References#

References are grouped by their role in an analysis. Cite the methods you use together with the version of JeansPy and its dependencies.

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Jeans equations and axisymmetric dynamics#

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Binney & Tremaine (2008)

Galactic Dynamics

Collisionless dynamics and Jeans equations; 2nd edition, Section 4.8.

van der Marel et al. (1994)

Velocity profiles of galaxies with claimed black holes - II. f(E, Lz) models for M32

Earlier two-integral axisymmetric models and spheroidal potential integrals.

Cappellari (2008)

Measuring the inclination and mass-to-light ratio of axisymmetric galaxies via anisotropic Jeans models of stellar kinematics

Cylindrical alignment and constant meridional anisotropy; general Jeans solution in Section 3.1.1.

Hayashi & Chiba (2012)

Probing non-spherical dark halos in the Galactic dwarf galaxies

Application of semi-isotropic axisymmetric models to dwarf spheroidal galaxies.

Hayashi & Chiba (2015)

Structural properties of non-spherical dark halos in Milky Way and Andromeda dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Dwarf-galaxy modelling with nonzero constant cylindrical anisotropy.

Hayashi et al. (2016)

Dark matter annihilation and decay from non-spherical dark halos in galactic dwarf satellites

Non-spherical dwarf-halo inference and annihilation/decay factors.

Density and anisotropy profiles#

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Plummer (1911)

On the Problem of Distribution in Globular Star Clusters: (Plate 8.)

Plummer tracer profile.

Zhao (1996)

Analytical models for galactic nuclei

Double power-law halo family.

Navarro et al. (1997)

A Universal Density Profile from Hierarchical Clustering

NFW halo profile.

Baes & Van Hese (2007)

Dynamical models with a general anisotropy profile

Flexible spherical anisotropy profiles.

Vitral & Mamon (2020)

A precise analytical approximation for the deprojection of the Sérsic profile

Sersic deprojection approximation.

Vitral & Mamon (2021)

Does NGC 6397 contain an intermediate-mass black hole or a more diffuse inner subcluster?

Extended Sersic deprojection coefficients in Appendix A.

J and D factors#

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Ullio & Valli (2016)

A critical reassessment of particle Dark Matter limits from dwarf satellites

Finite-distance spherical J-factor geometry.

Evans et al. (2016)

Simple J-factors and D-factors for indirect dark matter detection

Analytic J/D-factor results and scaling relations.

Inference and computation#

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Foreman-Mackey et al. (2013)

emcee : The MCMC Hammer

emcee ensemble sampling.

Hoffman & Gelman (2014)

The No-U-Turn Sampler: Adaptively Setting Path Lengths in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

No-U-Turn Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.

Phan et al. (2019)

Composable Effects for Flexible and Accelerated Probabilistic Programming in NumPyro

NumPyro probabilistic programming.

Bradbury et al. (2018)

JAX: composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs

JAX array transformations and automatic differentiation.

Kumar et al. (2019)

ArviZ a unified library for exploratory analysis of Bayesian models in Python

ArviZ posterior analysis.

Vehtari et al. (2021)

Rank-normalization, folding, and localization: An improved R-hat for assessing convergence of MCMC (with Discussion)

Rank-normalized R-hat and effective sample size diagnostics.