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Galactic masers and the Milky Way circular velocity

Bovy, Jo, Hogg, David W., Rix, Hans-Walter

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Masers found in massive star-forming regions can be located precisely in six-dimensional phase space and therefore serve as a tool for studying Milky Way dynamics.

The non-random orbital phases at which the masers are found and the sparseness of current samples require modeling.
Here we model the phase-space distribution function of 18 precisely measured Galactic masers, permitting a mean velocity offset and a general velocity dispersion tensor relative to their local standards of rest, and accounting for different pieces of prior information.
With priors only on the Sun's distance from the Galactic Center and on its motion with respect to the local standard of rest, the maser data provide a weak constraint on the circular velocity at the Sun of V_c = 246 +/- 30 km/s.

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