Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-10-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages LaTeX, uses paspconf.sty, to appear in the proceedings of "Galaxy Dynamics", conference held in Rutgers, 08/98
Scientific paper
From the tangential velocities of stars all over the sky, one can, in a statistical way, infer their 3D velocity distribution. An application to Hipparcos data reveals rich structure in the planar stellar motions: there are several moving groups, increasing in number with stellar type but decreasing in importance. A distinct group of outward moving stars with low rotation velocities might be associated with the Galactic bar: growing a bar in a smooth model for the Galactic disk results in such a group, provided the Sun is outside the outer Lindblad resonance (OLR) and the orientation angle with the bar is in the first quadrant. The vertical motions show less structure, but the mean
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