• DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/794/1/59
Corpus ID: 119040135

On the Shoulders of Giants: Properties of the Stellar Halo and the Milky Way Mass Distribution

@article{Kafle2014OnTS,
  title={On the Shoulders of Giants: Properties of the Stellar Halo and the Milky Way Mass Distribution},
  author={P. Kafle and S. Sharma and G. Lewis and J. Bland-hawthorn},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2014},
  volume={794},
  pages={59}
}

P. Kafle, S. Sharma, +1 author J. Bland-hawthorn

Published 2014

Physics

The Astrophysical Journal

Halo stars orbit within the potential of the Milky Way, and hence their kinematics can be used to understand the underlying mass distribution. However, the inferred mass distribution depends sensitively on assumptions made on the density and the velocity anisotropy profiles of the tracer population. Also, there is a degeneracy between the parameters of the halo and those of the disk or bulge. Most previous attempts that use halo stars have made arbitrary assumptions about these. In this paper… CONTINUE READING

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