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The Rich Are Different: Evidence from the RAVE Survey for Stellar Radial Migration
G. Kordopatis, J. Binney, G. Gilmore +21
Using the RAdial Velocity Experiment fourth data release (RAVE DR4), and a new metallicity calibration that will be also taken into account in the future RAVE DR5, we investigate t…
A fast algorithm for estimating actions in triaxial potentials
Jason L. Sanders, James Binney
We present an approach to approximating rapidly the actions in a general triaxial potential. The method is an extension of the axisymmetric approach presented by Binney (2012), and…
Action-based distribution functions for spheroidal galaxy components
Lorenzo Posti, James Binney, Carlo Nipoti +1
We present an approach to the design of distribution functions that depend on the phase-space coordinates through the action integrals. The approach makes it easy to construct a dy…
Henon's Isochrone Model
James Binney
Henon sought the most general spherical potential in which the radial periods of orbits depended only on energy. He named this potential the isochrone, and discovered that it provi…
Gaia-ESO Survey: The analysis of high-resolution UVES spectra of FGK-type stars
R. Smiljanic, A. J. Korn, M. Bergemann +99
The Gaia-ESO Survey is obtaining high-quality spectroscopic data for about 10^5 stars using FLAMES at the VLT. UVES high-resolution spectra are being collected for about 5000 FGK-t…
Pseudo Three-dimensional Maps of the Diffuse Interstellar Band at 862 nm
Janez Kos, Tomaž Zwitter, Rosemary Wyse +20
The diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are absorption lines observed in visual and near infrared spectra of stars. Understanding their origin in the interstellar medium (ISM) is one…
The Galactic Bar
Ortwin Gerhard, Christopher Wegg
The Milky Way's bar dominates the orbits of stars and the flow of cold gas in the inner Galaxy, and is therefore of major importance for Milky Way dynamical studies in the Gaia era…
Constraining the Galaxy's dark halo with RAVE stars
T. Piffl, J. Binney, P. J. McMillan +17
We use the kinematics of giant stars that lie within kpc of the plane to measure the vertical profile of mass density near the Sun. We find that the dark…
Kinematic modelling of the Milky Way using the RAVE and GCS stellar surveys
S. Sharma, J. Bland-Hawthorn, J. Binney +19
We investigate the kinematic parameters of the Milky Way disc using the RAVE and GCS stellar surveys. We do this by fitting a kinematic model to the data taking the selection funct…
The Gaia-ESO Survey: processing of the FLAMES-UVES spectra
G. G. Sacco, L. Morbidelli, E. Franciosini +49
The Gaia-ESO Survey is a large public spectroscopic survey that aims to derive radial velocities and fundamental parameters of about 10^5 Milky Way stars in the field and in cluste…
Self-consistent flattened isochrone models
James Binney
We present a family of self-consistent axisymmetric stellar systems that have analytic distribution functions (DFs) of the form f(J), so they depend on three integrals of motion an…
Actions, angles and frequencies for numerically integrated orbits
Jason L. Sanders, James Binney
We present a method for extracting actions, angles and frequencies from an orbit's time series. The method recovers the generating function that maps an analytic phase-space torus…