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Gas kinematics from spectroscopy with a wide slit: detecting nuclear black holes
Witold Maciejewski, James Binney
Motivated by STIS observations of more than 50 nearby galactic nuclei, we consider long-slit emission-line spectra when the slit is wider than the instrumental PSF, and the target…
Secular Evolution of the Galactic Disk
James Binney
In the solar-neighbourhood, older stars have larger random velocities than younger ones. It is argued that the increase in velocity dispersion with time is predominantly a gradual…
Supernovae and the IGM
James Binney
An energetic argument implies that a galaxy like the Milky Way is blowing a powerful wind that carries away most of the heavy elements currently synthesized and has impacted the IG…
Dynamics of the Galaxy's Satellites
James Binney
The Milky Way's satellites provide unique information about the density of the Galactic halo at large radii. The inclusion of even a few rather inaccurate proper motions resolves a…
Microlensing and Galactic Structure
James Binney
Because we know little about the Galactic force-field away from the plane, the Galactic mass distribution is very ill-determined. I show that a microlensing survey of galaxies clos…
Accretion by Galaxies
J. J. Binney
Both theory and observation indicate that galaxies like the Milky Way accrete matter at the rate of a few Msun per year.