Lecture 20: Dynamics of the solar neighborhood

Reading:

Binney and Tremaine, 4.4.3, 4.8.2, 4.9.3
Binney and Merrifield, 10.3

Optional reading:

The Oort limit:

Creze, M., et al. 1998, AA 329, 920
Holmberg, J., and Flynn, C. 2000, MNRAS 313, 209
Holmberg, J., & Flynn, C. 2004, MNRAS 352, 440

The velocity distribution function and the asymmetric drift:

Dehnen, W., and Binney, J. J. 1998, MNRAS 298, 387 - kinematics of the solar neighborhood using Hipparcos data

Dehnen, W. 1998, AJ 115, 2384 - the velocity-space distribution of stars in the solar neighborhood

Cuddeford, P., and Binney, J. 1994, MNRAS 266, 273 - a discussion of the shape of the velocity ellipsoid and the limitations of epicycle theory

Other subjects:

The effects of non-axisymmetry on the dynamics of the solar neighborhood are discussed by:
Blitz, L., and Spergel, D. N. 1991, ApJ 370, 205
Kuijken, K., and Tremaine, S. 1994, ApJ 421, 178

Two of the advocates for maximum-disk models are:
Sackett, P. D. 1997, ApJ 483, 103
Sellwood, J. A. 1999, in Galaxy Dynamics, eds. D. Merritt, J. A. Sellwood, and M. Valluri (San Francisco: ASP), 351 (also astro-ph/9903184)