Fast Estimation of Orbital Parameters in Milky Way-like Potentials
Fast Estimation of Orbital Parameters in Milky Way-like Potentials
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类银河系势轨道参数的快速估计
DOI:
10.1088/1538-3873/aadcdd
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发表时间:
2018
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3.5
通讯作者:
Mackereth J
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作者:
Mackereth J
Orbital parameters, such as eccentricity and maximum vertical excursion, of stars in the Milky Way are an important tool for understanding its dynamics and evolution, but calculation of such parameters usually relies on computationally expensive numerical orbit integration. We present and test a fast method for estimating these parameters using an application of the Stäckel fudge, used previously for the estimation of action-angle variables. We show that the method is highly accurate, to a level of< 1% in eccentricity, over a large range of relevant orbits and in different Milky Way-like potentials, and demonstrate its validity by estimating the eccentricity distribution of the RAVE-TGAS data set and comparing it with that from orbit integration. Using this method, the orbital characteristics of the∼ 7 million Gaia DR2 stars with radial velocity measurements are computed with Monte Carlo sampled errors in∼ 116 hours of parallelized cpu time, at a speed that we estimate to be∼ 3 to 4 orders of magnitude faster than using numerical orbit integration. We demonstrate using this catalog that Gaia DR2 samples a large range of orbits in the solar vicinity, down to those with r ap≲ 2.5 kpc, and out to r peri≳ 13 kpc. We also show that many of the features present in orbital parameter space have a low mean z max, suggesting that they likely result from disk dynamical effects.
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2012
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作者:
J. Sanders
通讯作者:
J. Sanders
DOI:
10.1086/166416
发表时间:
1988
期刊:
The Astrophysical Journal
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作者:
H. Dejonghe;T. Zeeuw
通讯作者:
T. Zeeuw