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− 1 mE8 mE: " = − = l8: = −l:8 (4) 2 mG: mG8 0 constitute antisymmetric tensor which is referred to as the tensor of local rotation velocities. It describes the rigid-body rotation of the stellar system under examination about the axis which passes through the stellar centroid with the instant angular velocity l, and l1,l2,l3 are projections of l on the Galactic axes G,H,I respectively. The matrix
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is symmetric, and its components E8: = E:8 form the symmetric second-rank tensor which is referred to as the tensor of local de- formation velocities. It defines the velocity of deformation motion in the stellar system under study. Usually, it is these components of the tensor that correspond to the forces inducing deformations in the dynamical investigations (Tarapov (2002); Sedov (1970)). Figure 1. The local rectangular Galactic G,H,I and cylindrical Galactocen- + + The diagonal components of the symmetric matrix "11, "22 tric ',\,I coordinate systems. ( is an arbitrary star with the heliocentric + and "33 characterize velocities of relative contractions/expansions distance A. of the stellar system along G,H,I axes, while the components + = + + = + + = + "12 "21, "23 "32, "13 "31 do velocities of the angular in the papers by Clube (1972); du Mont (1977); Miyamoto & Soma deformations in the (G, H), (H, I) and (G, I) planes, respectively. Here (1993); Miyamoto & Zhu (1998); Bobylev & Khovrichev (2011). the velocity of angular deformation means the velocity of changing In general, representation of the velocity field of a deformable angles between segments in the planes. stellar system is based on the general form of expanding the con- To set a relation between the velocity components V(r) and the tinuous vector function V(r) which is defined in the vicinity of any observational data, namely proper motions `; and `1 on the Galac- point r0 (G0, H0, I0). In the Cartesian Galactic coordinate system tic longitude and latitude, respectively, as well as radial velocity +A G,H,I the general form of the stellar velocity field expansion V(r) of a star, we project the vector V(r) on the unit vectors of the spher- is as follows: ical Galactic coordinate system e;, e1, eA and introduce the factor : = 4.74057 to transform the dimension of stellar proper motions from mas yr−1 to km s−1 kpc−1. Then, the conditional equations for 2 m+ 1 m + proper motions and radial velocities in the local Galactic coordinate V(r) = V(r0+3r) = V(r0)+ 3G: + 3G: 3G<+... mG: 0 2! mG: mG< 0 system have the following form: (1) = where the indexes :,< 1,2,3, and the partial derivatives are :`; cos 1 = -⊙/A sin ; − .⊙/A cos ; − l1 sin 1 cos ; − l2 sin 1 sin ;+ evaluated at the point r0 (G0, H0, I0). + + + l3 cos 1 + " cos 1 cos 2; − " sin 1 sin ;+ When analysing the solar vicinity, we restrict the expansion 1 12 13 + "+ sin 1 cos ; − 0.5 "+ cos 1 sin 2;+ to the first-order terms and derive the components E8 of the linear 23 11 velocity field V at the point located at the heliocentric distance from + + 0.5 "22cos 1 sin 2; (6) the Sun r = r0 + 3r as follows: :`1 = -⊙/A cos ; sin 1 + .⊙/A sin ; sin 1 − /⊙/A cos 1 + l1 sin ;− 1 mE8 mE: − l cos ; − 0.5 "+ sin 21 sin 2; + "+ cos 21 cos ;+ E8 (r0 + 3r) = E8 (r0) + − 3G: + (2) 2 12 13 2 mG: mG8 0 + + 2 + "23 cos 21 sin ; − 0.5 "11 sin 21 cos ;− 1 mE8 mE: = − + + + 3G: E8 (r0) + " 3G: + " 3G: − 0.5 "+ sin 21 sin2 ; + 0.5 "+ sin 21 (7) 2 mG: mG8 0 22 33 where 8, : = 1, 2, 3. +A /A = −-⊙/A cos ;cos 1 − .⊙/A sin ; cos 1 − /⊙/A sin 1+ In this equation, E8 (r0) is usually interpreted as the mean + + + 2 velocity of the stellar system relative to the Sun, or on the contrary, + "13 sin 21 cos ; + "23 sin 21 sin ; + "12 cos 1 sin 2;+ as the Solar velocity relative to the chosen centroid with the opposite + 2 2 + 2 2 + 2 + "11 cos 1 cos ; + "22 cos 1 sin ; + "33 sin 1 (8) signs, where the components are E8 (r0) = −-⊙eG − .⊙eH − /⊙eI . Thus, finally one can write: The equations given above define the differential stellar veloc- ity field and contain 12 unknown parameters. The local Galactic coordinate system can be introduced at any E (A + 3A) = −- e − . e − / e + "−3G + "+3G (3) 8 0 ⊙ G ⊙ H ⊙ I : : arbitrary point of the Galactic plane provided that one know coordi- − + The matrix elements " and " are the partial derivatives of nates G,H,I, spacial velocities +G,+H,+I of the point (for instance, a the projections (E1, E2, E3) of the velocity vector on the axes of the star) and for all stars located within the corresponding vicinity. Tak- rectangular Galactic coordinate system, and they are usually called ing the Galactocentric distance of the Sun to be equal to '⊙ = 8.0 kinematic parameters. kpc (Valleé (2017)), one can make the transition from the local
