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The origin and structure of the hot ($T\gtrsim10^6$K) gaseous halo around Milky Way (MW)-mass galaxies provide a critical test for galaxy formation models. We perform a comprehensive comparison for a sample of MW analogues from the TNG50…

We suggest that the high--velocity clouds (HVCs) are large clouds, with typical diameters of 25 kpc and containing 5e7 solar masses of neutral gas and 3e8 solar masses of dark matter, falling onto the Local Group; altogether the HVCs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Leo Blitz , David N. Spergel , Peter J. Teuben , Dap Hartmann , W. Butler Burton

We study the formation of disks via the cooling flow of gas within galactic haloes using smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. These simulations resolve mass scales of a few thousand solar masses in the gas component for the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tobias Kaufmann , Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel , Ben Moore

The circumgalactic medium (CGM) of the Milky Way is mostly obscured by nearby gas in position-velocity space because we reside inside the Galaxy. Substantial biases exist in most studies on the Milky Way's CGM that focus on easier-to-detect…

We identify ten -- seven for the first time -- elements of cold halo substructure (ECHOS) in the volume within 17.5 kpc of the Sun in the inner halo of the Milky Way. Our result is based on the observed spatial and radial velocity…

We explore constraints on the Milky Way dark matter halo oblateness using three stellar streams from globular clusters NGC 3201, M68, and Palomar 5. Previous constraints on the gravitational potential from dynamical equilibrium of stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-08 Carles G. Palau , Jordi Miralda-Escudé

Current explanation of the overabundance of dark matter subhalos in the Local Group (LG) indicates that there maybe a limit on mass of a halo, which can host a galaxy. This idea can be tested using voids in the distribution of galaxies: at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Anton Tikhonov , Anatoly Klypin

A grand rotation curve of the Milky Way Galaxy is constructed, which covers a wide range of radius from the Galactic Center to ~1 Mpc, and is deconvolved into bulge, disk and halo components by least-squares fitting. We determined the scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Yoshiaki Sofue

The Local Group (LG) of galaxies is dominated by the M31 and Milky Way (MW) pair, a configuration which suggests that the mass distribution in the LG and its surroundings should be highly anisotropic. We use the APOSTLE cosmological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-05 Isabel M. E. Santos-Santos , Julio F. Navarro , Alan McConnachie

Disc galaxies like the Milky Way are expected to be surrounded by massive coronae of hot plasma that may contain a significant fraction of the so-called missing baryons. We investigate whether the local (|vLSR|<400 km/s) warm-hot absorption…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Marasco , F. Marinacci , F. Fraternali

In a serie of three papers, the dynamical interplay between environments and dark matter haloes is investigated, while focussing on the dynamical flows through their virial sphere. Our method relies on both cosmological simulations, to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dominique Aubert , Christophe Pichon

We characterise the radial density, metallicity and flattening profile of the Milky Way's stellar halo, based on the large sample of 1757 spectroscopically confirmed giant stars from SDSS/SEGUE-2 after excising stars that were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-26 Xiang-Xiang Xue , Hans-Walter Rix , Zhibo Ma , Heather Morrison , Jo Bovy , Branimir Sesar , William Janesh

Previous studies showed that an estimate of the likelihood distribution of the Milky Way halo mass can be derived using the properties of the satellites similar to the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC). However, it would be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Roberto E. Gonzalez , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Several studies have indicated that the local cosmic velocity field is rather cold, in particular in the regions outside the massive, virialized clusters of galaxies. If our local cosmic environment is taken to be a representative volume of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rien van de Weygaert , Yehuda Hoffman

We use A-type stars selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey data release 9 photometry to measure the outer slope of the Milky Way stellar halo density profile beyond 50 kpc. A likelihood-based analysis is employed that models the ugr…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Alis J. Deason , Vasily Belokurov , Sergey E. Koposov , Connie M. Rockosi

We analyze the origin of the large-scale bulk flow using the CosmicFlows-4 (CF4) peculiar-velocity catalog. We decompose the observed motions into internal components, generated by mass fluctuations within 200 Mpc/h, and external ones…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Richard Watkins , Hume A. Feldman

We present robust constraints from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) on the shape and distribution of the dark matter halo within the Milky Way (MW). Using the number density distribution and kinematics of SDSS halo stars, we probe the…

Multiwavelength observations, from radio to X-rays, have revealed the presence of multiphase high-velocity gas near the center of the Milky Way likely associated with powerful galactic outflows. This region offers a unique laboratory to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-12 Andrea Afruni , Enrico M. Di Teodoro , Lucia Armillotta , Callum A. Lynn , Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths

I review current efforts to measure the mean density of dark matter near the Sun. This encodes valuable dynamical information about our Galaxy and is also of great importance for 'direct detection' dark matter experiments. I discuss…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-16 J. I. Read

We have used N-body simulations for the Milky Way to investigate the kinematic and structural properties of the old metal-poor stellar halo in the barred inner region of the Galaxy. We find that the extrapolation of the density distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Angeles Pérez-Villegas , Matthieu Portail , Ortwin Gerhard