Dark matter measurements combining stellar and HI kinematics: 30% 1βˆ’Οƒ1-\sigma outliers with low dark matter content at 5Re5R_\mathrm{e}

Abstract

We construct the Schwarzschild dynamical models for 11 early-type galaxies with the SAURON and Mitchell stellar IFUs out to 2βˆ’4Re2-4 R_\mathrm{e}, and construct dynamical models with combined stellar and HI kinematics for a subsample of 4 galaxies with HI velocity fields out to 10Re10 R_\mathrm{e} obtained from the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, thus robustly obtaining the dark matter content out to large radii for these galaxies. Adopting a generalised-NFW dark matter profile, we measure an NFW-like density cusp in the dark matter inner slopes for all sample galaxies, with a mean value of 1.00Β±0.041.00\pm0.04 (rms scatter 0.150.15). The mean dark matter fraction for the sample is 0.20.2 within 1Re1 R_\mathrm{e}, and increases to 0.40.4 at 2Re2 R_\mathrm{e}, and 0.60.6 at 5Re5 R_\mathrm{e}. The dark matter fractions within 1Re1 R_\mathrm{e} of these galaxies are systematically lower than the predictions of both the TNG-100 and EAGLE simulations. For the dark matter fractions within 2Re2 R_\mathrm{e} and 5Re5 R_\mathrm{e}, 40% and 70% galaxies are 1βˆ’Οƒ1-\sigma consistent with either the TNG-100 or the EAGLE predictions, while the remaining 60% and 30% galaxies lie below the 1βˆ’Οƒ1-\sigma region. Combined with 36 galaxies with dark matter fractions measured out to 5Re5 R_\mathrm{e} in the literature, about 10% of these 47 galaxies lie below the 3βˆ’Οƒ3-\sigma region of the TNG-100 or EAGLE predictions.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures, accepted by MNRA

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