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We apply the vertical Jeans equation to the kinematics of Milky Way stars in the solar neighbourhood to measure the local dark matter density. More than 90,000 G- and K-type dwarf stars are selected from the cross-matched sample of LAMOST…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-10 Rui Guo , Chao Liu , Shude Mao , Xiang-Xiang Xue , R. J. Long , Lan Zhang

We determine the total dynamical matter density in the solar neighbourhood using the second Gaia data release (DR2). The dynamical matter density distribution is inferred in a framework of a Bayesian hierarchical model, which accounts for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-27 Axel Widmark

We determine the total dynamical density in the solar neighbourhood using the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) catalogue. Astrometric measurements of proper motion and parallax of stars inform us of both the stellar number density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-04 Axel Widmark , Giacomo Monari

We investigate the kinematics of red clump stars in the Solar Neighbourhood by combining data from TGAS and RAVE to constrain the local dark matter density. After calibrating the absolute magnitude of red clump stars, we characterize their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-25 Jorrit H. J. Hagen , Amina Helmi

We determine the Galactic potential in the solar neigbourhood from RAVE observations. We select red clump stars for which accurate distances, radial velocities, and metallicities have been measured. Combined with data from the 2MASS and…

We use stellar kinematics from the latest Gaia data release (DR2) to measure the local dark matter density $\rho_{\rm DM}$ in a heliocentric cylinder of radius $R= 150 \ {\rm pc}$ and half-height $z= 200 \ {\rm pc}$. We also explore the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-18 Jatan Buch , John Shing Chau Leung , JiJi Fan

Dynamical estimates of the mass surface density at the solar radius can be made up to a height of 4 kpc using thick disk stars as tracers of the potential. We investigate why different Jeans estimators of the local surface density lead to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , C. Flynn , J. A. de Diego

New and more reliable distances and proper motions of a large number of stars in the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS) catalogue allow to calculate the local matter density distribution more precisely than earlier. We devised a method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 Rain Kipper , Elmo Tempel , Peeter Tenjes

The vertical structure and dynamics of stars in our local Galactic neighbourhood contains much information about the local distribution of visible and dark matter and of perturbations to the Milky Way disc. We use data on the positions and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-08 Morgan Bennett , Jo Bovy

Measurement of the local dark matter density plays an important role in both Galactic dynamics and dark matter direct detection experiments. However, the estimated values from previous works are far from agreeing with each other. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Qiran Xia , Chao Liu , Shude Mao , Yingyi Song , Lan Zhang , R. J. Long , Yong Zhang , Yonghui Hou , Yuefei Wang , Yue Wu

The local dark matter density provides constraints on dark matter models and is of importance for experiments hoping to detect dark matter particles in the laboratory. The advent of extensive survey data calls for more complex physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-07 Laurin Söding , Ruben L. Bartel , Philipp Mertsch

We used red clump stars to measure the surface mass density of the Galactic disk in the solar neighbourhood. High resolution spectra of red clump stars towards the NGP have been obtained with the ELODIE spectrograph at OHP for Tycho-2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Bienaymé , C. Soubiran , T. V. Mishenina , V. V. Kovtyukh , A. Siebert

The distributions of normal matter and of dark matter in the Galaxy are coupled to each other as they both move in the common gravitational potential. In order to fully exploit this interplay and to derive the various properties of dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-16 Benjamin Burch , Ramanath Cowsik

Recent statistical deconvolution methods have produced extended kinematical maps in a range of heliocentric distances that are a factor of two to three larger than those analysed in the Gaia Collaboration based on the same data. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-14 Ž. Chrobáková , M. López-Corredoira , F. Sylos Labini , H. -F. Wang , R. Nagy

Vertical stellar kinematics+density can be used to trace the dark matter distribution [or the equivalent phantom mass in a Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) scenario] through Jeans equations. In this paper, we want to improve this type of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-16 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

We present a sample of $\sim$ 140,000 primary red clump (RC) stars of spectral signal-to-noise ratios higher than 20 from the LAMOST Galactic spectroscopic surveys, selected based on their positions in the metallicity-dependent effective…

We present a novel, data-driven analysis of Galactic dynamics, using unsupervised machine learning -- in the form of density estimation with normalizing flows -- to learn the underlying phase space distribution of 6 million nearby stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-05 Sung Hak Lim , Eric Putney , Matthew R. Buckley , David Shih

Several works have recently applied Jeans modelling to Gaia-based datasets to infer the circular velocity curve for the Milky Way. Such works have consistently found evidence for a continuous decline in the rotation curve beyond $\sim$15kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Orlin Koop , Teresa Antoja , Amina Helmi , Thomas M. Callingham , Chervin F. P. Laporte

We present a new method for determining the local dark matter density using kinematic data for a population of tracer stars. The Jeans equation in the $z$-direction is integrated to yield an equation that gives the velocity dispersion as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-10 Hamish Silverwood , Sofia Sivertsson , Pascal Steger , Justin I. Read , Gianfranco Bertone

The density of dark matter near the Sun is important for experiments hunting for dark matter particles in the laboratory, and for constraining the local shape of the Milky Way's dark matter halo. Estimates to date have typically assumed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-16 S. Sivertsson , J. I. Read , H. Silverwood , P. F. de Salas , K. Malhan , A. Widmark , C. F. P. Laporte , S. Garbari , K. Freese
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