The Mass Profile of the Galaxy to 80 kpc
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- Gnedin, Oleg Y., Brown, Warren R., Geller, Margaret J., and Kenyon, Scott J. 2010. "The Mass Profile of the Galaxy to 80 kpc." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 720 L108–L112. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/720/1/L108.
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Abstract
- The Hypervelocity Star Survey presents the currently largest sample of radial velocity measurements of halo stars out to 80 kpc. We apply spherical Jeans modeling to these data in order to derive the mass profile of the Galaxy. We restrict the analysis to distances larger than
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- 2010
