Modeling complete distributions with incomplete observations: The velocity ellipsoid from Hipparcos data

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 629, Issue 1 I, 2005, Pages 268-275

  Hoog, David W ^a   Blanton, Michael R ^a   Roweis, Sam T ^b   Johnston, Kathryn V ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: fundamental parameters; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Methods: statistical; Solar neighborhood; Stars: kinematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 28144438143     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/431572     Document Type: Article

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