A Self-Consistent Jeans Analysis of the Milky Way Rotation Curve

arXiv:2609.30364 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-28

Code: https://github.com/dfm/emcee

Terminology

• Milky Way — 13× in this paper
• Consistency — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Local Group — 1× in this paper
• Pairwise Comparisons — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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