Milky Way through A stars Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Ardevol J.
  2. Monguio M.
  3. Figueras F.
  4. Romero-Gomez M.
  5. Carrasco J.M.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Despite their relatively high intrinsic brightness and the fact that they are more numerous than younger OB stars and kinematically colder than older red giants, A-type stars have rarely been used as Galactic tracers. They may, in fact, be used to fill the age gap between these two tracers, thereby allowing us to study the transition between them. We analyse Galactic disc structure and kinematic perturbations up to 6kpc from the Sun based on observations of A-type stars. This work presents a catalogue of A-type stars selected using the IGAPS photometric survey. It covers the Galactic disc within 30{deg}<l<215{deg} and |b|<5{deg} up to a magnitude of r<19mag with about 3.5 million sources. We used Gaia Data Release 3 parallaxes and proper motions, as well as the line-of-sight velocities, to analyse the large-scale features of the Galactic disc. We carried out a study of the completeness of the detected density distributions, along with a comparison between the b<0{deg} and b>0{deg} regions. Possible biases caused by interstellar extinction or by the usage of some kinematic approximations were examined as well. We find stellar overdensities associated with the Local and the Perseus spiral arms, as well as with the Cygnus region. A-type stars also provide kinematic indications of the Galactic warp towards the anticentre, which displays a median vertical motion of ~6-7km/s at a Galactocentric radius of R=14kpc. It starts at R=12kpc, which supports the scenario where the warp begins at larger radii for younger tracers when compared with other samples in the literature. We also detect a region with downward mean motion extending beyond 2kpc from the Sun towards 60{deg}<l<75{deg} that may be associated with a compression breathing mode. Furthermore, A-type stars reveal very clumpy inhomogeneities and asymmetries in the V_Z_-V_phi_ velocity space plane.

Keywords
  1. milky-way-galaxy
  2. galaxy-planes
  3. a-stars
  4. photometry
  5. proper-motions
  6. radial-velocity
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2023A&A...678A.111A
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History

2023-10-12T08:52:17Z
Resource record created
2023-10-12T08:03:43Z
Updated
2023-10-12T08:52:17Z
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