Comment on "Evidence for dark matter in the inner Milky Way"

Stacy McGaugh; Federico Lelli; Marcel Pawlowski; Garry Angus; Olivier Bienaymé; Joss Bland-Hawthorn; Erwin de Blok; Benoit Famaey; Filippo Fraternali; Ken Freeman; Gianfranco Gentile; Rodrigo Ibata; Pavel Kroupa; Fabian Lüghausen; Paul McMillan; David Merritt; Ivan Minchev; Giacomo Monari; Elena D'Onghia; Alice Quillen; Bob Sanders; Jerry Sellwood; Arnaud Siebert; Hongsheng Zhao

Comment on "Evidence for dark matter in the inner Milky Way"

Stacy McGaugh, Federico Lelli, Marcel Pawlowski, Garry Angus, Olivier Bienaymé, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Erwin de Blok, Benoit Famaey, Filippo Fraternali, Ken Freeman, Gianfranco Gentile, Rodrigo Ibata, Pavel Kroupa, Fabian Lüghausen, Paul McMillan, David Merritt, Ivan Minchev, Giacomo Monari, Elena D'Onghia, Alice QuillenBob Sanders, Jerry Sellwood, Arnaud Siebert, Hongsheng Zhao

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Abstract

This is a brief rebuttal to arXiv:1502.03821, which claims to provide the first observational proof of dark matter interior to the solar circle. We point out that this result is not new, and can be traced back at least a quarter century.

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Journal	ArXiv e-prints
Publication status	Published - 26 Mar 2015

Keywords

astro-ph.GA
hep-ex
hep-ph

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07813v2

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McGaugh, S., Lelli, F., Pawlowski, M., Angus, G., Bienaymé, O., Bland-Hawthorn, J., de Blok, E., Famaey, B., Fraternali, F., Freeman, K., Gentile, G., Ibata, R., Kroupa, P., Lüghausen, F., McMillan, P., Merritt, D., Minchev, I., Monari, G., D'Onghia, E., ... Zhao, H. (2015). Comment on "Evidence for dark matter in the inner Milky Way". ArXiv e-prints. https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07813v2

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AU - Bland-Hawthorn, Joss

AU - de Blok, Erwin

AU - Famaey, Benoit

AU - Fraternali, Filippo

AU - Freeman, Ken

AU - Gentile, Gianfranco

AU - Ibata, Rodrigo

AU - Kroupa, Pavel

AU - Lüghausen, Fabian

AU - McMillan, Paul

AU - Merritt, David

AU - Minchev, Ivan

AU - Monari, Giacomo

AU - D'Onghia, Elena

AU - Quillen, Alice

AU - Sanders, Bob

AU - Sellwood, Jerry

AU - Siebert, Arnaud

AU - Zhao, Hongsheng

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