THE GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL NEAR THE SUN FROM SEGUE K-DWARF KINEMATICS
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| 作者 | Zhang, Lan1,2,3 ; Rix, Hans-Walter3; van de Ven, Glenn3; Bovy, Jo4; Liu, Chao1; Zhao, Gang1
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| 刊名 | ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
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| 出版日期 | 2013-08-01 |
| 卷号 | 772期号:2 |
| 关键词 | Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics Galaxy: structure solar neighborhood |
| 英文摘要 | To constrain the Galactic gravitational potential near the Sun (similar to 1.5 kpc), we derive and model the spatial and velocity distributions for a sample of 9000 K-dwarfs with spectra from SDSS/SEGUE, which yield radial velocities and abundances ([Fe/H] and [alpha/Fe]). We first derive the spatial density distribution for three abundance-selected sub-populations of stars accounting for the survey's selection function. The vertical profiles of these sub-populations are simple exponentials and their vertical dispersion profile is nearly isothermal. To model these data, we apply the "vertical" Jeans equation, which relates the observable tracer number density and vertical velocity dispersion to the gravitational potential or vertical force. We explore a number of functional forms for the vertical force law, fit the dispersion and density profiles of all abundance-selected sub-populations simultaneously in the same potential, and explore all parameter co-variances using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo technique. Our fits constrain a disk mass scale height less than or similar to 300 pc and the total surface mass density to be 67 +/- 6 M-circle dot pc(-2) at vertical bar z vertical bar = 1.0 kpc of which the contribution from all stars is 42 +/- 5 M-circle dot pc(-2) (assuming a contribution from cold gas of 13 M-circle dot pc(-2)). We find significant constraints on the local darkmatter density of 0.0065 +/- 0.0023 M-circle dot pc(-3) (0.25 +/- 0.09 GeV cm(-3)). Together with recent experiments this firms up the best estimate of 0.0075 +/- 0.0021 M-circle dot pc(-3) (0.28 +/- 0.08 GeV cm(-3)), consistent with global fits of approximately round dark matter halos to kinematic data in the outskirts of the Galaxy. |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000322024700030 |
| 源URL | [http://ir.bao.ac.cn/handle/114a11/5829]  |
| 专题 | 国家天文台_光学天文研究部 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Optic Astron, Natl Astron Observ, Beijing 100012, Peoples R China 2.Grad Univ, Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Max Planck Inst Astron, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany 4.Inst Adv Study, Princeton, NJ 08540 USA |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang, Lan,Rix, Hans-Walter,van de Ven, Glenn,et al. THE GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL NEAR THE SUN FROM SEGUE K-DWARF KINEMATICS[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,2013,772(2). |
| APA | Zhang, Lan,Rix, Hans-Walter,van de Ven, Glenn,Bovy, Jo,Liu, Chao,&Zhao, Gang.(2013).THE GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL NEAR THE SUN FROM SEGUE K-DWARF KINEMATICS.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL,772(2). |
| MLA | Zhang, Lan,et al."THE GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL NEAR THE SUN FROM SEGUE K-DWARF KINEMATICS".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 772.2(2013). |
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