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| DOI | 10.1088/2041-8205/724/1/L122 | ||||
| Año | 2010 | ||||
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We estimated the dynamical surface mass density (S) at the solar Galactocentric distance between 2 and 4 kpc from the Galactic plane, as inferred from the observed kinematics of the thick disk. We find S(z = 2 kpc) = 57.6 +/- 5.8 M-circle dot pc(-2), and it shows only a tiny increase in the z range considered by our investigation. We compared our results with the expectations for the visible mass, adopting the most recent estimates in the literature for contributions of the Galactic stellar disk and interstellar medium, and proposed models of the dark matter distribution. Our results match the expectation for the visible mass alone, never differing from it by more than 0.8 M-circle dot pc-2 at any z, and thus we find little evidence for any dark component. We assume that the dark halo could be undetectable with our method, but the dark disk, recently proposed as a natural expectation of the Lambda CDM models, should be detected. Given the good agreement with the visible mass alone, models including a dark disk are less likely, but within errors its existence cannot be excluded. In any case, these results put constraints on its properties: thinner models (scale height lower than 4 kpc) reconcile better with our results and, for any scale height, the lower-density models are preferred. We believe that successfully predicting the stellar thick disk properties and a dark disk in agreement with our observations could be a challenging theoretical task.
| Ord. | Autor | Género | Institución - País |
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| 1 | MONI-BIDIN, Christian Moni | Hombre |
Universidad de Concepción - Chile
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| 2 | Carraro, Giovanni | Hombre |
ESO - Chile
European Southern Observatory Santiago - Chile Observatorio Europeo Austral - Chile |
| 3 | MENDEZ-BUSSARD, RENE ALEJANDRO | Hombre |
Universidad de Chile - Chile
Centro de Excelencia en Astrofísica y Tecnologías Afines - Chile |
| 4 | van Altena, W. F. | Hombre |
YALE UNIV - Estados Unidos
Yale University - Estados Unidos |
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| US National Science Foundation |
| Yale University |
| Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina |
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| Chilean Centro de Astrofisica FONDAP |
| Yale University/Universidad de Chile |
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| The authors are grateful to V. Korchagin for his assistance. C. M. B. acknowledges the Chilean Centro de Excelencia en Astrofisica y Tecnologias Afines (CATA), D. Geisler for his reading of the manuscript, and F. Mauro for useful discussions. R. A. M. acknowledges support by the Chilean Centro de Astrofisica FONDAP (No. 15010003), FONDECYT (No. 1070312), and by CATA (PFB-06). All authors acknowledge partial support from the Yale University/Universidad de Chile collaboration. The SPM3 catalog was funded in part by grants from the US National Science Foundation, Yale University, and the Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina. |