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Three methods for computing the total star formation rate of the Milky Way agree well with a reference value of $1.65\pm0.19$ M$_\odot$ yr$^{-1}$. They are then used to determine the radial dependence of the star formation rate and face-on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-27 D. Elia , N. J. Evans , J. D. Soler , F. Strafella , E. Schisano , S. Molinari , A. Giannetti , S. Patra

We develop a new method to reconstruct the cosmic density field from the distribution of dark matter haloes above a certain mass threshold. Our motivation is that well-defined samples of galaxy groups/clusters, which can be used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Y. Wang , H. J. Mo , Y. P. Jing , Y. C. Guo , Frank C. van den Bosch , X. H. Yang

We present a catalog of distances for 19544 K giants drawn from LAMOST DR8. Most of them are located in the halo of the Milky Way up to ~120~kpc. There are 15% K giants without SDSS photometry, for which we supplements with Pan-STARRS1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-08 Lan Zhang , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Chengqun Yang , Feilu Wang , Hans-Walter Rix , Gang Zhao , Chao Liu

Using deep photometric data from WFC@INT and [email protected] we measure the outer number density profiles of 19 stellar clusters located in the inner region of the Milky Way halo (within a Galactocentric distance range of 10-30 kpc) in order to…

We use Legacy Survey photometric data to probe the stellar halo in multiple directions of the sky using a probabilistic methodology to identify Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) stars. The measured average radial density profile follows a double…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-09 João A. S. Amarante , Sergey E. Koposov , Chervin F. P. Laporte

In this paper we explore a quantitative and efficient method to constrain the halo properties of distant galaxy populations through ``galaxy--galaxy" lensing and show that the mean masses and sizes of halos can be estimated accurately,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Peter Schneider , Hans-Walter Rix

Taking advantage of the Photometric objects Around Cosmic webs (PAC) method developed in Paper I, we measure the excess surface density $\bar{n}_2w_{{\rm{p}}}$ of photometric objects around spectroscopic objects down to stellar mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-28 Kun Xu , Y. P. Jing , Yun Zheng , Hongyu Gao

We develop a new method to account for the finite lifetimes of stars and trace individual abundances within a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. At variance with previous methods, based on the storage of the (binned) past star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Gabriella De Lucia , Luca Tornatore , Carlos S. Frenk , Amina Helmi , Julio F. Navarro , Simon D. M. White

The distribution of shapes of galaxies' dark halos provides a basic test for models of galaxy formation. To-date, few dark halo shapes have been measured, and the results of different methods appear contradictory. Here, we add to the sample…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. P. Olling , M. R. Merrifield

We present new high angular resolution near-infrared spectroscopic observations of the nuclear star cluster surrounding the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. Using the integral-field spectrograph OSIRIS on Keck II behind the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tuan Do , Jessica R. Lu , Andrea M. Ghez , Mark R. Morris , Sylvana Yelda , Gregory D. Martinez , Shelley A. Wright , Keith Matthews

We present the first results of a study where we determine the metallicity distribution function in the Galactic disks as a function of height above the Galactic plane. Observations in the Stromgren photometric system enables us to identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-11 Anna S. Arnadottir , Sofia Feltzing , Ingemar Lundstrom

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) travel from the Galactic Centre across the dark matter halo of the Milky Way, where they are observed with velocities in excess of the Galactic escape speed. Because of their quasi-radial trajectories, they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-14 O. Contigiani , E. M. Rossi , T. Marchetti

We present a simple method for fitting parametrized mass models of the Milky Way to observational constraints. We take a Bayesian approach which allows us to take into account input from photometric and kinematic data, and expectations from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Paul J. McMillan

We estimate the 3D density profile of the Galactic dark matter (DM) halo within $r \lesssim 30$ kpc from the Galactic centre by using the astrometric data for halo RR Lyrae stars from Gaia DR2. We model both the stellar halo distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-20 Kohei Hattori , Monica Valluri , Eugene Vasiliev

Measuring the density profile of dark matter in the Solar neighborhood has important implications for both dark matter theory and experiment. In this work, we apply autoregressive flows to stars from a realistic simulation of a Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Matthew R Buckley , Sung Hak Lim , Eric Putney , David Shih

In this work, we select the high signal-to-noise ratio spectra of stars from the LAMOST data andmap theirMK classes to the spectral features. The equivalentwidths of the prominent spectral lines, playing the similar role as the multi-color…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-25 Chao Liu , Wen-Yuan Cui , Bo Zhang , Jun-Chen Wan , Li-Cai Deng , Yonghui Hou , Yuefei Wang , Ming Yang , Yong Zhang

Context. Large spectroscopic surveys open the way to explore our Galaxy. In order to use the data from these surveys to understand the Galactic stellar population, we need to be sure that stars contained in a survey are a representative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-26 Alexey Mints , Saskia Hekker

We present a panoramic map of the entire Milky Way halo north of dec~-30 degrees (~30,000 deg^2), constructed by applying the matched-filter technique to the Pan-STARRS1 3Pi Survey dataset. Using single-epoch photometry reaching to g~22, we…

We construct a large set of dynamical models of the galactic bulge, bar and inner disk using the Made-to-Measure method. Our models are constrained to match the red clump giant density from a combination of the VVV, UKIDSS and 2MASS…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 Matthieu Portail , Ortwin Gerhard , Christopher Wegg , Melissa Ness

We have developed a method for deriving the distribution of the Milky Way's interstellar medium as a function of longitude, latitude, distance and line-of-sight velocity. This method takes as input maps of reddening as a function of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Kirill Tchernyshyov , J. E. G. Peek