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用DEIMOS绘制暗面:NGC 1407星系群中的球状星团、X射线气体和暗物质

Mapping the Dark Side with DEIMOS: Globular Clusters, X-ray Gas, and Dark Matter in the NGC 1407 Group

Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jay Strader, Lee R. Spitler, Ria Johnson, Jean P. Brodie, Duncan A. Forbes, Trevor Ponman

摘要:

NGC 1407是附近一个演化星系群的中央椭圆星系,显然注定要成为星系团的核心。我们使用球状星团的运动学来探测集团中心的动力学和质量分布,达到60 kpc(~10 R_eff)-迄今为止最广泛的数据集围绕早期类型的星系。该样本包括172个GC速度,其中大多数是使用Keck/DEIMOS新获得的,还有一些被确定为DGTO或IGCs的其他物体。我们发现弱旋转GC系统的外部部分,与贫金属和富金属GC错位。RMS速度剖面迅速下降到~20 kpc的半径,然后变得平坦或上升到~60 kpc。有证据表明,GC轨道有一个切向的偏见,是最强的金属贫GC-可能矛盾的理论预期。我们构建了宇宙学驱动的星系+暗晕动力学模型,并推断出一个典型的LCDM晕的质量在60 kpc内为~ 3 × 10^12 M_Sun,外推到维里质量为~ 6 × 10^13 M_Sun--与星系群运动学的结果一致。我们提出了一个独立的Chandra为基础的分析,其相对较高的质量在~20 kpc不同意强烈与GC为基础的结果,除非GC被假定有一个特殊的轨道分布,我们讨论了X射线和光学结果之间的一些一般比较。该集团的B波段质量与光的比例约为800,即使对于一个丰富的星系团来说也是极端的,更不用说一个贫穷的集团了-将其置于宇宙中最主要的暗物质系统之列,并且还表明除了非重子暗物质之外,还有大量重子潜伏在一个看不见的阶段。我们比较了NGC 1407群的运动学和质量性质与附近的其他群和集群,并讨论了这个系统的结构形成的一些影响。

英文摘要:

NGC 1407 is the central elliptical in a nearby evolved galaxy group apparently destined to become a cluster core. We use the kinematics of globular clusters to probe the dynamics and mass profile of the group's center, out to 60 kpc (~10 R_eff) -- the most extended data set to date around an early-type galaxy. This sample consists of 172 GC velocities, most of them newly obtained using Keck/DEIMOS, with a few additional objects identified as DGTOs or as IGCs. We find weak rotation in the GC system's outer parts, with the metal-poor and metal-rich GCs misaligned. The RMS velocity profile declines rapidly to a radius of ~20 kpc, and then becomes flat or rising to ~60 kpc. There is evidence that the GC orbits have a tangential bias that is strongest for the metal-poor GCs -- possibly contradicting theoretical expectations. We construct cosmologically-motivated galaxy+dark halo dynamical models and infer a mass within 60 kpc of ~3x10^12 M_Sun, extrapolating to a virial mass of ~6x10^13 M_Sun for a typical LCDM halo -- in agreement with results from group galaxy kinematics. We present an independent Chandra-based analysis, whose relatively high mass at ~20 kpc disagrees strongly with the GC-based result unless the GCs are assumed to have a peculiar orbit distribution, and we discuss some general comparisons between X-ray and optical results. The group's B-band mass-to-light ratio of ~800 is extreme even for a rich galaxy cluster, much less a poor group -- placing it among the most dark matter dominated systems in the universe, and also suggesting a massive reservoir of baryons lurking in an unseen phase, in addition to the nonbaryonic dark matter. We compare the kinematical and mass properties of the NGC 1407 group to other nearby groups and clusters, and discuss some implications of this system for structure formation.

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