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astro-ph.GA2017★ 39 cited
Mapping the Milky Way with LAMOST II: the stellar halo
Yan Xu, Chao Liu, Xiang-Xiang Xue +9
The radial number density and flattening of the Milky Way's stellar halo is measured with metal-poor ([Fe/H]) K giants from LAMOST DR3, using a nonparametric m…
astro-ph.GA2015★ 52 cited
Determining the local dark matter density with LAMOST data
Qiran Xia, Chao Liu, Shude Mao +7
Measurement of the local dark matter density plays an important role in both Galactic dynamics and dark matter direct detection experiments. However, the estimated values from prev…
astro-ph.GA2014★ 13 cited
The velocity distribution in the solar neighbourhood from the LAMOST pilot survey
Qiran Xia, Chao Liu, Yan Xu +5
We use about 15,000 F/G nearby dwarf stars selected from the LAMOST pilot survey to map the U-V velocity distribution in the solar neighbourhood. An extreme deconvolution algorithm…