The Multidimensional Milky Way
Abstract
Studying our Galaxy, the Milky Way (MW), gives us a close-up view of the interplay between cosmology, dark matter, and galaxy formation. In the next decade our understanding of the MW's dynamics, stellar populations, and structure will undergo a revolution thanks to planned and proposed astrometric, spectroscopic and photometric surveys, building on recent advances by the Gaia astrometric survey. Together, these new efforts will measure three-dimensional positions and velocities and numerous chemical abundances for stars to the MW's edge and well into the Local Group, leading to a complete multidimensional view of our Galaxy. Studies of the multidimensional Milky Way beyond the Gaia frontier---from the edge of the Galactic disk to the edge of our Galaxy's dark matter halo---will unlock new scientific advances across astrophysics, from constraints on dark matter to insights into galaxy formation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1903.07641,
title = {The Multidimensional Milky Way},
author = {Robyn E. Sanderson and Jeffrey L. Carlin and Emily C. Cunningham and Nicolas Garavito-Camargo and Puragra Guhathakurta and Kathryn V. Johnston and Chervin F. P. Laporte and Ting S. Li and S. Tony Sohn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.07641},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
Submitted as a whitepaper to the 2020 decadal survey. Typos corrected in last column of Table 1