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We present the recent robust determination of the value of the Dark Matter density at the Sun's location ($\rho_\odot$) with a technique that does not rely on a global mass-modeling of the Galaxy. The method is based on the local equation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Fabrizio Nesti , Paolo Salucci

Numerical simulations indicate that correlations exist between the velocity distributions of stars and dark matter (DM). We study the local DM velocity distribution based on these correlations. We select K giants from LAMOST DR8…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-11 Hai Zhu , Rui Guo , Juntai Shen , Jianglai Liu , Chao Liu , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Lan Zhang , Shude Mao

We model the local stellar velocity field using position and velocity measurements for 4M stars from the second data release of Gaia. We determine the components of the mean or bulk velocity in ~27k spatially-defined bins. Our assumption is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Patrick Nelson , Lawrence M. Widrow

The absolute number and the density profiles of different types of stars in the solar neighborhood are a fundamental anchor for studies of the initial mass function, stellar evolution, and galactic structure. Using data from the Gaia DR1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-17 Jo Bovy

We present a new determination of the local dark matter phase-space density. This result is obtained implementing, in the limit of isotropic velocity distribution and spherical symmetry, Eddington's inversion formula, which links univocally…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Riccardo Catena , Piero Ullio

We use FIRE-2 zoom simulations of Milky Way size disk galaxies to derive easy-to-use relationships between the observed circular speed of the Galaxy at the Solar location, $v_\mathrm{c}$, and dark matter properties of relevance for direct…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-15 Patrick G. Staudt , James S. Bullock , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , David Kirkby , Andrew Wetzel , Xiaowei Ou

This work explores dynamical models of the Milky Way (MW) by analyzing a sample of 86,109 K giant stars selected through cross-matching the LAMOST DR8 and Gaia EDR3 surveys. Our earlier torus models in Wang et al. (2017) did not include…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-26 Guang-Chen Sun , Qiao Wang , Shude Mao , Yichao Li , Richard J. Long , Ping-Jie Ding , Yougang Wang , Xin Zhang , Xuelei Chen

The surface density and vertical distribution of stars, stellar remnants, and gas in the solar vicinity form important ingredients for understanding the star formation history of the Galaxy as well as for inferring the local density of dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Christopher F. McKee , Antonio Parravano , David J. Hollenbach

We present a catalogue of 551,214 main-sequence stars in the local ($d < 2$ kpc) Galactic thick disk and halo, based on a search of stars with large proper motions ($\mu_{\mathrm{tot}} > 40.0$ mas/yr) in the Gaia Early Data Release 3. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-05 Bokyoung Kim , Sebastien Lépine

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

The rotation curve, the total mass and the gravitational potential of the Galaxy are sensitive measurements of the dark matter halo profile. In this publication cuspy and cored DM halo profiles are analysed with respect to recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Markus Weber , Wim de Boer

In an earlier work, we demonstrated the effectiveness of Bayesian neural networks in estimating the missing line-of-sight velocities of Gaia stars, and published an accompanying catalogue of blind predictions for the line-of-sight…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-13 Aneesh P. Naik , Axel Widmark

Despite strong evidence for the existence of large amounts of dark matter (DM) in our Universe, there is no direct indication of its presence in our own solar system. All estimates of the local DM density rely on extrapolating results on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-23 Bradley J. Kavanagh , Timon Emken , Riccardo Catena

Using three-dimensional stellar kinematic data from simulated galaxies, we examine the efficacy of a Jeans equation analysis in reconstructing the total disk surface density, including the dark matter, at the "Solar" radius. Our simulation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-18 G. N. Candlish , R. Smith , C. Moni Bidin , B. K. Gibson

We study predictions for dark matter phase-space structure near the Sun based on high-resolution simulations of six galaxy halos taken from the Aquarius Project. The local DM density distribution is predicted to be remarkably smooth; the…

Recent studies have shown that the passage of a massive satellite through the disk of a spiral galaxy can induce vertical wobbles in the disk and produce features such as in-plane rings and phase-space spirals. Here we analyze a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Tim Haines , Elena D'Onghia , Benoit Famaey , Chervin Laporte , Lars Hernquist

We present a catalogue of white dwarf candidates selected from Gaia early data release three (EDR3). We applied several selection criteria in absolute magnitude, colour, and Gaia quality flags to remove objects with unreliable measurements…

Aims: Highly resolved maps of the local Galactic dust are an important ingredient for sky emission models. In nearly the whole electromagnetic spectrum one can see imprints of dust, many of which originate from dust clouds within 300pc.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-16 R. H. Leike , T. A. Enßlin

We discuss the relevance of directional detection experiments in the post-discovery era and propose a method to extract the local dark matter phase space distribution from directional data. The first feature of this method is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-18 Daniele S. M. Alves , Sonia El Hedri , Jay G. Wacker

We show that current microlensing and dynamical observations of the Galaxy permit to set interesting constraints on the Dark Matter local density and profile slope towards the galactic centre. Assuming state-of-the-art models for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-11-18 Fabio Iocco , Miguel Pato , Gianfranco Bertone , Philippe Jetzer