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Local Variations of the Velocity Ellipsoid

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

M. Moreno
Affiliation:
Dep. Fsica i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) [manel@fen.upc.es]
J. Torra
Affiliation:
Dep. d'Astronomia i Meteorologia, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain)
E. Oblak
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Besançon (France)

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We have analyzed the distribution of residual velocities of nearby stars (within 200 pc of the Sun) looking for space variations on the velocity ellipsoid. We used a sample of 1071 main sequence stars of spectral types B, A and F selected from the Hipparcos Input Catalogue [7] with uvbyHβ photometric data. Ages have been calculated following [1]. Six subsamples with 8.07 ≤ log(age) ≤ 9.45 have been considered.

Type
Chapter 6: How are we to Understand the Large Scale Structure of the ISM?
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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