The RAVE Survey: Constraining the Local Galactic Escape Speed

We report new constraints on the local escape speed of our Galaxy. Our analysis is based on a sample of high velocity stars from the RAVE survey and two previously published datasets. We use cosmological simulations of disk galaxy formation to motivate our assumptions on the shape of the velocity di...

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Main Authors:	Smith, M, Ruchti, G, Helmi, A, Wyse, R, Fulbright, J, Freeman, K, Navarro, J, Seabroke, G, Steinmetz, M, Williams, M, Bienayme, O, Binney, J, Bland-Hawthorn, J, Dehnen, W, Gibson, B, Gilmore, G, Grebel, E, Munari, U, Parker, Q, Scholz, R, Siebert, A, Watson, F, Zwitter, T
Format:	Journal article
Language:	English
Published:	2006

The RAVE Survey: Constraining the Local Galactic Escape Speed

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