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Trajectories of test particles in a time-varying nonspherical gravitational potential model of our Galaxy are considered. The role of the quadrupole component of the potential, which at distances greater than 50 kpc is associated with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-08 S. V. Pilipenko , N. R. Arakelyan

Context. Recent observational data show that the Milky Way (MW) galaxy contains about 170 globular clusters (GCs). A fraction of them is likely formed in dwarf galaxies accreted onto the MW in the past, while the remaining of clusters are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-24 M. Ishchenko , M. Sobolenko , P. Berczik , S. Khoperskov , C. Omarov , O. Sobodar , M. Makukov

Previous studies showed that an estimate of the likelihood distribution of the Milky Way halo mass can be derived using the properties of the satellites similar to the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC). However, it would be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Roberto E. Gonzalez , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Recently, we determined a lower bound for the Milky Way mass in a point mass approximation. This result was obtained for most general spherically symmetric phase-space distribution functions consistent with a measured radial velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-04 Szymon Sikora , Łukasz Bratek , Joanna Jałocha , Marek Kutschera

Understanding the evolution of satellite galaxies of the Milky Way (MW) and M31 requires modeling their orbital histories across cosmic time. Many works that model satellite orbits incorrectly assume or approximate that the host halo…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-11 Isaiah B. Santistevan , Andrew Wetzel , Erik Tollerud , Robyn E Sanderson , Jorge Moreno , Ekta Patel

We have studied the influence of an evolving gravitational potential of the Milky Way Galaxy on the orbital motion of 152 globular clusters with proper motions from the Gaia EDR3 catalogue and mean distances from Baumgardt and Vasiliev…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-23 A. T. Bajkova , A. A. Smirnov , V. V. Bobylev

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

The parameters of an axisymmetric model for the gravitational potential of the Galaxy have been refined. The basic curve of the Galaxy's rotation in a distance interval of $R:0-190$ kpc was constructed using the velocities of masers,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova , A. A. Smirnov

The Milky Way and the Local Sheet form a peculiar galaxy system in terms of the unusually low velocity dispersion in our neighbourhood and the seemingly high mass of the Milky Way for such an environment. Using the TNG300 simulation we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-04 M. A. Aragon-Calvo , Joseph Silk , Mark Neyrinck

We measure the three components of velocity dispersion, $\sigma_{R},\sigma_{\theta},\sigma_{\phi}$, for stars within 6 < R < 30 kpc of the Milky Way using a new radial velocity sample from the MMT telescope. We combine our measurements with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-11 Charles King , Warren R. Brown , Margaret J. Geller , Scott J. Kenyon

We combine the equations of motion that govern the dynamics of galaxies in the local volume with Bayesian techniques in order to fit orbits to published distances and velocities of galaxies within $\sim 3$ Mpc. We find a Local Group (LG)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Jorge Peñarrubia , Yin-Zhe Ma , Matthew G. Walker , Alan McConnachie

The Milky Way is a complex ecosystem, for which we can obtain detailed observations probing the physical mechanisms determining the interstellar medium. For a detailed comparison with observations, and to provide theories for missing…

We use the distribution of maximum circular velocities, $V_{max}$, of satellites in the Milky Way (MW) to constrain the virial mass, $M_{200}$, of the Galactic halo under an assumed prior of a $\Lambda$CDM universe. This is done by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-24 Marius Cautun , Carlos S. Frenk , Rien van de Weygaert , Wojciech A. Hellwing , Bernard J. T. Jones

We examine the implications of recent measurements of the Milky Way rotation for the trajectory of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The ~ 14+/-6% increase in the MW circular velocity relative to the IAU standard of 220 km/s changes the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Genevieve Shattow , Abraham Loeb

We investigate the impact of f(R) modified gravity on the internal properties of Milky Way sized dark matter halos in a set of cosmological zoom simulations of seven halos from the Aquarius suite, carried out with our code MG-GADGET in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Christian Arnold , Volker Springel , Ewald Puchwein

We examine the spatial distribution and orbital pole correlations of satellites in a suite of zoom-in high-resolution dissipationless simulations of Miky Way (MW) sized haloes. We use the measured distribution to estimate the incidence of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-08 Khanh Pham , Andrey Kravtsov , Viraj Manwadkar

We present a study illustrating the effects of the passage of a Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) mass satellite on the distance and velocity distributions of satellites in $\Lambda+$Cold Dark Matter simulations of Milky Way (MW) sized halos. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-24 Andrey Kravtsov , Sophia Winney

The ongoing interaction between the Milky Way (MW) and its largest satellite - the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - creates a significant perturbation in the distribution and kinematics of distant halo stars, globular clusters and satellite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-25 Lilia Correa Magnus , Eugene Vasiliev

We explore differences in Galactic halo kinematic properties derived from two commonly employed Galactic potentials: the St$\ddot{a}$ckel potential and the default Milky Way-like potential used in the "Galpy" package (MWPotential2014),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-02 Young Kwang Kim , Young Sun Lee , Timothy C. Beers
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