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The mass of the Milky Way from satellite dynamics [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019 Abstract We present and apply a method to infer the mass of the Milky Way (MW) by comparing the dynamics of MW satellites to those of model satellites in the eagle cosmological hydrodynamics simulations. A distribution function (DF) for galactic satellites is constructed from eagle using specific angular momentum and specific energy ...
Thomas M Callingham +2 more
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Modified Newtonian dynamics in the Milky Way [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2005 Both microlensing surveys and radio-frequency observations of gas flow imply that the inner Milky Way is completely dominated by baryons, contrary to the predictions of standard cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology. We investigate the predictions of the Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) formula for the Galaxy given the measured baryon distribution ...
Famaey, Benoît, Binney, James
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Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 2006 The Milky Way is made up of a central bar, a disk with embedded spiral arms, and a dark matter halo. Observational and theoretical constraints for the characteristic parameters of these components will be presented, with emphasis on the constraints from the dynamics of the Milky Way gas.
Peter Englmaier +2 more
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Milky Way dynamics in light of Gaia
New Astronomy ReviewsThe Gaia mission has triggered major developments in the field of Galactic dynamics in recent years, which we discuss in this review. The structure and kinematics of all Galactic components - disc, bar/bulge and halo - are now mapped in great detail not only in the Solar neighbourhood, but across a large part of the Milky Way. The dramatic improvements
Jason A S Hunt, Eugene Vasiliev
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Dynamically constraining the length of the Milky way bar
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023 ABSTRACT We present a novel method for constraining the length of the Galactic bar using 6D phase-space information to directly integrate orbits. We define a pseudo-length for the Galactic bar, named RFreq, based on the maximal extent of trapped bar orbits.
Madeline Lucey +7 more
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ACTION-BASED DYNAMICAL MODELING FOR THE MILKY WAY DISK [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 ABSTRACT We present RoadMapping, a full-likelihood dynamical modeling machinery that aims to recover the Milky Way’s (MW) gravitational potential from large samples of stars in the Galactic disk. RoadMapping models the observed positions and velocities of stars with a parameterized, three-integral distribution function (DF) in a ...
Wilma H. Trick, Jo Bovy, Hans-Walter Rix
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Chemodynamical Analysis of Metal-rich High-eccentricity Stars in the Milky Way's Disk
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We present a chemodynamical analysis of 11,562 metal-rich, high-eccentricity halo-like main-sequence stars, which have been referred to as the Splash or Splashed Disk, selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber ...
Ayeon Lee +4 more
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Orbital characteristics based on Gaia Early Data Release 3 astrometric parameters are analyzed for ∼1700 r -process-enhanced (RPE; [Eu/Fe] > +0.3) metal-poor stars ([Fe/H] ≤ −0.8) compiled from the R -Process Alliance, the GALactic Archaeology with ...
Derek Shank +10 more
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A dynamically young and perturbed Milky Way disk [PDF]
Nature, 2018 The evolution of the Milky Way disk, which contains most of the stars in the Galaxy, is affected by several phenomena. For example, the bar and the spiral arms of the Milky Way induce radial migration of stars and can trap or scatter stars close to orbital resonances.
Antoja, T. +12 more
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Building an Acceleration Ladder with Tidal Streams and Pulsar Timing
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 We analyse stellar streams in action-angle coordinates combined with recent local direct acceleration measurements to provide joint constraints on the potential of our galaxy.
Peter Craig +3 more
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