A statistical method for measuring the galactic potential and testing gravity with cold tidal streams

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 760, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Peñarrubia, Jorge ^a,b   Koposov, Sergey E ^b,c   Walker, Matthew G ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

dark matter; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxy: structure; methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868233225     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/2     Document Type: Article

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