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2013MNRAS.428.3478L - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 428, 3478-3486 (2013/February-1)

Made-to-measure galaxy models - III. Modelling with Milky Way observations.

LONG R.J., MAO S., SHEN J. and WANG Y.

Abstract (from CDS):

We demonstrate how the Syer and Tremaine made-to-measure method of stellar dynamical modelling can be adapted to model a rotating galactic bar. We validate our made-to-measure changes using observations constructed from the existing Shen et al. N-body model of the Milky Way bar, together with kinematic observations of the Milky Way bulge and bar taken by the Bulge Radial Velocity Assay. Our results for a combined determination of the bar angle and bar pattern speed (~30° and ~40kms-1kpc-1) are consistent with those determined by the N-body model. Whilst the made-to-measure techniques we have developed are applied using a particular N-body model and observational data set, they are in fact general and could be applied to other Milky Way modelling scenarios utilizing different N-body models and data sets. Additionally, we use the exercise as a vehicle for illustrating how N-body and made-to-measure methods might be combined into a more effective method.

Abstract Copyright: © 2012 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2012)

Journal keyword(s): methods: numerical - Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics - Galaxy: structure

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