Essays about: "Toktam Aghajani"

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  1. 1. A comparison of two approaches for estimating local stellar kinematics: The Projection Method versus Maximum Likelihodd

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Astronomi - Genomgår omorganisation; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för astronomi och teoretisk fysik - Genomgår omorganisation

    Author : Toktam Aghajani; [2011]
    Keywords : Physics and Astronomy;

    Abstract : We test a new approach to calculate the mean velocity and velocity dispersion for a sample of nearby stars when their radial velocities are not available. The most commonly used method (here called the projection method, PM) was introduced in a paper by Dehnen & Binney (1998). READ MORE