2015/07/28 by Paul J. McMillan, McMillan, Paul J.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph.GA
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1507.07889
5 pages, published in the proceedings of the GREAT-ITN conference on "The Milky Way Unravelled by Gaia", Barcelona, December 2014
arxiv created 2015/07/28 · arxiv updated 2015/07/29
A brief review of recent work. I describe dynamical modelling of the Milky Way using action-angle coordinates. I explain what action-angle coordinates are, and what progress has been made in the past few years to ensuring they can be used in reasonably realistic Galactic potentials. I then describe recent modelling efforts, and progress they have made in constraining the potential of the Milky Way and the local dark matter density.