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

Authors: 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

arXiv: 2411.15062v1 - DOI (astro-ph.GA)
17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to A&A
License: CC ZERO 1.0

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.

Submitted to arXiv on 22 Nov. 2024

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