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船底座、天炉座、玉夫座和六分仪座矮球状星系的质量和速度各向异性

The mass and velocity anisotropy of the Carina, Fornax, Sculptor and Sextans dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Ewa L. Lokas

摘要:

我们模拟的大型运动学数据集的四个银河系矮椭球(dSph)卫星:船底座,天炉座,雕刻和六分仪,最近发表的沃克等人。成员星的选择使用一个可靠的动力学的闯入者去除计划的模拟数据进行测试。我们的成员选择比基于金属丰度指标的成员选择更具限制性,因为它不仅消除了银河系恒星的污染,还消除了潮汐尾中未束缚的恒星。我们通过将Jeans方程的解调整到投影速度色散和峰度的轮廓来对清洁的数据集进行建模。这些数据很好地再现了模型,质量遵循光和最适合的恒星轨道是各向同性弱切向,预期从潮汐搅拌的情况。天炉座矮星拥有超过2400颗成员星,是迄今为止最精确测定质量的dSph星系:其速度矩采样误差的1 sigma误差低于5%。六分仪的质光比为97个太阳单位,似乎是四个dSph星系中最主要的暗物质。

英文摘要:

We model the large kinematic data sets for the four Milky Way dwarf spheroidal (dSph) satellites: Carina, Fornax, Sculptor and Sextans, recently published by Walker et al. The member stars are selected using a reliable dynamical interloper removal scheme tested on simulated data. Our member selection is more restrictive than the one based on metallicity indicators as it removes not only contamination due to Milky Way stars but also the unbound stars from the tidal tails. We model the cleaned data sets by adjusting the solutions of the Jeans equations to the profiles of the projected velocity dispersion and kurtosis. The data are well reproduced by models where mass follows light and the best-fitting stellar orbits are isotropic to weakly tangential, as expected from the tidal stirring scenario. The Fornax dwarf, with more than 2400 member stars, is a dSph galaxy with the most accurately determined mass to date: its 1 sigma error following from the sampling errors of the velocity moments is below 5 percent. With mass-to-light ratio of 97 solar units, Sextans seems to be the most dark matter dominated of the four dSph galaxies.

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