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Bayes versus the virial theorem: inferring the potential of a galaxy from a kinematical snapshot
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We present a new framework for estimating a galaxy's gravitational potential, φ, from its stellar kinematics by adopting a fully non-parametric model for the galaxy's unknown actionspace distribution function, f ( J). Having an expression for the joint likelihood of φ and f, the likelihood of φ is calculated by using a Dirichlet process mixture to represent the prior on f and marginalizing. We demonstrate that modelling machinery constructed using this framework is successful at recovering th...
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- Journal:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Volume:
- 437
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 2230-2248
- Publication date:
- 2014-01-01
- DOI:
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1365-2966
- ISSN:
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0035-8711
- Source identifiers:
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395887
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- English
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