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遥远狮子座II矮球状星系的恒星运动学--墙上的另一块砖

Stellar kinematics in the remote Leo II dwarf spheroidal galaxy -- Another brick in the wall

A. Koch, J. T. Kleyna, M. I. Wilkinson, E. K. Grebel, G. F. Gilmore, N. W. Evans, R. F. G. Wyse, D. R. Harbeck

摘要:

我们提出了远程(d= 233 kpc)银河矮球状(dSph)星系狮子座II的预计速度色散分布,基于171离散恒星径向速度,从中分辨率光谱使用FLAMES/GIRAFFE摄谱仪在欧洲南方天文台,智利。在我们探测到该星系恒星边界的数据的整个径向范围内,具有良好成员概率的恒星的色散轮廓基本上是平坦的,振幅为6.6 ± 0.7 km/s。我们没有发现任何明显的旋转或速度不对称的证据,这表明潮汐效应不能用来解释狮子座II的属性。从基本的质量模型出发,利用金斯方程,我们推导出了极限半径为(2.7+-0.5)10^7兆太阳的质量和27-45太阳单位的全球质量与光的比率,这取决于采用的总光度。核心晕配置文件和温和的切向速度各向异性量被发现占以及狮子座II的观察到的运动学,虽然我们不能排除的可能性,一个尖状晕径向变化的速度各向异性。总而言之,这个星系表现出的暗物质特性似乎与银河系的其他dSph卫星一致,即晕质量分布与中央核心一致,总质量与其他dSph中常见的质量尺度相似。

英文摘要:

We present the projected velocity dispersion profile for the remote (d=233kpc) Galactic dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy Leo II, based on 171 discrete stellar radial velocities that were obtained from medium-resolution spectroscopy using the FLAMES/GIRAFFE spectrograph at the European Southern Observatory, Chile. The dispersion profile of those stars with good membership probabilities is essentially flat with an amplitude of 6.6+-0.7 km/s over the full radial extent of our data, which probe to the stellar boundary of this galaxy. We find no evidence of any significant apparent rotation or velocity asymmetry which suggests that tidal effects cannot be invoked to explain Leo II's properties. From basic mass modeling, employing Jeans' equation, we derive a mass out to the limiting radius of (2.7+-0.5) 10^7 Msun and a global mass to light ratio of 27-45 in solar units, depending on the adopted total luminosity. A cored halo profile and a mild amount of tangential velocity anisotropy is found to account well for Leo II's observed kinematics, although we cannot exclude the possibility of a cusped halo with radially varying velocity anisotropy. All in all, this galaxy exhibits dark matter properties which appear to be concordant with the other dSph satellites of the Milky Way, namely a halo mass profile which is consistent with a central core and a total mass which is similar to the common mass scale seen in other dSphs.

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