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We selected BHB stars based on synthetic photometry and stellar atmosphere parameters inferred from Gaia Bp/Rp spectra. We generated the synthetic SDSS broad-band $ugr$ and Pristine narrow-band CaHK magnitudes from Gaia Bp/Rp data. A…

We study the vertical stellar distribution of the Milky Way thin disk in detail with particular focus on the outer disk. We treat the galactic disk as a gravitationally coupled, three-component system consisting of stars, atomic hydrogen…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-03 Suchira Sarkar , Chanda J Jog

In this study, we modify the semi-analytic model Galacticus in order to accurately reproduce the observed properties of dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way. We find that reproducing observational determinations of the halo occupation fraction…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-20 Niusha Ahvazi , Andrew Benson , Laura V. Sales , Ethan O. Nadler , Sachi Weerasooriya , Xiaolong Du , Mia Sauda Bovill

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

The phase space coordinates of individual halo stars obtained by Galactic surveys enable the computation of their full 3-dimensional orbits. Spectral analysis of halo orbits can be used to construct "frequency maps" which provide a compact…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Monica Valluri , Victor P. Debattista , Thomas R. Quinn , Rok Roskar , James Wadsley

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

This paper explores the mapping between the observable properties of a stellar halo in phase- and abundance-space and the parent galaxy's accretion history in terms of the characteristic epoch of accretion and mass and orbits of progenitor…

We present models for the three-point correlation function (3PCF) of both dark matter and galaxies. We show that models based on the halo model can reasonably match the dark matter 3PCF obtained from high-resolution $N$-body simulations. On…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu Wang , Xiaohu Yang , H. J. Mo , Frank C. van den Bosch , YaoQuan Chu

We combine the six high-resolution Aquarius dark matter simulations with a semi-analytic galaxy formation model to investigate the properties of the satellites of Milky Way-like galaxies. We find good correspondence with the observed…

We construct a model for the Galactic globular cluster system based on a realistic gravitational potential and a distribution function (DF) analytic in the action integrals. The DF comprises disc and halo components whose functional forms…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 James Binney , Leong Khim Wong

We developed a new selection method of halo stars in the phase-space distribution defined by the three integrals of motion in an axisymmetric Galactic potential, ($E$, $L_z$, $I_3$), where $I_3$ is the third integral of motion. The method…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Daniela Carollo , Masashi Chiba

We present a proposal for the full phase space distribution of the Milky Way halo. The model is axially and reflection symmetric and its time evolution is self-similar. It describes the halo as a set of discrete dark matter flows with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-20 L. D. Duffy , P. Sikivie

As a basic characteristic of cosmic ray (CR) propagation, the diffusive halo can advance our understanding of many CR-related studies and indirect dark matter. The method to derive the halo size usually has degeneracy problems thus affected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Yu-Hua Yao , Bing-Qiang Qiao , Wei Liu , Qiang Yuan , Hong-Bo Hu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Chao-Wen Yang , Yi-Qing Guo

We re-analyse the velocity-dispersion profile sigma(r) at radii r>10 kpc in the Galactic stellar halo, recently derived by Battaglia et al. (2005), who concluded that, for constant velocity anisotropy of the tracers, these data rule out a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Walter Dehnen , Dean McLaughlin , Jalpesh Sachania

The halo stars on highly radial orbits should inevitably pass the center regions of the Milky Way. Under the assumption that the stellar halo is in dynamical equilibrium and axisymmetric, we integrate the orbits of $\sim 10,000$ halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-16 Chengqun Yang , Ling Zhu , Behzad Tahmasebzadeh , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Chao Liu

We estimated the Galactic model parameters by means of a new approach based on the comparison of the observed space density functions per absolute magnitude interval with a unique density law for each population individually, and via the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Karaali , S. Bilir , E. Hamzaoglu

Fast radio bursts offer the opportunity to place new constraints on the mass and density profile of hot and ionized gas in galactic haloes. We test here the X-ray emission and dispersion measure predicted by different gas profiles for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Laura C. Keating , Ue-Li Pen

Empirical methods for connecting galaxies to their dark matter halos have become essential for interpreting measurements of the spatial statistics of galaxies. In this work, we present a novel approach for parameterizing the degree of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-30 Benjamin V. Lehmann , Yao-Yuan Mao , Matthew R. Becker , Samuel W. Skillman , Risa H. Wechsler

The gravitational interaction between the Milky Way (MW) and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) perturbs the MW halo's density and kinematics, encoding information about both galaxies' masses and structures. We present a suite of 2,848…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Yanjun Sheng , Yuan-Sen Ting , Xiang-Xiang Xue

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