J/PAZh/33/643       Kinematics of Sco-Cen OB Association     (Bobylev+, 2007)

Kinematics of the Scorpius-Centaurus OB association. Bobylev V.V., Bajkova A.T. <Pis'ma Astron. Zh. 33, 643 (2007)> =2007PAZh...33..643B 2007PAZh...33..643B =2007AstL...33..571B 2007AstL...33..571B
ADC_Keywords: Associations, stellar; Proper motions; Radial velocities; Space velocities; Magnitudes Abstract: A fine structure related to the kinematic peculiarities of three components of the Scorpius-Centaurus association (LCC = Lower Centaurus-Crux, UCL = Upper Centaurus-Lupus, and US = Upper Scorpius) has been revealed in the UV-velocity distribution of Gould Belt stars. We have been able to identify the most likely members of these groups by applying the method of analyzing the two-dimensional probability density function of stellar UV velocities that we developed. A kinematic analysis of the identified structural components has shown that, in general, the center-of-mass motion of the LCC, UCL, and US groups follows the motion characteristic of the Gould Belt, notably its expansion. The entire Scorpius-Centaurus complex is shown to possess a proper expansion with an angular velocity parameter of 46±8km/s/kpc for the kinematic center with l0=-40° and R0=110pc found. Based on this velocity, we have estimated the characteristic expansion time of the complex to be 21±4Myr. The proper rotation velocity of the Scorpius-Centaurus complex is lower in magnitude, is determined less reliably, and depends markedly on the data quality. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FileName Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ReadMe 80 . This file table1.dat 207 255 Gould Belt stars with parallax errors < 20% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: I/239 : The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues (ESA 1997) I/259 : The Tycho-2 Catalogue (Hog+ 2000) III/213 : General Cat. of mean radial velocities (Barbier-Brossat+, 2000) III/252 : Pulkovo radial velocities for 35493 HIP stars (Gontcharov, 2006) J/AZh/83/821 : Compiled stellar radial velocities cat. (OSACA) (Bobylev+, 2006) Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bytes Format Units Label Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 3 A3 --- --- [HIP] 5- 10 I6 --- HIP HIP number (1) 12- 21 A10 --- Name Name of cluster or association, in some cases, common name of the star (2) 23- 28 F6.1 km/s RV Mean radial velocity 31- 34 F4.1 km/s e_RV Standard error in RV if available 36 I1 --- n_RV Number of catalogues for calculation of RV 38- 47 A10 --- r_RV ? Source of RV (3) 49- 52 F4.2 --- P(LCC) Membership probability of LCC (Lower Cen-Cru) 54- 57 F4.2 --- P(UCL) Membership probability of UCL (Upper Cen-Lup) 59- 62 F4.2 --- P(US) Membership probability of US (Upper Sco) 64- 67 F4.2 --- P(Gould) Membership probability of Gould's Belt 69- 80 F12.8 deg RAdeg Right ascension in decimal degrees (J2000) 82- 93 F12.8 deg DEdeg Declination in decimal degrees (J2000) 95-100 F6.2 mas plx Hipparcos parallax 102-105 F4.2 mas e_plx ? Error of parallax 107-114 F8.2 mas/yr pmRA Proper motion in RA, mu(alpha)*cos(delta) 116-123 F8.2 mas/yr pmDE Proper motion in DE 125-130 F6.2 mag Vmag Johnson V magnitude 132-137 F6.1 km/s UVel Space velocity component on galactic X axis 138-143 F6.1 km/s VVel Space velocity component on galactic Y axis 144-149 F6.1 km/s WVel Space velocity component on galactic Z axis 151-155 F5.1 km/s e_UVel ? Standard error of UVel if e_RV available (4) 156-160 F5.1 km/s e_VVel ? Standard error of VVel if e_RV available (4) 161-165 F5.1 km/s e_WVel ? Standard error of WVel if e_RV available (4) 167-171 F5.2 mas/yr e_pmRA Error of proper motion in pmRA 173-177 F5.2 mas/yr e_pmDE Error of proper motion in pmDE 179-185 F7.3 mag BTmag ?=99.999 Tycho BT magnitude 187-193 F7.3 mag VTmag ?=99.999 Tycho VT magnitude 195-200 F6.3 mag e_BTmag ?=9.999 Error of Tycho BT magnitude 202-207 F6.3 mag e_VTmag ?=9.999 Error of Tycho VT magnitude -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note (1): Catalogue number of the star in the Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA 1997, The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues, ESA SP-1200, Cat. I/239) Note (2): gLCC and gUCL represent the list of E.J. de Geus, P.T. de Zeeuw and J. Lub (1989A&A...216...44D 1989A&A...216...44D) Note (3): Source of RV as follows: PCRV = Gontcharov (2006AstL...32..759, Cat. III/252), http://www.geocities.com/orionspiral/ Jilinski = Jilinski et al. (2006A&A...216..44) P+Jil = this work Makarov = Makarov (2003AJ...126..1996) Wichmann = Wichmann et al. (2003A&A...399..983) Song = Song et al. (2003ApJ...599..342) Torres = Torres et al. (2006, Cat. J/A+A/460/695) Barb-Figon = Barbier-Brossat and Figon, Cat. III/213 Montes = Montes et al.(2001, Cat. J/MNRAS/328/45) Sartory = Sartory et al. (2003, Cat. J/A+A/404/913) Mamajek = Mamajek (2005ApJ...634..1385) OSACA = Bobylev et al. (2006, Cat. J/AZh/83/821), http://www.geocities.com/orionspiral/ Note (4): For TWA 1,4,9,11 was adopted e_PAR/PAR=0.2. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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