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Anisotropy of the Milky Way’s Stellar Halo Using K Giants from LAMOST and Gaia

  • Authors: Sarah A. Bird, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chao Liu, Juntai Shen, Chris Flynn, and Chengqun Yang

2019 The Astronomical Journal 157 104.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Upper panel: three velocity dispersion components (﹩{\sigma }_{r},{\sigma }_{\theta },{\sigma }_{\phi }﹩) computed from the total sample of 7664 halo K giants. Each marker represents the end of our selected radial bins. The first bin contains stars within rgc = 5–7 kpc. Each consecutive bin is of width 1 kpc up to the bin ending at rgc = 30 kpc, after which our bin sizes progressively increase. The remaining bins end at rgc = 32, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60, and 105 kpc. Error bars are estimated from the Poissonian sampling in each bin. Lower panel: median errors (﹩\widetilde{\delta {V}_{r}},\widetilde{\delta {V}_{\theta }},\widetilde{\delta {V}_{\phi }}﹩) on the velocities as a function of Galactocentric radius, for the same bins as in the upper panel. The error estimates for each star are propagated from the LAMOST distance errors, LAMOST line-of-sight velocity errors, and two proper motion error estimates from Gaia DR2.

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