Kinematic data for stars in OB-associations Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Melnik A.M.
  2. Dambis A.K.
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Abstract

We use stellar proper motions from the catalog TGAS (2016, Cat. I/337) to study the kinematics of OB-associations identified by Blaha and Humphreys (1989AJ.....98.1598B). The TGAS proper motions of OB-associations generally agree well with the Hipparcos proper motions. The parameters of the Galactic rotation curve obtained with TGAS and Hipparcos proper motions agree within the errors. The average internal velocity dispersion calculated for 18 OB-associations with more than 10 TGAS stars is sigma_v_=3.9km/s, which is considerably smaller, by a factor of 0.4, than the velocity dispersions derived from Hipparcos data. The effective contribution from binary OB-stars into the velocity dispersion sigma_v inside OB-associations is sigma_b_=1.2km/s. The median virial and stellar masses of OB-associations are equal to 7.1x10^5^ and 9.0x10^3^M_{sun}_, respectively. Thus OB-associations must be unbound objects provided they do not include a lot of dense gas. The median star-formation efficiency is epsilon=2.1%. Nearly one third of stars of OB-associations must lie outside their tidal radius. We found that the Per OB1 and Car OB1 associations are expanding with the expansion started in a small region of 11-27pc 7-10Myr ago. The average expansion velocity is 6.3km/s.

Keywords
  1. Milky Way Galaxy
  2. Stellar associations
  3. OB stars
  4. Proper motions
  5. Radial velocity
  6. Photometry
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2017MNRAS.472.3887M
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2017-10-13T10:06:22Z
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