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Orbital migration and heating history of the Galactic disc: a transition between the bimodal discs
HanYuan Zhang, Vasily Belokurov, Jason L. Sanders +7
Stellar orbits in the Galactic disc evolve from their birth to the current shape through both radial migration and dynamical heating. The history of their secular evolution is impr…
Revealing the ages of metal-rich RR Lyrae via kinematic label transfer
HanYuan Zhang, Giuliano Iorio, Vasily Belokurov +3
RR Lyrae stars have long been considered reliable tracers of old, metal-poor populations, primarily due to their prevalence in globular clusters and the Galactic halo. However, the…
Blind source separation of the stellar halo
Elliot Y. Davies, Vasily Belokurov, Andrey Kravtsov +4
The stellar halo of the Milky Way comprises an abundance of chemical signatures from accretion events and \textit{in-situ} evolution, that form an interweaving tapestry in kinemati…
Observational Constraints of Radial Migration in the Galactic Disc Driven by the Slowing Bar
HanYuan Zhang, Vasily Belokurov, N. Wyn Evans +7
Radial migration is an important dynamical effect that has reshaped the Galactic disc, but its origin has yet to be elucidated. In this work, we present evidence that resonant drag…
VIRAC2: NIR Astrometry and Time Series Photometry for 500M+ Stars from the VVV and VVVX Surveys
Leigh C. Smith, Philip W. Lucas, Sergey E. Koposov +11
We present VIRAC2, a catalogue of positions, proper motions, parallaxes and , , , , and near-infrared photometric time series of 545 346 537 unique stars. The cat…