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盖亚和银河系的动力学

Gaia and the dynamics of the Galaxy

Benoit Famaey

摘要:

盖亚是欧空局一项雄心勃勃的太空任务,它将提供测光和天体测量所需的精度,以产生我们银河系中近10亿颗恒星的运动学普查。这些数据将彻底改变我们对银河系动力学的理解,以及我们对银河系详细引力势和质量分布的了解,包括假定的暗物质成分和非轴对称特征,如旋臂。盖亚任务将通过使用盘和晕恒星星族的运动学信息来帮助回答各种目前尚未解决的问题。在许多其他问题中:外星系的旋转曲线是什么样子的?银河系离轴对称和平衡还有多远?在塑造银河系及其各个组成部分的过程中,等级结构的形成和长期演化各自扮演了什么角色?银河系的性质是否与宇宙学标准模型的预期一致?

英文摘要:

Gaia is an ambitious ESA space mission which will provide photometric and astrometric measurements with the accuracies needed to produce a kinematic census of almost one billion stars in our Galaxy. These data will revolutionize our understanding of the dynamics of the Milky Way, and our knowledge of its detailed gravitational potential and mass distribution, including the putative dark matter component and the non-axisymmetric features such as spiral arms. The Gaia mission will help to answer various currently unsettled questions by using kinematic information on both disk and halo stellar populations. Among many others: what does the rotation curve of the outer Galaxy look like? How far from axisymmetry and equilibrium is the Galaxy? What are the respective roles of hierarchical formation and secular evolution in shaping the Galaxy and its various components? Are the properties of the Galaxy in accordance with expectations from the standard model of cosmology?

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