arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 0906.0341astro-ph.COastro-ph.GA
收藏

矮椭球星系的普遍质量分布?

A Universal Mass Profile for Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies?

Matthew G. Walker, Mario Mateo, Edward W. Olszewski, Jorge Peñarrubia, N. Wyn Evans, Gerard Gilmore

摘要:

我们应用Jeans方程来估计八个最亮的dSph星系的质量。对于天炉座,我们得到了一个与模型无关的最大圆速度约束,Vmax=18 - 3 ^+5 km/s。虽然我们只得到了Vmax > 10 km/s的下限为其余的dSphs,我们发现,在所有情况下,在投影半光半径的封闭质量是很好的约束和鲁棒性,以广泛的晕模型和速度各向异性。我们推导出一个简单的解析公式,估计M(rhalf)准确地从完整的牛仔裤分析的结果。将这个公式应用于局部群dSphs的整个总体,我们证明了一个相关性,使得M(rhalf)\propto rhalf^{1.4 \pm 0.4},或者根据半光半径内部的平均密度,<rho>\propto rhalf^{-1.6 \pm 0.4}。这种关系是由dSph数据表现出全球速度色散和半光半径之间的相关性这一事实驱动的。我们认为,潮汐力不太可能引入这种关系,但潮汐可能增加了分散和/或改变了斜率。虽然数据很好地描述了质量分布范围超过一个因素的归一化(Vmax ~ 10-20公里/秒),我们认为所有的dSphs嵌入在一个“普遍的”暗物质晕的假设。我们发现除了幂律M \propto r^{1.4}外,可行的候选者还包括一个Vmax ~ 15 km/s,尺度半径r_0 ~ 800 pc的尖形“NFW”晕,以及一个Vmax ~ 13 km/s,r_0 ~ 150 pc的核晕。最后,假设它们测量的速度色散准确地反映了它们的质量,最小的dSph现在允许我们在几十pc的半径上解析dSph密度。在这些小尺度上,我们发现平均密度高达&lt;ρ&gt; ~ 5 Msun/pc^3(200 GeV/cm^3)。

英文摘要:

(abridged) We apply the Jeans equation to estimate masses for eight of the brightest dSph galaxies. For Fornax we obtain a model-independent constraint on the maximum-circular velocity, Vmax=18_{-3}^{+5} km/s. Although we obtain only lower-limits of Vmax > 10 km/s for the remaining dSphs, we find that in all cases the enclosed mass at the projected half-light radius is well constrained and robust to a wide range of halo models and velocity anisotropies. We derive a simple analytic formula that estimates M(rhalf) accurately with respect to results from the full Jeans analysis. Applying this formula to the entire population of Local Group dSphs, we demonstrate a correlation such that M(rhalf)\propto rhalf^{1.4\pm 0.4}, or in terms of the mean density interior to the half-light radius, <rho> \propto rhalf^{-1.6\pm 0.4}. This relation is driven by the fact that the dSph data exhibit a correlation between global velocity dispersion and half-light radius. We argue that tidal forces are unlikely to have introduced this relation, but tides may have increased the scatter and/or altered the slope. While the data are well described by mass profiles ranging over a factor of < 2 in normalization (Vmax ~ 10-20 km/s), we consider the hypothesis that all dSphs are embedded within a "universal" dark matter halo. We show that in addition to the power law M\propto r^{1.4}, viable candidates include a cuspy "NFW" halo with Vmax ~ 15 km/s and scale radius r_0 ~ 800 pc, as well as a cored halo with Vmax ~ 13 km/s and r_0 ~ 150 pc. Finally, assuming that their measured velocity dispersions accurately reflect their masses, the smallest dSphs now allow us to resolve dSph densities at radii as small as a few tens of pc. At these small scales we find mean densities as large as <ρ> ~ 5 Msun/pc^3 (200 GeV/cm^3).

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