Local kinematics of K and M giants from CORAVEL/Hipparcos/Tycho-2 data
Local kinematics of K and M giants from CORAVEL/Hipparcos/Tycho-2 data
The availability of the Hipparcos Catalogue triggered many kinematic and dynamical studies of the solar neighbourhood. Nevertheless, those studies generally lacked the third component of the space velocities, i.e., the radial velocities. This work presents the kinematic analysis of 5952 K and 739 M giants in the solar neighbourhood which …