First results for the solar neighborhood of the Asiago Red Clump Survey

M. Valentini^1a, U. Munari², T. Saguner², K. Freeman³, S. Pasetto^4,5, J. Montalbán¹ and E.K. Grebel⁵

¹ Institute d’Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liége, 4000 Liège, Belgium
² INAF-OAPD-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, via dell’Osservatorio 8, 36012 Asiago, Italy
³ Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University, Weston Creek, ACT 2611, Australia
⁴ University College London, Dept. of Space & Climate Physics, Mullard Space Science Lab., UK
⁵ Astronomisches Recheninstitut, Universitaet Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

^a e-mail: valentini@astro.ulg.ac.be

Published online: 07 February 2012

Abstract

The Asiago Red Clump Spectroscopic Survey (ARCS) is an ongoing survey that provides atmospheric parameters, distances and space velocities of a well selected sample of Red Clump stars distributed along the celestial equator. We used the ARCS catalog for a preliminary investigation of the Galactic disk in the Solar Neighborhood, in particular we focused on detection and characterization of moving groups.