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Galactic coordinate system with the origin at the barycenter of the -2 Solar system to one with the origin at the chosen point. The corre- sponding transformation takes into account, in general, transposing 0 the origin of the Galactic coordinate system and turning the coordi- nate axes. The G′–axis of the new coordinate system always points to the Galactic center, the H′–axis coincides with the direction of 2 ′ the Galactic rotation, and the I one is perpendicular to the Galactic , mag G
plane. The procedure would translocate the fictitious observer from M 4 the barycenter of the Solar system to the point given by the origin of the new coordinate system. 6 Thus, one can write the conditional equations of the O–M model in the chosen coordinate system and estimate the kinematic 8 parameters in the vicinity of each chosen point. It is evident that 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 these kinematic parameters are local, since they characterize the BP-RP, mag stellar kinematics within a small spacial volume, for instance within a spherical area with a given radius A ′. Nevertheless, such an analysis Figure 2. Selection of red giants and sub-giants. of stellar kinematics in various Galactic parts provides insight into behaviour of some global kinematic parameters, i.e. those related to the entire Galaxy. In this paper, we present estimations within the O–M model 6 10 Main sequence of the kinematic parameters for stellar systems located along the Red giants + subgiants direction the Galactic center – the Sun – the Galactic anticenter. In this case, the origin of the coordinate system is shifting along 105 the --axis relative to the Sun with the step of 250 pc, without any rotations of the coordinate system. 104 Number of stars 103 3 SOLVING THE PROBLEM
For the analysis, we use the 080 EDR3 data 102 (Gaia collaboration et al. (2016b, 2021a)) of ∼7,21 million 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 stars, for which, in addition to proper motions, radial velocities Heliocentric distance, kpc were also derived within the second release of the 080 mission (Katz et al. (2019). The diagram color % − '% – absolute Figure 3. The number of main sequence stars and red giants plus sub-giants depending on the heliocentric distance. magnitude " for 10% of these stars is shown in Fig. 2. The diagram is rough because extinction was not be taken into account. Using the straight lines in Fig. 2, the stars were split into the main sequence stars (located below the lines), and higher luminosity stars, such as sub-giants and giants (located above the lines) the sphere onto 1200 equal areas (pixels). The pixelization has been The Fig. 3 shows the distribution of number of stars with the applied only for excluding stars. heliocentric distance A. A were computed from parallaxes as 1/c. Once the rejection procedure has been applied, the individual As one can see from the Fig. 3, the distance range corresponding to values of stellar positions, parallaxes, proper motions, and radial the main sequence stars occupies the relatively narrow range of the velocities has been used to solve by the linear least square method Galactocentric distances 7 kpc <'<9 kpc. On the contrary, sub- (LSM) the O–M model equations written for each local Galactic giants and red giants cover a much wider Galactocentric distance coordinate system. As a result, the derived kinematic parameters range, 0 kpc <'< 16 kpc. Therefore, the latter stellar sample is characterize the stellar velocity field within vicinity of each given better to trace the Galactic kinematics. The