BHB candidates in the Milky Way Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Xue X.X.
  2. Rix H.W.
  3. Zhao G.
  4. Re Fiorentin P.
  5. Naab T.
  6. Steinmetz M.,van den Bosch F.C.
  7. Beers T.C.
  8. Lee Y.S.
  9. Bell E.F.
  10. Rockosi C.
  11. Yanny B.,Newberg H.
  12. Wilhelm R.
  13. Kang X.
  14. Smith M.C.
  15. Schneider D.P.
  16. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We derive new constraints on the mass of the Milky Way's dark matter halo, based on 2401 rigorously selected blue horizontal-branch halo stars from SDSS DR6. This sample enables construction of the full line-of-sight velocity distribution at different galactocentric radii. To interpret these distributions, we compare them to matched mock observations drawn from two different cosmological galaxy formation simulations designed to resemble the Milky Way. This procedure results in an estimate of the Milky Way's circular velocity curve to ~60kpc, which is found to be slightly falling from the adopted value of 220km/s at the Sun's location, and implies M(<60kpc)=(4.0+/-0.7)x10^11^M_{sun}_.

Keywords
  1. milky-way-galaxy
  2. infrared-photometry
  3. visible-astronomy
  4. Wide-band photometry
  5. radial-velocity
  6. horizontal-branch-stars
  7. metallicity
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2008ApJ...684.1143X
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/684/1143
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.16841143

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History

2010-12-23T08:55:34Z
Resource record created
2010-12-23T08:55:34Z
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2017-10-09T13:33:43Z
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