Rediscovering the Milky Way with an orbit superposition approach and APOGEE data
Open Access
- 25 March 2025
- journal article
- research article
- Published by EDP Sciences in Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Vol. 695, A220
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.Keywords
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