Identifying Milky Way Stellar Populations Through Kinematics Derived from Catalog Data
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Abstract
The GAIA mission, launched in 2013, will provide the precise position, distance, and motion on the sky for an unprecedented number of stars in the Milky Way (MW). ~The first set of data from the mission was released in 2016 and astronomers are already updating measurements and making discoveries with the new information. We have cross-matched this photometric catalog with the spectroscopic surveys of RAVE, SDSS, and LAMOST to provide stellar parameters and radial velocities. ~With this combined dataset we are able to compute orbits for the stars and can isolate various stellar populations to study properties of our Galaxy. We will present our catalog and method, as well as show orbital properties of different MW populations.
Authors
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Brandon Santana-Nolan
Angelo State Univ
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Taylor Spoo
Angelo State Univ
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Kenneth Carrell
Angelo State Univ
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Justin Bankert
Angelo State Univ