total amount of sub- point. giants and red giants is 4.5 million. The O–M model parameters allow to estimate a number of Each point, from which the observations would be made by kinematic and physical parameters related to the Galaxy as a whole. a fictitious observer, is placed on the G axis. The centers of the Within the simplified form of the O–M model is usually called spheres, restricting spacial volumes that contain stars around each as the Oort-Lindblad one Ogorodnikov (1965), the stellar velocity point, are located every 250 pc from ' =0 kpc to 16 kpc . The radii field is assumed to be axisymmetric. Herewith, the system rotates ′ A of the spheres have been set equal to 500 pc or 1000 pc. in the Galactic plane only, i.e. l3 = |l| while l1 and l2 are − To improve the accuracy of the derived results, in the specific equal to zero. In this case the value of "21 = l3 corresponds to coordinate system the special procedure has been carried out con- the Oort constant . The deformation also exists in the Galactic = + sisting in exclusion stars whose velocities deviate from the average plane only, i.e. it is characterized by the Oort constant "12, + + value by more than 3f. The rejection procedure has been carried while "13 and "23 are equal to zero. Contractions/expansions + + + out in each pixel on the celestial sphere that would be visible from "11, "22, "33 along the corresponding axes are not taken into the specific point. The pixelization has been made according to the account. The Oort constants are usually used in papers on kinematics HEALPix scheme (The Hierarchical Equal Area iso-Latitude Pixal- to characterize the Galactic rotation (for instance, Bovy (2017); ization, Gorsky et al. (2005)) with Nside = 10 that allows to divide Vityazev et al. (2018); Chengdong et al. (2019); Tsvetkov (2019)).
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Thus, the angular rotation velocity of the Galaxy in the Solar vicinity be wrongly to consider as actual any deviations of the values from is equal to zero out of the Galactocentric range 4–12 kpc, since the deviations can be caused, for instance, by shifting the LSM solutions due to the celestial sphere is not covered uniformly (distribution of objects Ω = − = "+ − l (9) 12 3 through the whole celestial sphere is not uniform). Nevertheless, In general, if not to restrict the stellar velocity field, taking we show in figures the Galactocentric distance range from 0 kpc + + to 16 kpc to have at least some understanding of behaviour of the into account the fact that the pairs (l1, "23) and (l2, "13) in the corresponding planes are analogous to the Oort constants and kinematic parameters near the Galactic center as well as in its outer respectively, for an arbitrary centroid located at the Galactocentric part. distance ' one can compute the angular rotation of the Galaxy velocity Ω':
4.1 Components of the rotational tensor Ω = + 2 + 2 + 2 ' ("12 − l3) +("13 − l2) +("23 − l1) (10) q As one can see from Fig. 4 (left panel), in the range 4–12 kpc the It is obvious that, knowing values of the Solar velocity com- parameters l1 and l2 are virtually equal to zero, while l3 gradu- ponents -⊙,.⊙ and /⊙, or velocity of an arbitrary point where the ally changes from –30 km s−1 kpc−1to –10 km s−1 kpc−1and at the origin of the coordinate system is placed, relative to the centroids, −1 −1 Solar distance has the value l3 = −13.5 ± 0.08 km s kpc which one can compute the velocity module +⊙ and the apex coordinates is found to be in good agreement with those given in numerous ! ⊙ and ⊙: papers (for instance, Vityazev & Tsvetkov (2012); Bovy (2017); Vityazev et al. (2018); Chengdong et al. (2019); Tsvetkov (2019); = 2 2 2 Velichko et al. (2020)). The behaviour of the components l1, l2 +⊙ -⊙ + .⊙ + /⊙ (11) q and l3 indicate that the vectors of instantaneous angular rotational velocity of the corresponding stellar systems are virtually perpen- dicular to the Galactic plane, and in the modulus almost coincide = .⊙ = /⊙ tg ! ⊙ , tg ⊙ (12) with the value l . Out of range 4–12 kpc the components of the -⊙ 2 2 3 -⊙ + .⊙ rotation vector l and l slightly change but we cannot guarantee q 1 2 the behaviour to be realistic, for the reasons mentioned above.
