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most citedKinematics and history of the solar neighbourhood revisited

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14 papers

astro-ph.GA2017★ 27 cited

Migration and kinematics in growing disc galaxies with thin and thick discs

Michael Aumer, James Binney, Ralph Schönrich

We analyse disc heating and radial migration in N-body models of growing disc galaxies with thick and thin discs. Similar to thin-disc-only models, galaxies with appropriate non-ax…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 29 cited

The structural evolution of galaxies with both thin and thick discs

Michael Aumer, James Binney

We perform controlled N-body simulations of disc galaxies growing within live dark matter (DM) haloes to present-day galaxies that contain both thin and thick discs. We consider tw…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 56 cited

Assessing distances and consistency of kinematics in Gaia/TGAS

Ralph Schönrich, Michael Aumer

We apply the statistical methods by Schoenrich, Binney & Asplund to assess the quality of distances and kinematics in the RAVE-TGAS and LAMOST-TGAS samples of Solar neighbourhood s…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 124 cited

Age velocity dispersion relations and heating histories in disc galaxies

Michael Aumer, James Binney, Ralph Schönrich

We analyse the heating of stellar discs by non axisymmetric structures and giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in N-body simulations of growing disc galaxies. The analysis resolves long-…

astro-ph.GA2016★ 61 cited

The quiescent phase of galactic disc growth

Michael Aumer, James Binney, Ralph Schönrich

We perform a series of controlled N-body simulations of growing disc galaxies within non-growing, live dark matter haloes of varying mass and concentration. Our initial conditions…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 55 cited

Kinematic Detection of the Galactic Nuclear Disc

Ralph Schönrich, Michael Aumer, Stuart E. Sale

We report the detection of the Galactic nuclear disc in line-of-sight kinematics of stars, measured with infrared spectroscopy from APOGEE. This stellar component of the nuclear di…