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The mass of our Milky Way

Ishigaki, Miho N.; Cautun, Marius; Wang, WenTing +2 more

We perform an extensive review of the numerous studies and methods used to determine the total mass of the Milky Way. We group the various studies into seven broad classes according to their modeling approaches. The classes include: i) estimating Galactic escape velocity using high velocity objects; ii) measuring the rotation curve through termina…