Abstract

The rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way out to \~100kpc has been constructed using \~16,000 primary red clump giants (PRCGs) in the outer disk selected from the LSS-GAC and the SDSS-III/APOGEE survey, combined with \~5700 halo K giants (HKGs) selected from the SDSS/SEGUE survey. To derive the RC, the PRCG sample of the warm disc population (with a radial velocity dispersion \$\sigma\_R 25\$-\$35\$ km/s) and the HKG sample of the halo stellar population are respectively analyzed using a kinematical model allowing for the asymmetric drift corrections and with the spherical Jeans equation. The typical uncertainties of RC, including both random and systematic errors, derived from the PRCG and HKG samples are respectively 5-7 km/s and several tens km/s. We determine a circular velocity at the solar position, \$V\_c (R\_0) = 240 6\$ km/s and an azimuthal peculiar speed of the Sun, \$V\_= 12.1 7.6\$ km/s, both in good agreement with the previous determinations. The newly constructed RC has a generally flat value of 240 km/s within a Galactocentric distance r of 25 kpc and then decreases steadily to 150 km/s at r\~100 kpc. On top of this overall trend, the RC exhibits two prominent localized dips, one at r\~11 kpc and another at r\~19 kpc. The dips could be explained by assuming the existence of two massive (dark) matter rings in the Galactic plane. From the newly constructed RC, combined with other data, we have built a parametrized mass model for the Galaxy, yielding a virial mass of the Milky Way's dark matter halo of \$0.90^+0.07\_-0.08 10^12\$ \$M\_ødot\$, a concentration parameter \$c = 18.06^+1.26\_-0.90\$ and a total disc mass of \$4.32^+0.39\_-0.20 10^10 M\_ødot\$. The model yields a local dark matter density, \$\rho\_ødot, dm = 0.32^+0.02\_-0.02\$ GeV cm\$^-3\$, which again agrees well with the previous determinations.

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