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Local Kinematics and the Local Standard of Rest
R. Schoenrich, J. Binney, W. Dehnen
We re-examine the stellar kinematics of the Solar neighbourhood in terms of the velocity of the Sun with respect to the local standard of rest. We show that the classical determina…
Distribution functions for the Milky Way
James Binney
Analytic distribution functions (DFs) for the Galactic disc are discussed. The DFs depend on action variables and their predictions for observable quantities are explored under the…
The dangers of deprojection of proper motions
Paul J. McMillan, James J. Binney
We re-examine the method of deprojection of proper motions, which has been used for finding the velocity ellipsoid of stars in the nearby Galaxy. This method is only legitimate if…
Fitting orbits to tidal streams with proper motions
Andy Eyre, James Binney
The Galaxy's stellar halo seems to be a tangle of disrupted systems that have been tidally stretched out into streams. Each stream approximately delineates an orbit in the Galactic…
Origin and structure of the Galactic disc(s)
Ralph Schoenrich, James Binney
We examine the chemical and dynamical structure in the solar neighbourhood of a model Galaxy that is the endpoint of a simulation of the chemical evolution of the Milky Way in the…
Locating the orbits delineated by tidal streams
Andy Eyre, James Binney
We describe a technique that finds orbits through the Galaxy that are consistent with measurements of a tidal stream, taking into account the extent that tidal streams do not preci…
The uncertainty in Galactic parameters
Paul J. McMillan, James J. Binney
We reanalyse the measurements of parallax, proper motion, and line-of-sight velocity for 18 masers in high mass star-forming regions presented by Reid et al. (2009). We use a likel…
RAVE spectroscopy of luminous blue variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud
U. Munari, A. Siviero, O. Bienaymé +19
CONTEXT: The RAVE spectroscopic survey for galactic structure and evolution obtains 8400-8800 Ang spectra at 7500 resolving power at the UK Schmidt Telescope using the 6dF multi-fi…
Kinematics and history of the solar neighbourhood revisited
Michael Aumer, James J. Binney
We use proper motions and parallaxes from the new reduction of Hipparcos data and Geneva-Copenhagen radial velocities for a complete sample of ~15000 main-sequence and subgiant sta…