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In this paper, we construct the circular velocity curve of the Milky Way out to $\sim 30$ kpc, providing an updated model of the dark matter density profile. We derive precise parallaxes for 120,309 stars with a data-driven model, using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-30 Xiaowei Ou , Anna-Christina Eilers , Lina Necib , Anna Frebel

Recent measurements of the Milky Way rotation curve found a sharp decline at around $15$-$20$ kpc from the center of the Galaxy, suggesting that the Galactic dark matter halo is much less massive than predicted by other dynamical tracers.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-11 Xiaowei Ou , Lina Necib , Andrew Wetzel , Anna Frebel , Jeremy Bailin , Micah Oeur

We use the rotation curve from Gaia data release (DR) 3 to estimate the mass of the Milky Way. We consider an Einasto density profile to model the dark matter component. We extrapolate and obtain a dynamical mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Yongjun Jiao , Francois Hammer , Haifeng Wang , Jianling Wang , Yanbin Yang

We determine the Milky Way (MW) mass profile inferred from fitting physically motivated models to the Gaia DR2 Galactic rotation curve and other data. Using various hydrodynamical simulations of MW-mass haloes, we show that the presence of…

We derive the mass model of the Milky Way (MW) using a cored dark matter (DM) halo profile and recent data. The method used consists in fitting a spherically symmetric model of the Galaxy with a Burkert DM halo profile to available data: MW…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Fabrizio Nesti , Paolo Salucci

An accurate knowledge of the dark matter distribution in the Milky Way is of crucial importance for galaxy formation studies and current searches for particle dark matter. In this paper we set new dynamical constraints on the Galactic dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-03 Miguel Pato , Fabio Iocco , Gianfranco Bertone

We investigate the dark matter profile of the Milky Way using the observed rotation curve data out to 100 kpc. The baryonic matter of the Milky Way is divided into bulge, disk and gas components, and each component is modelled using various…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-08-19 Hai-Nan Lin , Xin Li

In this paper, we study the rotation curves of the Milky Way galaxy (MW) and Andromeda galaxy (M31) by considering their bulge, disk, and halo components. We model the bulge region by the widely accepted de Vaucouleur's law and the disk…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-19 Darshan Kumar , Nisha Rani , Deepak Jain , Shobhit Mahajan , Amitabha Mukherjee

The circular velocity curve traced by stars provides a direct means of investigating the potential and mass distribution of the Milky Way. Recent measurements of the Galaxy's rotation curve have revealed a significant decrease in velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-26 Francesco Sylos Labini

We use data from the Gaia DR3 dataset to estimate the mass of the Milky Way (MW) by analyzing the rotation curve in the range of distances 5 kpc to 28 kpc. We consider three mass models: the first model adds a spherical dark matter (DM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Francesco Sylos Labini , Zofia Chrobakova , Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta , Martin Lopez-Corredoira

We investigate the rotation curve of the Milky Way using a multi-component mass model including a stellar disk, a gaseous disk, a bulge/bar component, and a dark-matter halo. The stellar and gas contributions are calibrated using recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-17 Zi Liu

We present a new estimate of the mass of the Milky Way, inferred via a Bayesian approach by making use of tracers of the circular velocity in the disk plane and stars in the stellar halo, as from the publicly available {\tt galkin}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-21 Ekaterina V. Karukes , Maria Benito , Fabio Iocco , Roberto Trotta , Alex Geringer-Sameth

Almost all spiral galaxies have been observed to have flattening rotation curves. The new Gaia DR3 released data shows a Milky Way sharply Keplerian declining rotation curve, starting at $\sim 16$ kpc and ending at 26.5 kpc. The data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-30 J. W. Moffat , H. Sharron , V. T. Toth

Using action-based distribution function for the dynamical model of the Milky Way we have estimated its total mass and its density profile. Constraints are coming from the globular cluster proper motions from Gaia EDR3, from the rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-30 Jianling Wang , Francois Hammer , Yanbin Yang

The rotation curve of the Milky Way is commonly used to estimate the local dark matter density $\rho_{{\rm DM},\odot}$. However, the estimates are subject to the choice of the distribution of baryons needed in this type of studies. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 P. F. de Salas , K. Malhan , K. Freese , K. Hattori , M. Valluri

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 structure, extent, and mass of the Milky Way's (MW) dark matter (DM) halo are observationally challenging to determine due to our position within the Galaxy. To overcome this limitation, we study a combined sample of 127 MW analogs from…

We estimate the mass of the inner ($<20$ kpc) Milky Way and the axis ratio of its dark matter halo using globular clusters as tracers. At the same time, we constrain the phase-space distribution of the globular cluster system. We use the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 Lorenzo Posti , Amina Helmi

Using realistic cosmological simulations of Milky Way sized haloes, we study their dynamical state and the accuracy of inferring their mass profiles with steady-state models of dynamical tracers. We use a new method that describes the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 Jiaxin Han , Wenting Wang , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk

A recent study, making use of the number of horizontal branch stars observed in infrared photometric surveys and kinematic measurements of M-giant stars from the BRAVA survey, combined with N-body simulations of stellar populations, has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-02 Dan Hooper
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