Publications by James Binney
The properties of main-sequence stars from Hipparcos data
ESA SP PUBL 402 (1997) 279-282
We received a sample of 6840 Hipparcos stars south of declination -26 degrees that (i) have MK spectral types in the Michigan catalogues and (ii) had spectroscopic parallaxes that placed them within 80 pc of the Sun. Of these, 3727 are well determined as luminosity class V and actually lie within 100 pc. From this subsample we can determine the distribution in M-V of main-sequence stars of given spectral type for spectral types that range from early F to early K. These distributions are significantly non-Gaussian, but when fitted to Gaussians they yield central values of M-V in good agreement with earlier estimates of the absolute magnitudes of main-sequence stars. We also determine anew the distribution of B-V at each spectral type. We find that the dispersion in B-V at given spectral type is very small.
The luminosity function of main-sequence stars within 80 parsecs from Hipparcos data
ESA SP PUBL 402 (1997) 485-488
The basic data discussed here consist of parallaxes and apparent magnitudes of more than 6000 stars with delta < -26 degrees from the Hipparcos Catalogue which were selected from the Michigan Spectral Catalogue to have estimated spectroscopic distances within 80 parsecs. The statistical properties of the sample are briefly discussed, and the luminosity function of main sequence stars is determined by the maximum-volume method from nearly 3000 stars with observed parallaxes greater than 12.5 mas.
On the deprojection of axisymmetric bodies
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 279 (1996) 993-1004
On the deprojection of the Galactic bulge
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 279 (1996) 1005-1010
The shape of the disk: Clues from the kinematics of disk stars
UNSOLVED PROBLEMS OF THE MILKY WAY (1996) 11-21
Dynamical models of the Milky Way
FORMATION OF THE GALACTIC HALO....INSIDE AND OUT 92 (1996) 393-402
Probing non-axisymmetry with proper motions
ASTRONOMICAL AND ASTROPHYSICAL OBJECTIVES OF SUB-MILLIARCSECOND OPTICAL ASTROMETRY (1995) 239-246
PREDICTING LINE-OF-SIGHT VELOCITY DISTRIBUTIONS OF ELLIPTIC GALAXIES
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 271 (1994) 949-957
THE PRINCIPLE OF LEAST ACTION AND CLUSTERING IN COSMOLOGY
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 271 (1994) 719-728
CONSTRUCTION OF INVARIANT TORI AND INTEGRABLE HAMILTONIANS
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 73 (1994) 2377-2381
DYNAMICS OF GAS NEAR THE GALACTIC-CENTER
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 270 (1994) 703-719
TORUS CONSTRUCTION IN POTENTIALS SUPPORTING DIFFERENT ORBIT FAMILIES
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 268 (1994) 1033-1040
MODIFIED MOMENTS AND THE OORT CONSTANTS
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 266 (1994) 273-281