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Charting the Galactic acceleration field II. A global mass model of the Milky Way from the STREAMFINDER Atlas of Stellar Streams detected in Gaia DR3
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We present an atlas and follow-up spectroscopic observations of 87 thin stream-like structures detected with the STREAMFINDER algorithm in Gaia DR3, of which 29 are new discoveries. Here we focus on using these streams to refine mass models of the Galaxy. Fits with a double power law halo with the outer power law slope set to $-\beta_h=3$ yield an inner power law slope $-\gamma_h=0.97^{+0.17}_{-0.21}$, a scale radius of $r_{0, h}=14.7^{+4.7}_{-1.0}$ kpc, a halo density flattening $q_{m, h}=0.75\pm0.03$, and a local dark matter density of $\rho_{h, \odot}=0.0114\pm0.0007 {\rm M_\odot pc^{-3}}$. Freeing $\beta$ yields $\beta=2.53^{+0.42}_{-0.16}$, but this value is heavily influenced by our chosen virial mass limit. The stellar disks are found to have a combined mass of $4.20^{+0.44}_{-0.53}\times10^{10} {\rm M_\odot}$, with the thick disk contributing $12.4\pm0.7$\% to the local stellar surface density. The scale length of the thin and thick disks are $2.17^{+0.18}_{-0.08}$ kpc and $1.62^{+0.72}_{-0.13}$ kpc, respectively, while their scale heights are $0.347^{+0.007}_{-0.010}$ kpc and $0.86^{+0.03}_{-0.02}$ kpc, respectively. The virial mass of the favored model is $M_{200}=1.09^{+0.19}_{-0.14}\times 10^{12} {\rm M_\odot}$, while the mass inside of 50 kpc is $M_{R<50}=0.46\pm0.03\times 10^{12} {\rm M_\odot}$. We introduce the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) into the derived potential models, and fit the "Orphan" stream therein, finding a mass for the LMC that is consistent with recent estimates. Some highlights of the atlas include the nearby trailing arm of $\omega$-Cen, and a nearby very metal-poor stream that was once a satellite of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. Finally, we unambiguously detect a hot component around the GD-1 stream, consistent with it having been tidally pre-processed within its own DM subhalo.
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