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SMHASH telecon 03/2015

SMHASH telecon 03/2015

Adrian Price-Whelan

March 11, 2015
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  1. ⌧ub K unbinding time leading/trailing tail M mass today any

    parametrization per star progenitor potential (l, b, d, µl, µb, vr) (l, b, d, µl, µb, vr) marginalize out WE’RE HOSED Rewinder Price-Whelan et al. (2014)
  2. −100 −50 0 50 X [kpc] −100 −50 0 X

    [kpc] x “Data”: Price-Whelan et al. (2014) 8 “RR Lyrae” stars Gaia velocity errors 2% distance errors + Progenitor, same errors
  3. Nparams / 6Nstars Good: Bad: - test particle orbits (no

    N-body) - arbitrary potentials - observational uncertainties / missing data - less sensitive to observational biases
  4. Next Marginalize true phase-space positions of the stars Marginal likelihood

    has fixed dimensionality set by potential params., progenitor params Price-Whelan et al. (in prep.)