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Our position inside the Galactic disc had prevented us from establishing an accurate rotation curve, until the advent of Gaia, whose third data release (Gaia DR3) made it possible to specify it up to twice the optical radius. We aim to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-01 Yongjun Jiao , Francois Hammer , Haifeng Wang , Jianling Wang , Philippe Amram , Laurent Chemin , Yanbin Yang

Several works have recently applied Jeans modelling to Gaia-based datasets to infer the circular velocity curve for the Milky Way. Such works have consistently found evidence for a continuous decline in the rotation curve beyond $\sim$15kpc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-04 Orlin Koop , Teresa Antoja , Amina Helmi , Thomas M. Callingham , Chervin F. P. Laporte

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

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 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

In this paper, we construct a detailed circular velocity curve of the Milky Way out to 20 kpc based on the radial component of the Jeans equation in cylindrical coordinates, assuming an axisymmetric gravitational potential, and show its…

We discuss a model for the Milky Way obtained by fitting the observed terminal velocities with the radial acceleration relation. The resulting stellar surface density profile departs from a smooth exponential disk, having bumps and wiggles…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Stacy McGaugh

In the present work we derive an analytical expression for the mass density of an object with spherical symmetry, whose corresponding potential allows obtaining a circular velocity around it that is in agreement with the observed rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-09 José Enrique Hernández Ramírez

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 measure the circular velocity curve $v_{\rm c}(R)$ of the Milky Way with the highest precision to date across Galactocentric distances of $5\leq R \leq 25$ kpc. Our analysis draws on the $6$-dimensional phase-space coordinates of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-06 Anna-Christina Eilers , David W. Hogg , Hans-Walter Rix , Melissa Ness

Flat rotation curves of spiral galaxies are considered as an evidence for dark matter, but the rotation curve of the Milky Way is difficult to measure. Various objects were used to track the rotation curve in the outer parts of the Galaxy,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-09 P. Mroz , A. Udalski , D. M. Skowron , J. Skowron , I. Soszynski , P. Pietrukowicz , M. K. Szymanski , R. Poleski , S. Kozlowski , K. Ulaczyk

Demers and Battinelli published, in 2007 the rotation curve of the Milky Way based on the radial velocity of carbon stars outside the Solar circle. Since then we have established a new list of candidates for spectroscopy. The goal of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 P. Battinelli , S. Demers , C. Rossi , K. S. Gigoyan

Our goal is to calculate the circular velocity curve of the Milky Way, along with corresponding uncertainties that quantify various sources of systematic uncertainty in a self-consistent manner. The observed rotational velocities are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-07 Sven Põder , María Benito , Joosep Pata , Rain Kipper , Heleri Ramler , Gert Hütsi , Indrek Kolka , Guillaume F. Thomas

The rotation curve (RC) of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is constructed starting from its very inner regions (few hundred pc) out to a large Galactocentric distance of $\sim 200$ kpc using kinematical data on a variety of tracer objects moving…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Pijushpani Bhattacharjee , Soumini Chaudhury , Susmita Kundu

We derive the stellar rotation curve of the Galaxy in the range of Galactocentric radii of R=4-16 kpc at different vertical heights from the Galactic plane of z between -2 and +2 kpc. We used the PPMXL survey, which contains the USNO-B1…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

Most Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) exhibit measurable flattening, even if on a very low level. Both cluster rotation and tidal fields are thought to cause this flattening. Nevertheless, rotation has only been confirmed in a handful of…

We use the Iocco et al. (2015) compilation of 2,780 circular velocity measurements to analyze the Milky Way rotation curve. We find that the error bars for individual measurements are non-gaussian, and hence instead derive median statistics…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-09 Hai Yu , Aman Singal , Jacob Peyton , Sara Crandall , Bharat Ratra

In a previous paper by the author was proposed a new metric for the gravitational field of a thin rotating disk physically different from the Kerr metric. The metric is admissible for any angular momentum of the disk. As demonstrated in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-26 V. A. Golovko

The local stellar kinematics of the Milky Way offer a useful tool for studying the rotation curve of the Galaxy. These kinematics -- usually parameterized by the Oort constants A and B -- depend on the local gradient of the rotation curve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. P. Olling , M. R. Merrifield
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