Reconstructing the Mass Profile of the Milky Way

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May 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008dda....39.0104m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DDA meeting #39, #1.04

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I attempt to recover the radial surface mass density profile of the Milky Way from the observed terminal velocity curve. This procedure is formally straightforward but fraught in practice. I make use of the empirical coupling between luminous and total mass observed in external galaxies as an additional constraint. The result is a Milky Way with bumps and wiggles in its inferred surface brightness profile that is reminiscent of those observed in other spiral galaxies.

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