Microlensing and Galactic Structure
Because we know little about the Galactic force-field away from the plane, the Galactic mass distribution is very ill-determined. I show that a microlensing survey of galaxies closer than 50 Mpc would enable us to map in three dimensions the Galactic density of stellar mass, which should be strictly...
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| description | Because we know little about the Galactic force-field away from the plane, the Galactic mass distribution is very ill-determined. I show that a microlensing survey of galaxies closer than 50 Mpc would enable us to map in three dimensions the Galactic density of stellar mass, which should be strictly less than the total mass density. A lower limit can be placed on the stellar mass needed at R |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:69bab480-6165-43be-88d1-65e28caea2992022-03-26T18:52:50ZMicrolensing and Galactic StructureJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:69bab480-6165-43be-88d1-65e28caea299Symplectic Elements at Oxford2000Binney, JBecause we know little about the Galactic force-field away from the plane, the Galactic mass distribution is very ill-determined. I show that a microlensing survey of galaxies closer than 50 Mpc would enable us to map in three dimensions the Galactic density of stellar mass, which should be strictly less than the total mass density. A lower limit can be placed on the stellar mass needed at R |
| spellingShingle | Binney, J Microlensing and Galactic Structure |
| title | Microlensing and Galactic Structure |
| title_full | Microlensing and Galactic Structure |
| title_fullStr | Microlensing and Galactic Structure |
| title_full_unstemmed | Microlensing and Galactic Structure |
| title_short | Microlensing and Galactic Structure |
| title_sort | microlensing and galactic structure |
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