The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS. III. Stellar Kinematics

Bond, Nicholas A.; Ivezić, Željko; Sesar, Branimir; Jurić, Mario; Munn, Jeffrey A.; Kowalski, Adam; Loebman, Sarah; Roškar, Rok; Beers, Timothy C.; Dalcanton, Julianne; Rockosi, Constance M.; Yanny, Brian; Newberg, Heidi J.; Allende Prieto, Carlos; Wilhelm, Ron; Lee, Young Sun; Sivarani, Thirupathi; Majewski, Steven R.; Norris, John E.; Bailer-Jones, Coryn A. L.; Re Fiorentin, Paola; Schlegel, David; Uomoto, Alan; Lupton, Robert H.; Knapp, Gillian R.; Gunn, James E.; Covey, Kevin R.; Allyn Smith, J.; Miknaitis, Gajus; Doi, Mamoru; Tanaka, Masayuki; Fukugita, Masataka; Kent, Steve; Finkbeiner, Douglas; Quinn, Tom R.; Hawley, Suzanne; Anderson, Scott; Kiuchi, Furea; Chen, Alex; Bushong, James; Sohi, Harkirat; Haggard, Daryl; Kimball, Amy; McGurk, Rosalie; Barentine, John; Brewington, Howard; Harvanek, Mike; Kleinman, Scott; Krzesinski, Jurek; Long, Dan; Nitta, Atsuko; Snedden, Stephanie; Lee, Brian; Pier, Jeffrey R.; Harris, Hugh; Brinkmann, Jonathan; Schneider, Donald P.
Bibliographical reference

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 716, Issue 1, pp. 1-29 (2010).

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2010
Number of authors
57
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
220
Refereed citations
200
Description
We study Milky Way kinematics using a sample of 18.8 million main-sequence stars with r < 20 and proper-motion measurements derived from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and POSS astrometry, including ~170,000 stars with radial-velocity measurements from the SDSS spectroscopic survey. Distances to stars are determined using a photometric-parallax relation, covering a distance range from ~100 pc to 10 kpc over a quarter of the sky at high Galactic latitudes (|b|>20°). We find that in the region defined by 1 kpc