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Alternatives to the cold, collisionless dark matter (DM) paradigm in which DM behaves as a collisional fluid generically suppress small-scale structure. Herein we use the observed population of Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Ethan O. Nadler , Vera Gluscevic , Kimberly K. Boddy , Risa H. Wechsler

We present the results of a new, non-parametric method to reconstruct the Galactic dark matter profile directly from observations. Using the latest kinematic data to track the total gravitational potential and the observed distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-07 Miguel Pato , Fabio Iocco

Studying the trajectories of objects like stars, globular clusters or satellite galaxies in the Milky Way allows to trace the dark matter halo but requires reliable models of its gravitational potential. Realistic, yet simple and fully…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-23 Andreas Irrgang , Benjamin Wilcox , Evan Tucker , Lucas Schiefelbein

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

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

We construct a model for the Milky Way Galaxy composed of a stellar disc and bulge embedded in a dark-matter halo. All components are modelled as $N$-body systems with up to 8 billion equal-mass particles and integrated up to an age of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 Michiko S. Fujii , Jeroen Bédorf , Junichi Baba , Simon Portegies Zwart

The ubiquitous presence of dark matter in the universe is today a central tenet in modern cosmology and astrophysics. Ranging from the smallest galaxies to the observable universe, the evidence for dark matter is compelling in dwarfs,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-16 Fabio Iocco , Miguel Pato , Gianfranco Bertone

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

We derive new constraints on the mass of the Milky Way's dark matter halo, based on a set of halo stars from SDSS as kinematic tracers. Our sample comprises 2401 rigorously selected Blue Horizontal-Branch (BHB) halo stars drawn from SDSS…

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 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

High precision proper motion (PM) measurements are available for approximately 20% of all known dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way (MW). Here we extend the Bayesian framework of Patel et al. (2017b) to include all MW satellites with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Ekta Patel , Gurtina Besla , Kaisey Mandel , Sangmo Tony Sohn

In this paper we combine high resolution N-body simulations with a semi analytical model of galaxy formation to study the effects of a possible Warm Dark Matter (WDM) component on the observable properties of galaxies. We compare three WDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Xi Kang , Andrea V. Macciò , Aaron A. Dutton

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

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

A new model of the Milky Way (MW) halo component of the dispersion measure (DM) for extragalactic sources, such as fast radio bursts (FRBs), is presented in light of recent diffuse X-ray observations. In addition to the spherical component…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomonori Totani

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 explore the connection between galaxies and dark matter halos in the Milky Way (MW) and quantify the implications on properties of the dark matter particle and the phenomenology of low-mass galaxy formation. This is done through a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Prashin Jethwa , Denis Erkal , Vasily Belokurov

In this paper, we have investigated one of the alternative theories to dark matter named MOdified Gravity (MOG) by testing its ability to describe the local dynamics of the Milky Way in vertical and transverse directions with the baryonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-15 Zahra Davari , Sohrab Rahvar

Indications of disequilibrium throughout the Milky Way (MW) highlight the need for compact,flexible, non-parametric descriptions of phase--space distributions of galaxies. We present a new representation of the current Dark Matter (DM)…