Making action-angle disc models for Gaia
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2015-07-29 v1
Abstract
A brief review of recent work. I describe dynamical modelling of the Milky Way using action-angle coordinates. I explain what action-angle coordinates are, and what progress has been made in the past few years to ensuring they can be used in reasonably realistic Galactic potentials. I then describe recent modelling efforts, and progress they have made in constraining the potential of the Milky Way and the local dark matter density.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1507.07889,
title = {Making action-angle disc models for Gaia},
author = {Paul J. McMillan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.07889},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages, published in the proceedings of the GREAT-ITN conference on "The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia", Barcelona, December 2014