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Limits on the local dark matter density
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Limits on the local dark matter density

S Garbari, J I Read and G Lake
2012

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Institute for Computational Science Physics
We study the systematic problems in determining the local dark matter density ρdm(Rsun) from kinematics of stars in the Solar Neighbourhood, using a simulated Milky Way-like galaxy. We introduce a new unbiased method for recovering ρdm(Rsun) based on the moments of the Jeans equations, combined with a Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) technique and apply it to real data [1].

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