Kinematics of the outer stellar halo
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- 1 August 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Vol. 281 (3) , 1027-1032
- https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/281.3.1027
Abstract
We test whether the simple model for the kinematics of the Galactic stellar halo (in particular the outer halo) proposed by Sommer-Larsen, Flynn & Christensen (SLFC) is physically realizable, by directly integrating particles in a three-dimensional model of the Galactic potential. We are able to show that the SLFC solution can be realized in terms of a distribution of particles with stationary statistical properties in phase space. Hence the SLFC model, which shows a notable change in the anisotropy from markedly radial at the Sun to markedly tangential beyond about Galactocentric radius r=20 kpc, seems a tenable description of outer halo kinematics.Keywords
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