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Galactic mass modeling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

J. Einasto
J. Einasto*
Affiliation:
Tartu Astrophysical Observatory

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Galactic mass modeling has a long history. The first mass models were designed to represent the galactic attraction force in the radial direction. Considerable progress in galactic mass modeling was made during the fifties when Kuzmin (1952) introduced nonhomogeneous ellipsoids and Schmidt (1956) used a number of ellipsoids to represent various galactic populations. Further progress in galactic mass modeling has followed with the improvement of the system of the galactic constants and with the improvement of our knowledge of the structure of the galactic populations, in particular with the discovery of a massive corona around the Galaxy. In this report we present a new mass model of the Galaxy. It has been constructed using the most recent data available. A preliminary version of this model has been discussed earlier by Einasto, Jôeveer and Kaasik (1976).

Type
VIII. THE SPHEROIDAL COMPONENT
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 84: The Large-Scale Characteristics of the Galaxy , 1979 , pp. 451 - 460
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1979 

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