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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

Authors :
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
Source :
The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 967, Iss 2, p 89 (2024)
Publication Year :
2024
Publisher :
IOP Publishing, 2024.

Abstract

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 _

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
15384357
Volume :
967
Issue :
2
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
The Astrophysical Journal
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.698a786ac5b444cb9aeb73c3a98c4b67
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad382d