4 KINEMATIC PARAMETERS OF THE O–M MODEL It is worth noting that, at this stage of our kinematic analysis the 4.2 Components of the deformation velocity tensor O–M model parameters derived out of the range of Galactocentric distances 4–12 kpc, are not assumed to be reliable due to a variety The right panel of Fig. 4 demonstrates the deformation components of reasons. This is, first of all, significant decreasing the amount of + + + "12, "23, "13 in the corresponding planes. One can clearly see stars (the number of stars containing in each stellar system is given + that in the range 4–8 kpc "12 gradually increases from 0 to about in tables A1,A2). As a result, the uncertainties of the derived param- 16 km s−1 kpc−1that followed by a decrease up to 0 at ' = 12 kpc. eters increase. Moreover, the error bars grow since the astrometric + −1 −1 The value of "12 = 14.92± 0.08 km s kpc at the Solar distance parameters become less accurate with the heliocentric distance to also is in good agreement with estimations derived in numerous the sources. In third place, since the O–M model is linear, it can papers (the same ones as in subsection 4.1). As in the case of be confidently applied if the radius of the stellar system under ex- ′ rotational components, in the range 4–8 kpc the deformation tensor amination A is much less than the Galactocentric distance to the "+ "+ ′ components 13 and 23 are virtually equal to zero, while within stellar system ', i.e. A << '. Unfortunately, this condition is not the entire distance range 0–16 kpc their behaviour is very similar to fulfilled when analysing the stellar systems which are close to the that for l2 and l1 but with opposite sign. Galactic center (' < 4 kpc), although toward the Galactic anticenter the condition if well fulfilled. However, the main reason of unreliability is due to our es- timations of the parameters of rotation l ,l and deformation 1 2 4.3 Diagonal components of the deformation velocity tensor in HI and GI planes are actually the values averaged over the northern and southern Galactic hemispheres. In the papers by Left panel of Fig. 5 shows dependencies on Galactocentric distance + + + Vityazev & Tsvetkov (2014); Velichko et al. (2020) the stellar kine- of the kinematic parameters "11, "22 and "33 which characterize matics was analysed using the vector spherical harmonics. The au- contractions/expansions of the stellar systems under study along G, thors have shown that the values of the deformation velocity com- H, and I axes, respectively. As one can see in left panel of Fig. 5, the + + ponent "12 in the GH plane and rotation velocity l3 are equal in behaviour of "11 shows pronounced peculiarity in the Solar vicin- + + the northern and southern Galactic hemispheres. The values of the ity. At the same time, in range 4–12 kpc "22 and "33 do not show rotation velocity components l1, l2 as well as deformation veloc- such drastic changes in their behavior but demonstrate near zero + + ity components "23 and "13 have different signs in the northern variations. This indicates relatively small contractions/expansions and southern hemispheres while their modules are virtually equal. along the H and I axes within the specified distance range. The G- Therefore, it is not surprising that we see in Fig. 4 the near zero av- axis direction to the Galactic center (vertex), given inaccurate, may eraged values of these parameters within the range 4 <'< 12 kpc, be one of the reasons of the peculiar behaviour of the parameter ′ + since the centers of the spheres with radii A 500 pc and 1000 pc "11. However, to unambiguously establish the real reasons of the are located in the Galactic plane and encompass the stars of both behaviour requires additional investigations which will be present the northern and southern Galactic hemispheres. However, it would in our future papers.
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4.4 Components of the Solar velocity relative to different ! and . In this distance range, one can see that there are less + centroids and coordinates of the Solar apex noticeable but still obvious variations of the parameters "12 and l3. The values of -⊙,.⊙ and /⊙ relative to the centroid located Right panel of Fig. 5 shows the components of the linear Solar at the Solar distance, as well as the Solar apex coordinates are velocity, while its modulus and coordinates of the Solar apex are in good agreement with those given in other papers (for instance, given in Fig, 6 as functions of the Galactocentric distance. Vityazev & Tsvetkov (2014); Velichko et al. (2020)), that indicates As one can see from the right panel of Fig. 5, the component the behaviour of these Solar velocity components is realistic. of the Solar velocity vector -⊙ relative to centroids located within the range from 7 to 10 kpc undergoes noticeable changes, and at Thus, we have a very interesting result. We know that the Solar ' = 8 kpc has minimal value equal to 8.34 ± 0.06 km s−1 kpc−1at velocity relative to the centroids taken with opposite sign is equal to ' = 8.75 kpc. It worth noting that within the specified distance the velocity of centroids relative to the Sun. On the other hand, the + range the parameter "11 also changes significantly. It is obvious Solar velocity modulus relative to the Galactic center is constant. that the changes also affect the values of the Solar apex coordinates Hence, the behaviour of the centroids’ linear velocity components
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