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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 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

We determine the rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way in the range 6 < R < 18 kpc using a sample of 903 carefully selected classical Cepheids with precise proper motions and high-quality radial velocities from \emph{Gaia} DR3. Their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-29 Qikang Feng , Yang Huang , Huawei Zhang , Jifeng Liu

The rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way out to $\sim$ 100 kpc has been constructed using $\sim$ 16,000 primary red clump giants (PRCGs) in the outer disk selected from the LSS-GAC and the SDSS-III/APOGEE survey, combined with $\sim$ 5700…

We derived the inner rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way by applying the terminal velocity method (TVM) to the longitude-velocity diagrams (LVD) made from the large-scale survey data of the Galactic plane in the HI (HI4PI whole sky survey)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-02 Y. Sofue , M. Kohno

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

We review the~current status of the~study of rotation curve (RC) of the~Milky Way, and~present a~unified RC from the~Galactic Center to the galacto-centric distance of about 100 kpc. The~RC is used to directly calculate the~distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-30 Yoshiaki Sofue

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

The circular rotation speed of the Milky Way at the solar radius, Theta_o, has been estimated to be 220 km/s by fitting the maximum velocity of HI emission as a function of Galactic longitude. This result is in tension with a recent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-14 M. J. Reid , T. M. Dame

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

We present mass models of the Milky Way created to fit observational constraints and to be consistent with expectations from theoretical modelling. The method used to create these models is that demonstrated in McMillan (2011), and we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-07 Paul J. McMillan

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

The mass distribution of the Galactic disk is constructed from the terminal velocity curve and the mass discrepancy-acceleration relation. Mass models numerically quantifying the detailed surface density profiles are tabulated. For $R_0 =…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 Stacy S. McGaugh

We present a sample of 254,882 luminous red giant branch (LRGB) stars selected from the APOGEE and LAMOST surveys. By combining photometric and astrometric information from the 2MASS and Gaia surveys, the precise distances of the sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 Yuan Zhou , Xinyi Li , Yang Huang , Huawei Zhang

We present a sample of 1148 ab-type RR Lyrae (RRLab) variables identified from Catalina Surveys Data Release 1, combined with SDSS DR8 and LAMOST DR4 spectral data. We firstly use a large sample of 860 Galactic halo RRLab stars and derive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 Iminhaji Ablimit , Gang Zhao

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

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 dark matter distribution of the Milky Way remains among the major unsolved problems about our home galaxy. The masses of other spiral galaxies can be determined from their rotation curves through long-slit spectroscopy. But for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Peter M. Frinchaboy , Steven R. Majewski

We measure the escape speed curve of the Milky Way based on the analysis of the velocity distribution of $\sim 2850$ counter-rotating halo stars from the Gaia DR2. The distances were estimated through the StarHorse code, and only stars with…

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