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Mapping the Galactic Disk with the LAMOST and Gaia Red Clump Sample. III. A New Velocity Substructure and Time Stamps of the Galactic Disk Asymmetry in the Disk between 12 and 15 kpc

  • Authors: Hai-Feng Wang, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Y. Huang, Martíin López-Corredoira, B.-Q. Chen, C. Wang, J. Chang, H.-W. Zhang, M.-S. Xiang, H.-B. Yuan, W.-X. Sun, X.-Y. Li, Y. Yang, and L.-C. Deng

2019 The Astrophysical Journal 884 135.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

Edge-on views of the kinematics of the disk derived using the RC giant sample. From left to right, bins show the median velocity VR, Vθ, VZ (in km s−1) of RC stars within each bin on the R, Z plane. The red color is prominent in the north corresponding to the blue/cyan color in the south, the asymmetric region corresponding to the South-middle and South-middle opposite density structures is evident in the radial and rotational velocity distributions. The right panel shows vertical velocity distribution in the R, Z plane, the range is R = [12 15], kpc, Z = [−3 3] kpc, the green/red colors predominate bins both above and below the plane, illustrating that there is a clear bulk motions at all radii.

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