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Dark Matter Near the Sun: Simulated Star Counts and the Oort Limit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

David Gilden  and
John N. Bahcall
David Gilden
Affiliation:
The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
John N. Bahcall
Affiliation:
The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540

Abstract

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An ensemble of orbits passing through the solar position have been generated for a specific mass model of the galaxy. These orbits are randomly sampled to form simulated density distributions of tracer stars perpendicular to the galactic disk. The simulated distributions are analyzed in order to determine the sampling errors in a self-consistent derivation of the total amount of matter near the sun (the Oort limit).

Type
Theoretical Models
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 81: Local Interstellar Medium , 1984 , pp. 326 - 329
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1984

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