Rediscovering the Milky Way with orbit superposition approach and APOGEE data I. Method validation

Author(s)
Sergey Khoperskov, Glenn van de Ven, Matthias Steinmetz, Bridget Ratcliffe, Ivan Minchev, Davor Krajnovic, Misha Haywood, Paola Di Matteo, Nikolay Kacharov, Léa Marques, Marica Valentini, Roelof S. de Jong
Abstract

We introduce a novel orbit superposition method designed to reconstruct the stellar density structure, kinematics, and chemical abundance distribution of the entire Milky Way by leveraging 6D phase-space information from its resolved stellar populations, limited by the spatial coverage of APOGEE DR17.

Organisation(s)
Department of Astrophysics
Journal
Astronomy & Astrophysics
ISSN
0004-6361
Publication date
11-2024
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
Keywords
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/5d59cecc-47a5-49fa-b0d8-bffc15d04124