the Interstellar Medium

Qi Li, Aigen Li, B. W. Jiang +1

Since their discovery in 1991, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) -- a novel one-dimensional carbon allotrope -- have attracted considerable interest worldwide because of their potential tech…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 8 cited

Black hole mass function and its evolution -- the first prediction for the Einstein Telescope

Xuheng Ding, Kai Liao, Marek Biesiada +1

The knowledge about the black hole mass function (BHMF) and its evolution would help to understand the origin of the BHs and how BH binaries formed at different stages of the histo…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 69 cited

A large catalogue of molecular clouds with accurate distances within 4 kpc of the Galactic disk

B. -Q. Chen, G. -X. Li, H. -B. Yuan +6

We present a large, homogeneous catalogue of molecular clouds within 4 kpc from the Sun at low Galactic latitudes ( 10\degr) with unprecedented accurate distance determina…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 7 cited

A catalogue of H emission-line point sources in the vicinity fields of M31 and M33 from the LAMOST survey

M. Zhang, B. -Q. Chen, Z. -Y. Huo +6

We present a catalogue of 3,305 H emission-line point sources observed with the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) in the vicinity fields of M31…