Comparison of the azimuthal vertical velocity profiles between the LMC optimal Combined sample and its different evolutionary phases. From top to bottom, Combined, BL, AGB, and RGB samples. Because of its low statistical representation, the Young sample is not displayed. Only radial bins with more than 25 sources are plotted. Each colour corresponds to a different azimuth ϕ defined in the LMC in-plane (x^′, y^′) Cartesian coordinate system – see schema in the top right panel. The vertical velocity uncertainty of each bin, determined by the MAD/ $\sqrt{N}$, is displayed in the transparent shadows of each curve. These uncertainties are generally small, and the shadows are therefore difficult to tell apart from the curves themselves.