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Making action-angle disc models for Gaia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2015

P.J. McMillan
P.J. McMillan*
Affiliation:
Lund Observatory, Lund University, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Box 43, 22100 Lund, Sweden Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, UK
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Abstract

I describe dynamical modelling of the Milky Way using action-angle coordinates. I explain what action-angle coordinates are, and what progress has been made in the past few years to ensuring they can be used in reasonably realistic Galactic potentials. I then describe recent modelling efforts, and progress they have made in constraining the potential of the Milky Way and the local dark matter density.

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European Astronomical Society Publications Series , Volume 68: The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia: GREAT Science from the Gaia Data Releases , 2014 , pp. 79 - 82
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© EAS, EDP Sciences, 2015

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