2024/12/24 by Artem Dmytrenko, P. N. Fedorov, Dmytrenko, A. M. +19 · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2412.18333
openalex publication_date 2024/12/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present the results of determining the parameters characterizing the shape and orientation of residual velocity ellipsoids from the Gaia DR3 red giants and subgiants. We show the distribution of velocity dispersions in the Galactic plane obtained from three components of the spatial velocity, as well as the coordinate distribution of the intersection points of the velocity ellipsoid axes with the celestial sphere, in particular the deviations of the longitudes and latitudes of the vertices of stellar regions located within spheres with a radius of 1 kpc centered in the Galactic mid-plane. The area of the Galactic disk under study is in the range of Galactocentric coordinates 0 < R < 15 kpc and 120^∘ < θ< 240^∘. We show that the vertex deviations in some regions of the Galactic mid-plane can reach 30^∘ in longitude, and 15^∘ in latitude. This indicates the presence of kinematic distortions of the stellar velocity field, especially noticeable in the angular range of 150^∘ < θ< 210^∘ at a distance of approximately 13 kpc. We propose the angles of deviation of longitudes and latitudes of the ellipsoid axes of residual stellar velocities to be considered as kinematic signatures of various Galactic deformations determined from real fields of spatial velocities. We present the distribution of parameters characterizing the shapes of velocity ellipsoids, as well as their distribution of the semi-axes length ratios. We note a local feature in this distribution and in the distribution of the elongation measurements of the ellipsoids. We perform a comparison of the results obtained from the tensor of deformation velocities and from the observed spatial velocities.