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Milky Way卫星的运动学:质量估计、旋转极限和固有运动

Kinematics of Milky Way Satellites: Mass Estimates, Rotation Limits, and Proper Motions

Louis E. Strigari

摘要:

在过去的几年里,来自银河系卫星星系的高分辨率运动学数据集已经证实了早期的迹象,这些系统是暗物质占主导地位的对象。要进一步了解这些星系所揭示的宇宙学和暗物质的小尺度结构,在很大程度上依赖于对其内部运动学的更详细的解释。本文讨论了一个可能的形式主义,提取重要的数量从运动学数据,包括幅度的旋转,自行,和质量分布。在最简单的模型上的旋转振幅的投影误差示出为$\sim 0.5 $公里秒$^{-1}$与$\sim 10^3$恒星从经典或超微弱的卫星。对玉夫座星系的旋转信号进行了分析,没有发现明显的旋转检测,并给出了这个结果的限制,推导出玉夫座自行。模型选择的标准进行了讨论,确定所需的参数来描述的暗物质晕密度分布和恒星速度各向异性。应用到四个数据集的速度范围很广,被发现的可能性是更敏感的变化比速度各向异性的变化的暗物质密度分布的斜率。具有可变径向速度各向异性的模型被证明是优选的相对于那些在该数量是恒定的,在所有半径的星系。

英文摘要:

In the past several years high resolution kinematic data sets from Milky Way satellite galaxies have confirmed earlier indications that these systems are dark matter dominated objects. Further understanding of what these galaxies reveal about cosmology and the small scale structure of dark matter relies in large part on a more detailed interpretation of their internal kinematics. This article discusses a likelihood formalism that extracts important quantities from the kinematic data, including the amplitude of rotation, proper motion, and the mass distribution. In the simplest model the projected error on the rotational amplitude is shown to be $\sim 0.5 $ km s$^{-1}$ with $\sim 10^3$ stars from either classical or ultra-faint satellites. The galaxy Sculptor is analyzed for the presence of a rotational signal; no significant detection of rotation is found, and given this result limits are derived on the Sculptor proper motion. A criteria for model selection is discussed that determines the parameters required to describe the dark matter halo density profiles and the stellar velocity anisotropy. Applied to four data sets with a wide range of velocities, the likelihood is found to be more sensitive to variations in the slope of the dark matter density profile than variations in the velocity anisotropy. Models with variable radial velocity anisotropy are shown to be preferred relative to those in which this quantity is constant at all radii in the galaxy.

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