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GHASP:螺旋星系和不规则星系的H α运动学巡天。V. 36个邻近螺旋星系中的暗物质分布

GHASP : an H alpha kinematic survey of spiral and irregular galaxies. V. Dark matter distribution in 36 nearby spiral galaxies

M. Spano, M. Marcelin, P. Amram, C. Carignan, B. Epinat, O. Hernandez

摘要:

本文介绍了对36个旋涡星系质量分布的研究结果。作为GHASP巡天的一部分,使用法布里-珀罗干涉测量法对星系进行了观测。获得高分辨率H α 2D速度场的主要目的是更准确地定义旋转曲线的上升部分,这应该允许更好地约束质量分布的参数。当可用时,将H α速度与文献中的低分辨率HI数据相结合。结合运动学数据与光度数据,质量模型来自这些旋转曲线,使用两种不同的功能形式的晕:等温球和NFW配置文件。对于其他作者已经模拟的星系,结果往往是一致的。我们的研究结果指出,无论从Sab到Im的星系类型如何,在暗物质晕的中心都存在一个恒定密度的核心,而不是一个尖形核心。这扩展到所有类型的结果已经获得了其他作者研究矮星系和LSB星系,但将需要更大的星系样本更有力的结论。无论使用什么模型(ISO或NFW),小核半径晕具有更高的中心密度,同样适用于所有形态类型。我们证实了不同的晕标度律,如晕核半径和中心密度与星系绝对星等的相关性:低光度星系具有小的核半径和高的中心密度。我们发现,无论星系的模型和绝对大小如何,暗物质晕的中心密度与核心半径的乘积几乎是恒定的。这表明晕面密度与星系类型无关。

英文摘要:

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.

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