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Stellar Kinematics

Stellar Kinematics is the subfield of stellar astronomy that observationally measures and characterizes the motions and velocity distributions of stars in space, without explicitly treating the gravitational forces or dynamical processes that produce those motions.

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Parametric Recovery of Line‐of‐Sight Velocity Distributions from Absorption‐Line Spectra of Galaxies via Penalized Likelihood

Michele Cappellari, Éric Emsellem · Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific · 2004 · 2.2K citations · Full text

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Accretion Discs in Astrophysics

J. E. Pringle · Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics · 1981 · 2.2K citations

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Local kinematics and the local standard of rest

Ralph Schönrich, James Binney, Walter Dehnen · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2010 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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Dynamical Friction. I. General Considerations: the Coefficient of Dynamical Friction.

S. Chandrasekhar · The Astrophysical Journal · 1943 · 1.5K citations

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Improving the full spectrum fitting method: accurate convolution with Gauss–Hermite functions

Michele Cappellari · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 2016 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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  1. GG
    G. Gilmore

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    38 publications · 3.5K citations

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  2. JB
    Joss Bland‐Hawthorn

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    34 publications · 2.8K citations

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  3. PT
    P. T. de Zeeuw

    Leiden University, Netherlands

    32 publications · 7.3K citations

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  4. SU
    S. Udry

    University of Geneva, Switzerland

    37 publications · 3.7K citations

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  5. GM
    G. M. Seabroke

    University College London, United Kingdom

    27 publications · 2.7K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    77 h-index

    873 publications

    62.3K citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    Heidelberg, Germany

    59 h-index

    226 publications

    20.8K citations

  3. Space Telescope Science Institute

    Baltimore, United States

    51 h-index

    231 publications

    20K citations

  4. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    50 h-index

    184 publications

    12.8K citations

  5. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    50 h-index

    158 publications

    12.8K citations

  6. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    50 h-index

    168 publications

    34.5K citations

  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    47 h-index

    205 publications

    17.8K citations

  8. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    47 h-index

    178 publications

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 559 publications · 45.7K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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  3. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    398 publications · 24.6K citations

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  4. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 277 publications · 19.5K citations

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  5. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

    61 publications · 5K citations

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