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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

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

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

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

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

The mass of the Milky Way is a critical quantity which, despite decades of research, remains uncertain within a factor of two. Until recently, most studies have used dynamical tracers in the inner regions of the halo, relying on…

Discoveries of extended rotation curves have suggested the presence of dark matter in spiral galaxy haloes. It has led to many studies that estimated the galaxy total mass, mostly by using the Navarro Frenk and White (NFW) density profile.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-13 Yongjun Jiao , Francois Hammer , Jianling Wang , Yanbin Yang

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

We review the~current status of the~study of rotation curve (RC) of the~Milky Way, and~present a~unified RC from the~Galactic Center to the galacto-centric distance of about 100 kpc. The~RC is used to directly calculate the~distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-30 Yoshiaki Sofue

The escape velocity profile of the Milky Way offers a crucial and independent measurement of its underlying mass distribution and dark matter properties. Using a sample of stars from Gaia DR3 with 6D kinematics and strict quality cuts, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-02 Cian Roche , Lina Necib , Tongyan Lin , Xiaowei Ou , Tri Nguyen

We probe the gravitational force perpendicular to the Galactic plane at the position of the Sun based on a sample of red giants, with measurements taken from the DR3 Gaia catalogue. Measurements far out of the Galactic plane up to 3.5 kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-07-02 O. Bienaymé , A. C. Robin , J. -B. Salomon , C. Reylé

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

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

I provide a model rotation curve for the Milky Way that matches the details of the terminal velocity curve normalized to the Galactocentric distance $R_0 = 8.122$ kpc obtained by the GRAVITY collaboration and the corresponding circular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 Stacy McGaugh

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 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 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 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

We use a distribution function analysis to estimate the mass of the Milky Way out to 100 kpc using a large sample of halo stars. These stars are compiled from the literature, and the vast majority (~98%) have 6D phase-space information. We…

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
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