On the local dark matter density

摘要

Context. In 2012, we applied a three-dimensional formulation to kinematic measurements of the Galactic thick disk and derived a surprisingly low dark matter density at the solar position. This result was challenged by Bovy Tremaine (2012, ApJ, 756, 89), who claimed that the observational data are consistent with the expected local dark matter density if a one-dimensional approach is adopted.