GD-1 stellar stream

DOI

We use ESA/Gaia astrometry together with SEGUE and LAMOST measurements of the GD-1 stellar stream to explore the improvement on the Galactic gravitational potential that these new data provide. Assuming a realistic universal model for the dark matter halo together with reasonable models of the baryonic components, we find that the orbital solutions for GD-1 require the circular velocity at the Solar radius to be V_circ_(R_{sun})=244+/-4km/s, and also that the density flattening of the dark halo is q_rho=0.82^+0.25^-0.13. The corresponding Galactic mass within 20kpc was estimated to be M_MW_(<20kpc)=2.5+/-0.2x10^11^M_{sun}_. Moreover, Gaia's excellent proper motions also allowed us to constrain the velocity dispersion of the GD-1 stream in the direction tangential to the line of sight to be <2.30km/s (95% confidence limit), confirming the extremely cold dynamical nature of this system.

Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/486/2995/table2 (GD-1 star members with measured line-of-sight velocities from SEGUE and LAMOST)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.74862995
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/486/2995
Related Identifier https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/486/2995
Related Identifier https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/486/2995
Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/486/2995
Provenance
Creator Malhan K.; Ibata R.A.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2019
Rights https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.html
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics