Velocity-space substructure from nearby RAVE and SDSS stars

Abstract

We extract a sample of disc stars within 200pc of the Sun from the RAVE and SDSS surveys. Distances are estimated photometrically and proper motions are from ground-based data. We show that the velocity-space substructure first revealed in the Geneva-Copenhagen sample is also present in this completely independent sample. We also evaluate action-angle variables for these stars and show that the Hyades stream stars in these data are again characteristic of having been scattered at a Lindblad resonance. Unfortunately, the analysis of such local samples can determine neither whether it is an inner or an outer Lindblad resonance, nor the multiplicity of the pattern. © 2011 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2011 RAS.