Cuspy Dark-Matter Haloes and the Galaxy

The microlensing optical depth to Baade's Window constrains the minimum total mass in baryonic matter within the Solar circle to be greater than 3.9 x 10^{10} solar masses, assuming the inner Galaxy is barred with viewing angle of roughly 20 degrees. From the kinematics of solar neighbourhood s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Binney, J, Evans, N
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2001