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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…

Flat rotation curves in disk galaxies represent the main evidence for large amounts of surrounding dark matter. Despite of the difficulty in identifying the dark matter contribution to the total mass density in our Galaxy, stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-15 Mariateresa Crosta , Marco Giammaria , Mario G. Lattanzi , Eloisa Poggio

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 study the dark matter (DM) surface density using the SPARC sample and {compare} it to Donato et al. (2009) result. By means of MCMC method, we infer the best-fitting parameters for each galaxy. We reobtain the scaling relation between…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-11 Yong Zhou , A. Del Popolo , Zhe Chang

The recent astrometric data of hundreds of millions of stars from Gaia DR3 has allowed a precise determination of the Milky Way rotation curve up to $28$~kpc. The data suggests a rapid decline in the density of dark matter beyond $19$~kpc.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-09 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Michael Hawkins

Observations of galaxies suggest a one-to-one analytic relation between the inferred gravity of dark matter at any radius and the enclosed baryonic mass, a relation summarized by Milgrom's law of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). However,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-Philippe Bruneton , Stefano Liberati , Lorenzo Sindoni , Benoit Famaey

The sensitivity of direct detection experiments depends on the phase-space distribution of dark matter near the Sun, which can be modeled theoretically using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies. However,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-08 Dylan Folsom , Carlos Blanco , Mariangela Lisanti , Lina Necib , Mark Vogelsberger , Lars Hernquist

Several recent studies have shown that very wide binary stars can potentially provide an interesting test for modified-gravity theories which attempt to emulate dark matter; these systems should be almost Newtonian according to standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland

We construct the first comprehensive dynamical model for the high-quality subset of stellar kinematics of the Milky Way disc, with full 6D phase-space coordinates, provided by the Gaia Data Release 2. We adopt an axisymmetric approximation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-24 Maria Selina Nitschai , Michele Cappellari , Nadine Neumayer

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

MONDian dark matter (MDM) is a new form of dark matter quantum that naturally accounts for Milgrom's scaling, usually associated with modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND), and theoretically behaves like cold dark matter (CDM) at cluster and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Doug Edmonds , Duncan Farrah , Chiu Man Ho , Djordje Minic , Y. Jack Ng , Tatsu Takeuchi

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

(Abridged) Axisymmetric models of the Milky Way exhibit strong interrelations between the Galactic constants (R_0 and T_0), the stellar columndensity (S_*) and the shape of the dark matter (DM) halo. Here we present analytical relations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. P. Olling , M. R. Merrifield

The modified newtonian dynamics (MOND) paradigm of Milgrom can boast of a number of successful predictions regarding galactic dynamics; these are made without the assumption that dark matter plays a significant role. MOND requires…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Jacob D. Bekenstein

The stellar halo of the Milky Way is built up, at least in part, from debris from past mergers. Stars from such merger events define substructures in phase-space, for example in the form of streams, which are groups of stars moving on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-04 Orlin Koop , Amina Helmi

The cold dark matter paradigm has been extremely successful for explaining a wide range of cosmological phenomena. Nevertheless, since evidence for non-baryonic dark matter remains indirect, all reasonable alternatives should be explored.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas Scott , Martin White , Joanne D. Cohn , Elena Pierpaoli

We compare six models (including the baryonic model, two dark matter models, two modified Newtonian dynamics models and one modified gravity model) in accounting for the galaxy rotation curves. For the dark matter models, we assume NFW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-10 Xin Li , Li Tang , Hai-Nan Lin

A recent analysis of data from the ESA Gaia mission demonstrated that the kinematics of stars in the Milky Way can be modelled without invoking the presence of dark matter whatsoever. Indeed, the higher-than-Keplerian velocities observed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-12 Davide Astesiano , Sergio L. Cacciatori , Massimo Dotti , Francesco Haardt , Federico Re

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

We test Milgromian dynamics (MOND) using wide binary stars (WBs) with separations of $2-30$ kAU. Locally, the WB orbital velocity in MOND should exceed the Newtonian prediction by $\approx 20\%$ at asymptotically large separations given the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Indranil Banik , Charalambos Pittordis , Will Sutherland , Benoit Famaey , Rodrigo Ibata , Steffen Mieske , Hongsheng Zhao