Speaker
Maddie Lucey
Description
Knowing the length of the Milky Way's bar is crucial for correctly accounting for the non-axisymmetric effects in dynamical analysis. However, the mass distribution of the inner Galaxy is poorly constrained, including the length of the Galactic bar. In this talk, I will present a novel method for constraining the length of the Galactic bar using 6D phase-space information to directly integrate orbits. I then apply this method to APOGEE and Gaia data to measure the Galactic bar's length.
