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Peculiarities of galactic rotation in the solar neighborhood from the data on red clump giants

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The three-dimensional Ogorodnikov-Milne model was used to investigate the local velocity field on the basis of the tangential velocities of more than 53 000 red giants which were identified as most probable Red Clump members from the Tycho-2 catalog. Galactic rotation parameters were determined for two star groups at the galactic latitudes |b| < 30° and |b| ≥ 30°. The galactic rotation of the first star group was found to have some peculiarities characterized by the statistically significant parameters of contraction (K = −6.3 ± 1.1 km s−1 kpc−1) and phase shift (ϕ = 6.9° ± 0.6°) in the Ogorodnikov-Miln model. The vertex deflection and the semiaxes of peculiar velocity ellipsoid were determined for both star groups together with the components of the Sun’s motion with respect to these groups. The greatest distinction between two groups manifests itself in the vertex deflection, which is equal to 5.9° ± 0.7° at |b| < 30° and 0.1° ± 0.6° at |b| ≥ 30°.

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  1. Main Astronomical Observatory, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, vul. Akademika Zabolotnoho 27, Kyiv, 03680, Ukraine

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Original Russian Text © S.P. Rybka, 2008, published in Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, 2008, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 137–145.

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Rybka, S.P. Peculiarities of galactic rotation in the solar neighborhood from the data on red clump giants. Kinemat. Phys. Celest. Bodies 24, 99–104 (2008). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0884591308020050

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