How to find the symmetry group of a vector field $x\partial_x+y\partial_y$

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I'm struggling with an exercise in Arnold's book about DEs, maybe someone could suggest a hint on how to solve it?

An exercise goes like this:

find the group of symmetries for a vector field $x\partial_x+y\partial_y$ on a plane with coordinates $(x,y).$ I know that rotations and homothetic transformations cenetred at the origin.

I was unable to prove that all symmetries are linear (i.e. generated by homotheties and rotation). I wrote down a system of PDEs to give conditions on diffeomorphism to preserve vector field, however, I don't know how to solve it.