In:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP), Vol. 486, No. 3 ( 2019-07-01), p. 2995-3005
Abstract:
We use ESA/Gaia astrometry together with SEGUE and LAMOST measurements of the GD-1 stellar stream to explore the improvement on the Galactic gravitational potential that these new data provide. Assuming a realistic universal model for the dark matter halo together with reasonable models of the baryonic components, we find that the orbital solutions for GD-1 require the circular velocity at the Solar radius to be $V_{\rm circ}({\rm R}_\odot) =244\pm 4{\rm \, km\, s^{-1}}$, and also that the density flattening of the dark halo is $q_{\rho }=0.82^{+0.25}_{-0.13}$. The corresponding Galactic mass within $20{\rm \, kpc}$ was estimated to be $M_{\rm MW}(\lt 20{\rm \, kpc})=2.5\pm 0.2 \times 10^{11} {\rm \, M_\odot }$. Moreover, Gaia’s excellent proper motions also allowed us to constrain the velocity dispersion of the GD-1 stream in the direction tangential to the line of sight to be $\lt 2.30{\rm \, km\, s^{-1}}$ (95 per cent confidence limit), confirming the extremely cold dynamical nature of this system.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0035-8711
,
1365-2966
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stz1035
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date:
2019
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2016084-7
SSG:
16,12
