Article Dans Une Revue Astronomy & Astrophysics - A&A Année : 2005

Local kinematics of K and M giants from CORAVEL/Hipparcos/Tycho-2 data. Revisiting the concept of superclusters

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The availability of the Hipparcos Catalogue has triggered many kinematic and dynamical studies of the solar neighbourhood. Nevertheless, those studies generally lacked the third component of the space velocities, i.e., the radial velocities. This work presents the kinematic analysis of 5952 K and 739 M giants in the solar neighbourhood which includes for the first time radial velocity data from a large survey performed with the CORAVEL spectrovelocimeter. It also uses proper motions from the Tycho-2 catalogue, which are expected to be more accurate than the Hipparcos ones. An important by-product of this study is the observed fraction of only 5.7% of spectroscopic binaries among M giants as compared to 13.7% for K giants. After excluding the binaries for which no center-of-mass velocity could be estimated, 5311 K and 719 M giants remain in the final sample. The UV-plane constructed from these data for the stars with precise parallaxes (sigmapi/pi = -2.78±1.07 km s-1. However, the full data set (including the various streams) does yield the usual value for the radial solar motion, when properly accounting for the biases inherent to this kind of analysis (namely, < U > = -10.25±0.15 km s-1). This discrepancy clearly raises the essential question of how to derive the solar motion in the presence of dynamical perturbations altering the kinematics of the solar neighbourhood: does there exist in the solar neighbourhood a subset of stars having no net radial motion which can be used as a reference against which to measure the solar motion?

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hal-03732551 , version 1 (06-09-2022)

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Benoît Famaey, A. Jorissen, Xavier Luri, Michel Mayor, Stéphane Udry, et al.. Local kinematics of K and M giants from CORAVEL/Hipparcos/Tycho-2 data. Revisiting the concept of superclusters. Astronomy & Astrophysics - A&A, 2005, 430, pp.165-186. ⟨10.1051/0004-6361:20041272⟩. ⟨hal-03732551⟩
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