The halo stars on highly radial orbits should inevitably pass the center regions of the Milky Way, although they are hard to be detected from the crowded bulge/bar. Under the assumption that the stell...
Astrometry opened the era of modern astronomy/physics and plays a crucial role in contemporary astronomy, including the measurement of the three-dimensional structure of the Milky Way, black hole dete...
Much of the lensing effects in astrophysics can be adequately described using geometric optics, where light from a point source can be split into multiple magnified images. In coherent sources, such ...
The theory of General Relativity has successfully passed a large number of observational tests. The theory has been extensively tested in the weak-field regime with experiments in the Solar System and...
A major uncertainty in the determination of the mass profile of the Milky Way using stellar kinematics is the poorly determined anisotropy parameter, beta = 1 - ( ( (sigma_theta)**2 + (sigma_phi)**2 )...