The Circular Velocity Curve of the Milky Way from 5 to 25 kpc using luminous red giant branch star

Abstract

We present a sample of 254,882 luminous red giant branch (LRGB) stars selected from the APOGEE and LAMOST surveys. By combining photometric and astrometric information from the 2MASS and Gaia surveys, the precise distances of the sample stars are determined by a supervised machine learning algorithm: the gradient boosted decision trees. To test the accuracy of the derived distances, member stars of globular clusters (GCs) and open clusters (OCs) are used. The tests by cluster member stars show a precision of about 10 per cent with negligible zero-point offsets, for the derived distances of our sample stars. The final sample covers a large volume of the Galactic disk(s) and halo of $0<R<30$ kpc and $|Z|⩽15$ kpc. The rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way across radius of $5\lesssim R\lesssim 25$ kpc have been accurately measured with $\sim$ 54,000 stars of the thin disk population selected from the LRGB sample. The derived RC shows a weak decline along $R$ with a gradient of $-1.83\pm 0.02$ $(stat.)\pm 0.07$ $(sys.)$ km s${}^{-1}$ kpc${}^{-1}$, in excellent agreement with the results measured by previous studies. The circular velocity at the solar position, yielded by our RC, is $234.04\pm 0.08$ $(stat.)\pm 1.36$ $(sys.)$ km s${}^{-1}$, again in great consistent with other independent determinations. From the newly constructed RC, as well as constraints from other data, we have constructed a mass model for our Galaxy, yielding a mass of the dark matter halo of $M_{200}$ = ($8.05\pm 1.15$)$\times$10${}^{11}{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$ with a corresponding radius of $R_{200}$ = $192.37\pm 9.24$ kpc and a local dark matter density of $0.39\pm 0.03$ GeV cm${}^{-3}$.

16 pages, 13 figures and 5 tables, accepted by ApJ

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