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astro-ph.GA2015★ 64 cited
The distribution function of the Galaxy's dark halo
James Binney, Tilmann Piffl
Starting from the hypothesis that the Galaxy's dark halo responded adiabatically to the infall of baryons, we have constructed a self-consistent dynamical model of the Galaxy that…
astro-ph.GA2015★ 46 cited
Bringing the Galaxy's dark halo to life
T. Piffl, Z. Penoyre, J. Binney
We present a new method to construct fully self-consistent equilibrium models of multi-component disc galaxies similar to the Milky Way. We define distribution functions for the st…