The galaxy in context: structural, kinematic, and integrated properties

J Bland-Hawthorn, O Gerhard - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is a benchmark for understanding disk galaxies. It is the only
galaxy whose formation history can be studied using the full distribution of stars from faint …

The ages of stars

DR Soderblom - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The age of an individual star cannot be measured, only estimated through mostly model-
dependent or empirical methods, and no single method works well for a broad range of …

Local kinematics and the local standard of rest

R Schönrich, J Binney, W Dehnen - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We re-examine the stellar kinematics of the solar neighbourhood in terms of the velocity υ⊙
of the Sun with respect to the local standard of rest. We show that the classical determination …

How to constrain your M dwarf: measuring effective temperature, bolometric luminosity, mass, and radius

AW Mann, GA Feiden, E Gaidos… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Precise and accurate parameters for late-type (late K and M) dwarf stars are important for
characterization of any orbiting planets, but such determinations have been hampered by …

How to constrain your M dwarf. II. The mass–luminosity–metallicity relation from 0.075 to 0.70 solar masses

AW Mann, T Dupuy, AL Kraus, E Gaidos… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The mass–luminosity relation for late-type stars has long been a critical tool for estimating
stellar masses. However, there is growing need for both a higher-precision relation and a …

New constraints on the chemical evolution of the solar neighbourhood and Galactic disc (s)-Improved astrophysical parameters for the Geneva-Copenhagen Survey

L Casagrande, R Schönrich, M Asplund… - Astronomy & …, 2011 - aanda.org
We present a re-analysis of the Geneva-Copenhagen survey, which benefits from the
infrared flux method to improve the accuracy of the derived stellar effective temperatures and …

Fundamental parameters and spectral energy distributions of young and field age objects with masses spanning the stellar to planetary regime

JC Filippazzo, EL Rice, J Faherty, KL Cruz… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We combine optical, near-infrared, and mid-infrared spectra and photometry to construct
expanded spectral energy distributions for 145 field age (> 500 Myr) and 53 young (lower …

The rotation and galactic kinematics of mid M dwarfs in the solar neighborhood

ER Newton, J Irwin, D Charbonneau… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
THE ROTATION AND GALACTIC KINEMATICS OF MID M DWARFS IN THE SOLAR
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The Milky Way's circular-velocity curve between 4 and 14 kpc from APOGEE data

J Bovy, CA Prieto, TC Beers, D Bizyaev… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We measure the Milky Way's rotation curve over the Galactocentric range 4
kpc≲ R≲ 14 kpc from the first year of data from the Apache Point Observatory Galactic …

The spatial structure of mono-abundance sub-populations of the Milky Way disk

J Bovy, HW Rix, C Liu, DW Hogg… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The spatial, kinematic, and elemental-abundance structure of the Milky Way's stellar disk is
complex, and has been difficult to dissect with local spectroscopic or global photometric …