Search Results for author: Jo Bovy

Found 12 papers, 9 papers with code

On $N$-body simulations of globular cluster stream

no code implementations28 Jan 2021 Nilanjan Banik, Jo Bovy

Stellar tidal streams are sensitive tracers of the properties of the gravitational potential in which they orbit and detailed observations of their density structure can be used to place stringent constraints on fluctuations in the potential caused by, e. g., the expected populations of dark matter subhalos in the standard cold dark matter paradigm (CDM).

Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

A purely acceleration-based measurement of the fundamental Galactic parameters

no code implementations3 Dec 2020 Jo Bovy

Klioner et al. have used the Gaia EDR3 data to directly measure the solar system's acceleration within the Milky Way using the apparent proper motions of quasars.

Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Evidence of a population of dark subhalos from Gaia and Pan-STARRS observations of the GD-1 stream

no code implementations6 Nov 2019 Nilanjan Banik, Jo Bovy, Gianfranco Bertone, Denis Erkal, T. J. L. de Boer

New data from the $\textit{Gaia}$ satellite, when combined with accurate photometry from the Pan-STARRS survey, allow us to accurately estimate the properties of the GD-1 stream.

Astrophysics of Galaxies Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Vertical waves in Gaia DR2

1 code implementation10 Sep 2018 Morgan Bennett, Jo Bovy

The vertical structure and dynamics of stars in our local Galactic neighbourhood contains much information about the local distribution of visible and dark matter and of perturbations to the Milky Way disc.

Astrophysics of Galaxies

Deep learning of multi-element abundances from high-resolution spectroscopic data

3 code implementations13 Aug 2018 Henry W. Leung, Jo Bovy

We determine parameters and abundances for 18 individual elements at the $\approx 0. 03$ dex level, even at low signal-to-noise ratio.

Astrophysics of Galaxies Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Improving \textsl{Gaia} parallax precision with a data-driven model of stars

1 code implementation15 Jun 2017 Lauren Anderson, David W. Hogg, Boris Leistedt, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Jo Bovy

Usually this prior represents beliefs about the stellar density distribution of the Milky Way.

Astrophysics of Galaxies

The chemical homogeneity of open clusters

1 code implementation22 Oct 2015 Jo Bovy

Determining the level of chemical homogeneity in open clusters is of fundamental importance in the study of the evolution of star-forming clouds and that of the Galactic disk.

Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

On Galactic density modeling in the presence of dust extinction

3 code implementations22 Sep 2015 Jo Bovy, Hans-Walter Rix, Gregory M. Green, Edward F. Schlafly, Douglas P. Finkbeiner

This formalism demonstrates that the spatially-complex effect of extinction on the selection function of a pencil-beam or contiguous sky survey is equivalent to a low-pass filtering of the extinction-affected selection function with the smooth density field.

Astrophysics of Galaxies

The stellar population structure of the Galactic disk

1 code implementation18 Sep 2015 Jo Bovy, Hans-Walter Rix, Edward F. Schlafly, David L. Nidever, Jon A. Holtzman, Matthew Shetrone, Timothy C. Beers

We use data on 14, 699 red-clump stars from the APOGEE survey, covering 4 kpc <~ R <~ 15 kpc, to determine the structure of mono-abundance populations (MAPs)---stars in narrow bins in [a/Fe] and [Fe/H]---accounting for the complex effects of the APOGEE selection function and the spatially-variable dust obscuration.

Astrophysics of Galaxies

Data analysis recipes: Fitting a model to data

8 code implementations27 Aug 2010 David W. Hogg, Jo Bovy, Dustin Lang

We go through the many considerations involved in fitting a model to data, using as an example the fit of a straight line to a set of points in a two-dimensional plane.

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

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