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تسجيل مستخدم جديدBayes versus the virial theorem: inferring the potential of a galaxy from a kinematical snapshot
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John Magorrian
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We present a new framework for estimating a galaxys gravitational potential, Phi(x), from its stellar kinematics by adopting a fully non-parametric model for the galaxys unknown action-space distribution function, f(J). Having an expression for the joint likelihood of Phi and f, the likelihood of Phi is calculated by using a Dirichlet process mixture to represent the prior on f and marginalising. We demonstrate that modelling machinery constructed using this framework is successful at recovering the potentials of some simple systems from perfect discrete kinematical data, a situation handled effortlessly by traditional moment-based methods, such as the virial theorem, but in which other, more modern, methods are less than satisfactory. We show how to generalise the machinery to account for realistic observational errors and selection functions. A practical implementation is likely to raise some interesting algorithmic and computational challenges.
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