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蓝色致密矮星NGC 2915的暗物质含量

The dark matter content of the blue compact dwarf NGC 2915

E. C. Elson, W. J. G. de Blok, R. C. Kraan-Korteweg

摘要:

NGC 2915是一颗邻近的蓝致密矮星,具有晚型螺旋的HI特性。它的大而旋转的HI盘(延伸到R ~ 22 B波段尺度长度)和外部HI盘中明显缺乏恒星,使其成为暗物质研究的有用候选者。使用澳大利亚望远镜紧凑阵列获得了NGC 2915的新HI合成观测。这些数据与高质量的3.6 $μ$ m成像斯皮策红外附近星系巡天相结合。HI盘的中心区域示出由两个不同的HI浓度与显着的非高斯线轮廓。我们拟合一个倾斜的环模型的HI速度场推导出的旋转曲线。这被用作质量模型的输入,确定恒星和气体盘以及暗物质晕的贡献。银河系几乎在所有半径上都是暗物质主导的。在旋转曲线的最后一个测量点,总质量与蓝光的比率约为太阳的140倍,使NGC 2915成为已知最暗的星系之一。我们表明,恒星盘不能解释观测到的旋转曲线的陡峭上升部分。最适合的暗物质晕是一个伪等温球,其核心密度为$ρ_0\sim 0.17 \pm 0.03$ \msun pc $^{-3}$,核心半径为$r_c\sim 0.9 \pm 0.1$ kpc。

英文摘要:

NGC 2915 is a nearby blue compact dwarf with the HI properties of a late-type spiral. Its large, rotating HI disk (extending out to R ~ 22 B-band scale lengths) and apparent lack of stars in the outer HI disk make it a useful candidate for dark matter studies. New HI synthesis observations of NGC 2915 have been obtained using the Australian Telescope Compact Array. These data are combined with high-quality 3.6 $μ$m imaging from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey. The central regions of the HI disk are shown to consist of two distinct HI concentrations with significantly non-Gaussian line profiles. We fit a tilted ring model to the HI velocity field to derive a rotation curve. This is used as input for mass models that determine the contributions from the stellar and gas disks as well as the dark matter halo. The galaxy is dark-matter-dominated at nearly all radii. At the last measured point of the rotation curve, the total mass to blue light ratio is ~ 140 times solar, making NGC 2915 one of the darkest galaxies known. We show that the stellar disk cannot account for the steeply-rising portion of the observed rotation curve. The best-fitting dark matter halo is a pseudo-isothermal sphere with a core density $ρ_0\sim 0.17 \pm 0.03$ \msun pc$^{-3}$ and a core radius $r_c\sim 0.9 \pm 0.1$ kpc.

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