13 research outputs found
Accurate determination of the mass distribution in spiral galaxies
High resolution Fabry-Perot data of six spiral galaxies are presented. Those data extend the previous sample of spiral galaxies studied with high resolution 3D spectroscopy to earlier morphological types. All the galaxies in the sample have available H I data at 21 cm from the VLA or Westerbork. Velocity fields are analyzed and Hα rotation curves are computed and compared to H I curves. The kinematics of NGC 5055 central regions are looked at more closely. Its peculiar kinematics can be interpreted either as a bipolar outflow or as a counter-rotating disk, possibly hosting a 9 ±2 x 10^8 M_⊙ compact object. Most of the Hα rotation curves present a significantly steeper inner slope than their H I counterparts. The 21 cm data thus seems affected by moderate to strong beam smearing. The beam smearing has an effect at higher scale-length/beam-width than previously thought (up to 20 km s^(-1) at a ratio of 8.5)
Accurate determination of the mass distribution in spiral galaxies III. Fabry-Perot imaging spectroscopy of 6 spiral galaxies
High resolution Fabry-Perot data of six spiral galaxies are presented. Those
data extend the previous sample of spiral galaxies studied with high resolution
3D spectroscopy to earlier morphological types. All the galaxies in the sample
have available HI data at 21 cm from the VLA or Westerbork. Velocity fields are
analyzed and Halpha rotation curves are computed and compared to HI curves. The
kinematics of NGC 5055 central regions are looked at more closely. Its peculiar
kinematics can be interpreted either as a bipolar outflow or as a
counter-rotating disk, possibly hosting a 9 pm 2 10^8 Msol compact object. Most
of the Halpha rotation curves present a significantly steeper inner slope than
their HI counterparts. The 21 cm data thus seems affected by moderate to strong
beam smearing. The beam smearing has an effect at higher
scale-length/beam-width than previously thought (up to 20 km/s at a ratio of
8.5).Comment: Full resolution images available on NASA AD
Improved 3D Fabry-Perot Data Reduction Techniques
Improved data reduction techniques for 3D data cubes obtained from
Fabry-Perot integral field spectroscopy are presented. They provide accurate
sky emission subtraction and adaptive spatial binning and smoothing. They help
avoiding the effect analogous to the beam smearing, seen in HI radio data, when
strong smoothing is applied to 3D data in order to get the most extended signal
coverage. The data reduction techniques presented in this paper allow one to
get the best of both worlds: high spatial resolution in high signal-to-noise
regions and large spatial coverage in low signal-to-noise regions.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA
GHASP : an H alpha kinematic survey of spiral and irregular galaxies. V. Dark matter distribution in 36 nearby spiral galaxies
The results obtained from a study of the mass distribution of 36 spiral
galaxies are presented. The galaxies were observed using Fabry-Perot
interferometry as part of the GHASP survey. The main aim of obtaining high
resolution H alpha 2D velocity fields is to define more accurately the rising
part of the rotation curves which should allow to better constrain the
parameters of the mass distribution. The H alpha velocities were combined with
low resolution HI data from the literature, when available. Combining the
kinematical data with photometric data, mass models were derived from these
rotation curves using two different functional forms for the halo: an
isothermal sphere and an NFW profile. For the galaxies already modeled by other
authors, the results tend to agree. Our results point at the existence of a
constant density core in the center of the dark matter halos rather than a
cuspy core, whatever the type of the galaxy from Sab to Im. This extends to all
types the result already obtained by other authors studying dwarf and LSB
galaxies but would necessitate a larger sample of galaxies to conclude more
strongly. Whatever model is used (ISO or NFW), small core radius halos have
higher central densities, again for all morphological types. We confirm
different halo scaling laws, such as the correlations between the core radius
and the central density of the halo with the absolute magnitude of a galaxy:
low luminosity galaxies have small core radius and high central density. We
find that the product of the central density with the core radius of the dark
matter halo is nearly constant, whatever the model and whatever the absolute
magnitude of the galaxy. This suggests that the halo surface density is
independent from the galaxy type.Comment: 21 pages, 14 figures. MNRAS (accepted october 3rd 2007
Stellar polytropes and Navarro-Frenk-White halo models: comparison with observations
Motivated by the possible conflict between the Navarro-Frenk-White(NFW) model
predictions for the dark matter contents of galactic systems and its
correlation with baryonic surface density, we will explore an alternative
paradigm for the description of dark matter halos. Such an alternative emerges
from Tsallis' non-extensive thermodynamics applied to self-gravitating systems
and leads to the so-called ``stellar polytrope'' (SP) model. We consider that
this could be a better approach to real structures rather than the isothermal
model, given the fact that the first one takes into account the non-extensivity
of energy and entropy present in these type of systems characterized by
long-range interactions. We compare a halo based on the Navarro-Frenk-White
(NFW) and one which follows the SP description. Analyzing the dark matter
contents estimated by means of global physical parameters of galactic disks,
obtained from a sample of actual galaxies, with the ones of the unobserved dark
matter halos, we conclude that the SP model is favored over the NFW model in
such a comparison.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in the Journal of
Cosmology and Astroparticle Physic
The Mass Distribution and Rotation Curve in the Galaxy
The mass distribution in the Galaxy is determined by dynamical and
photometric methods. Rotation curves are the major tool for determining the
dynamical mass distribution in the Milky Way and spiral galaxies. The
photometric (statistical) method utilizes luminosity profiles from optical and
infrared observations, and assumes empirical values of the mass-to-luminosity
(M/L) ratio to convert the luminosity to mass. In this chapter the dynamical
method is described in detail, and rotation curves and mass distribution in the
Milky Way and nearby spiral galaxies are presented. The dynamical method is
categorized into two methods: the decomposition method and direct method. The
former fits the rotation curve by calculated curve assuming several mass
components such as a bulge, disk and halo, and adjust the dynamical parameters
of each component. Explanations are given of the mass profiles as the de
Vaucouleurs law, exponential disk, and dark halo profiles inferred from
numerical simulations. Another method is the direct method, with which the mass
distribution can be directly calculated from the data of rotation velocities
without employing any mass models. Some results from both methods are
presented, and the Galactic structure is discussed in terms of the mass.
Rotation curves and mass distributions in external galaxies are also discussed,
and the fundamental mass structures are shown to be universal.Comment: 54 pages, 25 figures, in 'Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems',
Springer, Vol. 5, ed. G. Gilmore, Chap. 19. Note: Preprint with full figures
is available from http://www.ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~sofue/htdocs/2013psss