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The kinematic dispersions of disc stars can be used to measure the dynamic contributions of baryons to the rotation curves of spiral galaxies and hence to trace the amount and distribution of the remaining dark matter. However, the simple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Frederic V. Hessman

We study the vertical density distribution of stars and gas (HI and H_2) in a galactic disk which is embedded in a dark matter halo. The new feature of this work is the inclusion of gas, and the gravitational coupling between stars and gas,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Chanda J. Jog

We develop a novel method to simultaneously determine the vertical potential, force and stellar $z-v_z$ phase space distribution function (DF) in our local patch of the Galaxy. We assume that the Solar Neighborhood can be treated as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Haochuan Li , Lawrence M. Widrow

Context: In our Paper I, by using statistical deconvolution methods, extended kinematics maps of Gaia-DR2 data have been produced in a range of heliocentric distances that are a factor of two to three larger than those analyzed previously…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 M. Lopez-Corredoira , F. Garzon , H. -F. Wang , F. Sylos Labini , R. Nagy , Z. Chrobakova , J. Chang , B. Villarroel

We present a catalogue of 551,214 main-sequence stars in the local ($d < 2$ kpc) Galactic thick disk and halo, based on a search of stars with large proper motions ($\mu_{\mathrm{tot}} > 40.0$ mas/yr) in the Gaia Early Data Release 3. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Bokyoung Kim , Sebastien Lépine

We construct a dynamical model of the Milky Way disk from a data set, which combines Gaia EDR3 and APOGEE data throughout Galactocentric radii between $5.0\leq R\leq19.5$ kpc. We make use of the spherically-aligned Jeans Anisotropic Method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-05 Maria Selina Nitschai , Anna-Christina Eilers , Nadine Neumayer , Michele Cappellari , Hans-Walter Rix

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

We determined the chemical and kinematic properties of the Galactic thin and thick disk using a sample of 307,246 A/F/G/K-type giant stars from the LAMOST spectroscopic survey and Gaia DR2 survey. Our study found that the thick disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-31 Yepeng Yan , Cuihua Du , Shuai Liu , Hefan Li , Jianrong Shi , Yuqin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhenyu Wu

Using the RR Lyrae surveys Gaia DR3 Specific Objects Study, PanSTARRS1 and ASAS-SN-II, we determine the Milky Way's thick disc scale length and scale height as well as the radial scale length of the galaxy's inner halo. We use a Bayesian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-05 Roman Tkachenko , Katherine Vieira , Artem Lutsenko , Vladimir Korchagin , Giovanni Carraro

We reexamined the framework used to determine the dark matter mass of a subhalo using the gravitational effects of its passage upon the stellar halo of a host. In particular, we aim to include different density distribution functions for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-01 M. E. Mosquera , K. J. Fushimi , M. J. de L. Domínguez Romero

Only recently, complex models that include the global dynamics from dwarf satellite galaxies, dark matter halo structure, gas infalls, and stellar disk in a cosmological context became available to study the dynamics of disk galaxies such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-14 B. García-Conde , T. Antoja , S. Roca-Fàbrega , F. Gómez , P. Ramos , N. Garavito-Camargo , MA. Gómez-Flechoso

AIMS. We calculate the stellar density using star counts obtained from Gaia DR2 up to a Galactocentric distance R=20 kpc with a deconvolution technique for the parallax errors. Then we analyse the density in order to study the structure of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 Z. Chrobakova , R. Nagy , M. Lopez-Corredoira

The rotation curve, the total mass and the gravitational potential of the Galaxy are sensitive measurements of the dark matter halo profile. In this publication cuspy and cored DM halo profiles are analysed with respect to recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Markus Weber , Wim de Boer

We aim to quantify the chemical and kinematical properties of the Galactic disks with a sample of 119,558 giant stars having abundances and 3D velocities taken or derived from the APOGEE DR17 and Gaia EDR3 catalogs. The Gaussian Mixture…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 Guozhen Hu , Zhengyi Shao

We consider a thickness of stellar disks of late-type galaxies by analyzing the R and K_s band photometric profiles for two independent samples of edge-on galaxies. The main goal is to verify a hypotesis that a thickness of old stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. V. Zasov , D. V. Bizyaev , D. I. Makarov , N. V. Tyurina

We use the Stripe 82 proper motion catalogue of Bramich et al. (2008) to study the kinematics of Galactic disk stars in the solar neighborhood. We select samples of dwarf stars with reliable spectra and proper motions. They have cylindrical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-02-08 Martin C. Smith , S. Hannah Whiteoak , N. W. Evans

Context. While Gaia enables to probe in great detail the extended local neighbourhood, the thin disk structure at larger distances remains sparsely explored. Aims. We aim here to build a non-parametric 3D model of the thin disc structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-16 C. Babusiaux , C. Fourtune-Ravard , C. Hottier , F. Arenou , A. Gomez

We present an analysis of the photometric parallaxes of stars in 21 BATC fields carried out with the National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC) 60/90 cm Schmidt Telescope in 15 intermediate-band filters from 3000 to 10000 {\AA}. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cuihua Du , Jun Ma , Zhenyu Wu , Xu Zhou

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…

The near proportionality between HI and dark matter in outer galactic disks prompted us to run N-body simulations of galactic disks in which the observed gas content is supplemented by a dark gas component representing between zero and five…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-04-30 Y. Revaz , D. Pfenniger , F. Combes , F. Bournaud