Milky Way Mass with K Giants and BHB Stars Using LAMOST, SDSS/SEGUE, and Gaia: 3D Spherical Jeans Equation and Tracer Mass Estimator

Sarah A. Bird, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Chao Liu +8

We measure the enclosed Milky Way mass profile to Galactocentric distances of $\sim 70$ and $\sim 50$ kpc using the smooth, diffuse stellar halo samples of Bird et al. The samples ar…