Charting the Galactic Acceleration Field. II. A Global Mass Model of the Milky Way from the STREAMFINDER Atlas of Stellar Streams Detected in Gaia DR3

Autor: Rodrigo Ibata, Khyati Malhan, Wassim Tenachi, Anke Ardern-Arentsen, Michele Bellazzini, Paolo Bianchini, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Elisabetta Caffau, Foivos Diakogiannis, Raphael Errani, Benoit Famaey, Salvatore Ferrone, Nicolas F. Martin, Paola di Matteo, Giacomo Monari, Florent Renaud, Else Starkenburg, Guillaume Thomas, Akshara Viswanathan, Zhen Yuan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 967, Iss 2, p 89 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1538-4357
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad382d
Popis: We present an atlas and follow-up spectroscopic observations of 87 thin stream-like structures detected with the STREAMFINDER algorithm in Gaia DR3, of which 28 are new discoveries. Here, we focus on using these streams to refine mass models of the Galaxy. Fits with a double-power-law halo with the outer power-law slope set to − β _h = −3 yield an inner power-law slope of $-{\gamma }_{h}=-({0.97}_{-0.21}^{+0.17}\,)$ , a scale radius of ${r}_{0,h}={14.7}_{-1.0}^{+4.7}\,\mathrm{kpc}$ , a halo density flattening q _m _, _h = 0.75 ± 0.03, and a local dark matter density of ρ _h _,⊙ = 0.0114 ± 0.0007 M _⊙ pc ^−3 . Freeing β yields $\beta ={2.53}_{-0.16}^{+0.42}$ , but this value is heavily influenced by our chosen virial mass limit. The stellar disks are found to have a combined mass of ${4.20}_{-0.53}^{+0.44}\times {10}^{10}\,{M}_{\odot }$ , with the thick disk contributing 12.4% ± 0.7% to the local stellar surface density. The scale lengths of the thin and thick disks are ${2.17}_{-0.08}^{+0.18}$ and ${1.62}_{-0.13}^{+0.72}\,\mathrm{kpc}$ , respectively, while their scale heights are ${0.347}_{-0.010}^{+0.007}$ and ${0.86}_{-0.02}^{+0.03}\,\mathrm{kpc}$ , respectively. The virial mass of the favored model is ${M}_{200}={1.09}_{-0.14}^{+0.19}\times {10}^{12}\,{M}_{\odot }$ , while the mass inside of 50 kpc is M _R _
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