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

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.

17 pages, 13 figures, submitted to A&A

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