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3D stellar reddening map from 2MASS photometry: An improved version
Gontcharov, G. A.
An improved version of the 3D stellar reddening map in a space with a radius of 1200 pc around the Sun and within 600 pc of the Galactic midplane is presented. As in the previous 2010 and 2012 versions of the map, photometry with an accuracy better than 0.05 m in the J and Ks bands for more than 70 million stars from the 2MASS catalogu…
Kinematics of the galaxy from OB stars with proper motions from the Gaia DR1 catalogue
Bobylev, V. V.; Bajkova, A. T.
We consider two samples of OB stars with different distance scales that we have studied previously. The first and second samples consist of massive spectroscopic binaries with photometric distances and distances determined from interstellar calcium lines, respectively. The OB stars are located at heliocentric distances up to 7 kpc. We have identif…
Kinematics of the galaxy from Cepheids with proper motions from the Gaia DR1 catalogue
Bobylev, V. V.
A sample of classical Cepheids with known distances and line-of-sight velocities has been supplemented with proper motions from the Gaia DR1 catalogue. Based on the velocities of 260 stars, we have found the components of the peculiar solar velocity vector ( U, V, W)⊙ = (7.90, 11.73, 7.39) ± (0.65, 0.77, 0.62) km s-1 and the …
Systematic error of the Gaia DR1 TGAS parallaxes from data for the red giant clump
Gontcharov, G. A.
Based on the Gaia DR1 TGAS parallaxes and photometry from the Tycho-2, Gaia, 2MASS, andWISE catalogues, we have produced a sample of 100 000 clump red giants within 800 pc of the Sun. The systematic variations of the mode of their absolute magnitude as a function of the distance, magnitude, and other parameters have been analyzed. We show that the…
Searching for stars closely encountering with the solar system based on data from the Gaia DR1 and RAVE5 catalogues
Bobylev, V. V.; Bajkova, A. T.
We have searched for the stars that either encountered in the past or will encounter in the future with the Solar system closer than 2 pc. For this purpose, we took more than 216 000 stars with the measured proper motions and trigonometric parallaxes from the Gaia DR1 catalogue and their radial velocities from the RAVE5 catalogue. We have found se…
Vertical distribution and kinematics of planetary nebulae in the milky way
Bobylev, V. V.; Bajkova, A. T.
Based on published data, we have produced a sample of planetary nebulae (PNe) that is complete within 2 kpc of the Sun. We have estimated the total number of PNe in the Galaxy from this sample to be 17 000±3000 and determined the vertical scale height of the thin disk based on an exponential density distribution to be 197 ± 10 pc. The next sample …
Properties of the Tycho-2 catalogue from Gaia data release
Tsvetkov, A. S.; Vityazev, V. V.; Petrov, S. D. +2 more
Based on the measurements performed in the first 14 months of Gaia operation, we have solved the problem of obtaining the systematic differences between the stellar positions and proper motions of the TGAS (Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution) and Tycho-2 catalogues. By dividing the common stars from the TGAS and Tycho-2 catalogues into three G-magnit…
Vertical distribution and kinematics of protoplanetary nebulae in the galaxy
Bobylev, V. V.; Bajkova, A. T.
The catalogue of protoplanetary nebulae by Vickers et al. has been supplemented with the line-of-sight velocities and proper motions of their central stars from the literature. Based on an exponential density distribution, we have estimated the vertical scale height from objects with an age less than 3 Gyr belonging to the Galactic thin disk (lumi…