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The Mass Profile of the Galaxy to 80 kpc

  • Authors: Oleg Y. Gnedin, Warren R. Brown, Margaret J. Geller, and Scott J. Kenyon

GNEDIN et al. 2010 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 720 L108.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Shaded regions illustrate the allowed range of circular velocity when the anisotropy parameter is varied from β = 0 to β = 0.5 for a fixed tracer density γ tr = 4 (bottom left toward top right) and when the tracer density is varied from γ tr = 3.5 to γ tr = 4.5 for a fixed β = 0.4 (top left toward bottom right), same as in Figure  2. Thick dashed line shows a representative fit for an NFW halo model (see the text for details). Independent constraints at 8, 50, 60, and 100 kpc are from McMillan & Binney (2010), Wilkinson & Evans (1999), Xue et al. (2008), and Watkins et al. (2010), respectively.

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