The mass of our Milky Way
WenTing Wang, JiaXin Han, Marius Cautun, ZhaoZhou Li, Miho N. Ishigaki
Topics & Concepts
Milky WayPhysicsGlobular clusterLocal GroupGalaxyAstrophysicsAstronomySatellite galaxyVirial massGalaxy rotation curveHaloGalactic haloProper motionSatelliteMass distributionRange (aeronautics)Rotation (mathematics)Galactic CenterGalactic tideGravitational potentialDwarf galaxy problemVirial theoremVelocity dispersionAstrometryRadial velocityStellar, planetary, and galactic studiesAstronomy and Astrophysical ResearchScientific Research and Discoveries