Fig. 1.
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Initial positions of point masses in our simulation (blue dots), plotted over the synthetic MW image, based on the works of Gaspari et al. (2024) and Chrimes et al. (2021), as described in the main text. The figure contains 500 of the 104 simulated point masses. The Sun symbol represents the Solar System, at R⊙ = 8.122 kpc and z⊙ = 20.8 pc.
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