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用AAOmega检验牛顿引力:四个球状星团的质光分布

Testing Newtonian Gravity with AAOmega: Mass-to-Light Profiles of Four Globular Clusters

Richard R. Lane, László L. Kiss, Geraint F. Lewis, Rodrigo A. Ibata, Arnaud Siebert, Timothy R. Bedding, Péter Székely

摘要:

在弱加速度状态下检验牛顿引力对我们理解引力相互作用的本质至关重要。最近有人声称,几个球状星团的速度色散曲线在大半径处变平,让人想起星系的旋转曲线,尽管球状星团被认为含有很少或没有暗物质。我们利用AAOmega对四个球状星团,即M22,M30,M53和M68的观测研究了这一说法。M30是一个这样的星团,它的速度分散度被认为是这样的,它被包括在内是为了与以前的研究进行比较。我们没有发现任何我们的目标集群在大半径的速度色散的统计显着平坦,因此我们推断所观察到的动力学不需要球状星团的暗物质为主,或重力的修改。此外,通过应用一个简单的动力学模型,我们确定每个集群的径向质量光分布。还测量了每个星团的等温旋转,在不确定性范围内,M22表现出明显的旋转,M68可能旋转,M30和M53没有任何旋转。

英文摘要:

Testing Newtonian gravity in the weak-acceleration regime is vital to our understanding of the nature of the gravitational interaction. It has recently been claimed that the velocity dispersion profiles of several globular clusters flatten out at large radii, reminiscent of galaxy rotation curves, even though globular clusters are thought to contain little or no dark matter. We investigate this claim, using AAOmega observations of four globular clusters, namely M22, M30, M53 and M68. M30, one such cluster that has had this claim made for its velocity dispersion, was included for comparison with previous studies. We find no statistically significant flattening of the velocity dispersion at large radii for any of our target clusters and therefore we infer the observed dynamics do not require that globular clusters are dark matter dominated, or a modification of gravity. Furthermore, by applying a simple dynamical model we determine the radial mass-to-light profiles for each cluster. The isothermal rotations of each cluster are also measured, with M22 exhibiting clear rotation, M68 possible rotation and M30 and M53 lacking any rotation, within the uncertainties.

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