Search Results - "Lepine, J. D. R."
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A new method for estimating the pattern speed of spiral structure in the Milky Way
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-05-2015)“…In the last few decades, many efforts have been made to understand the effect of spiral arms on the gas and stellar dynamics in the Milky Way disc. One of the…”
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The onset of large-scale turbulence in the interstellar medium of spiral galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2015)“…Turbulence is ubiquitous in the interstellar medium (ISM) of the Milky Way and other spiral galaxies. The energy source for this turbulence has been much…”
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Oxygen abundance distribution in the Galactic disc
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-11-2014)“…We performed a non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (NLTE) analysis of the infrared oxygen triplet for a large number of Cepheid spectra obtained with the…”
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Phosphorus-bearing molecules in solar-type star-forming regions: first PO detection
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-11-2016)“…As part of the Large Program Astrochemical Surveys At IRAM, we have used the IRAM 30 m telescope to lead a systematic search for the emission of rotational…”
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The corotation gap in the Galactic H i distribution
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-12-2009)“…We used the H i data from the LAB Survey to map the ring-shaped gap in H i density that lies slightly outside the solar circle. Adopting R0= 7.5 kpc, we find…”
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A mechanism for the formation of oxygen and iron bimodal radial distribution in the disc of our Galaxy
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-02-2010)“…Recently, it has been proposed that there are two type Ia supernova progenitors: short-lived and long-lived. On the basis of this idea, we develop a theory of…”
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A Galactic ring of minimum stellar density near the solar orbit radius
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-11-2013)“…We analyse the secular effects of a long-lived Galactic spiral structure on the stellar orbits with mean radii close to the corotation resonance. By…”
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Barium abundances in Cepheids
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2013)“…We derived the barium atmospheric abundances for a large sample of Cepheids, comprising 270 stars. The sample covers a large range of Galactocentric distances,…”
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Updated parameters of 1743 open clusters based on Gaia DR2
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2021)“…ABSTRACT In this study, we follow up our recent paper (Monteiro et al. 2020) and present a homogeneous sample of fundamental parameters of open clusters in our…”
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Overlapping abundance gradients and azimuthal gradients related to the spiral structure of the Galaxy
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-10-2011)“…The connection between some features of the metallicity gradient in the Galactic disc, best revealed by Open Clusters and Cepheids, and the spiral structure,…”
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Radial metallicity distribution breaks at corotation radius in spiral galaxies
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2013)“…We analysed the relation between the corotation radii and the galactic radii at which breaks or changes of slope of the metallicity gradients occur in spiral…”
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A GALAXY MODEL FROM TWO MICRON ALL SKY SURVEY STAR COUNTS IN THE WHOLE SKY, INCLUDING THE PLANE
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-11-2013)“…We use the star count model of Ortiz & Lepine to perform an unprecedented exploration of the most important Galactic parameters comparing the predicted counts…”
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The spiral pattern rotation speed of the Galaxy and the corotation radius with Gaia DR2
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2019)“…ABSTRACT In this work we revisit the issue of the rotation speed of the spiral arms and the location of the corotation radius of our Galaxy. This research was…”
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Fundamental parameters for 45 open clusters with Gaia DR2, an improved extinction correction and a metallicity gradient prior
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-12-2020)“…ABSTRACT Reliable fundamental parameters of open clusters (OCs) such as distance, age, and extinction are key to our understanding of Galactic structure and…”
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Direct Determination of the Spiral Pattern Rotation Speed of the Galaxy
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-08-2005)“…The rotation velocity of the spiral pattern of the Galaxy is determined by direct observation of the birthplaces of open clusters of stars in the Galactic disk…”
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Measurement of the epicycle frequency in the Galactic disc and initial velocities of open clusters
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2008)“…A new method to measure the epicycle frequency κ in the Galactic disc is presented. We make use of the large data base on open clusters completed by our group…”
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Chemically tagging the Hyades stream: does it partly originate from the Hyades cluster?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-08-2011)“…The Hyades stream has long been thought to be a dispersed vestige of the Hyades cluster. However, recent analyses of the parallax distribution, of the mass…”
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The spiral structure of the Galaxy revealed by CS sources and evidence for the 4:1 resonance
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2011)“…We present a map of the spiral structure of the Galaxy, as traced by molecular carbon monosulphide (CS) emission associated with IRAS sources which are…”
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Oxygen, α-element and iron abundance distributions in the inner part of the Galactic thin disc – II
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-10-2016)“…We have derived the abundances of 36 chemical elements in one Cepheid star, ASAS 181024-2049.6, located R G = 2.53 kpc from the Galactic Centre. This star…”
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