View Towards the Center of Our Galaxy with Rotation Curve Tracers (IMAGE)

Technical University of Munich (TUM)

View Towards the Center of Our Galaxy with Rotation Curve Tracers

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The image displays the rotation curve tracers used in the publication over a photograph of the disc of the Milky Way as seen from the Southern Hemisphere. The tracers are colour-coded in blue or red according to their relative motion with respect to the Sun. The spherically symmetric blue halo illustrates the dark matter distribution inferred from the analysis.

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Background photo: Serge Brunier / NASA

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