We present the internal kinematics of UCD3, the brightest known ultra-compact dwarf galaxy (UCD) in the Fornax cluster, making this the first UCD with spatially resolved spectroscopy. Our study is based on seeing-limited observations obtained with the ARGUS Integral Field Unit of the VLT/FLAMES spectrograph under excellent seeing conditions (0.5 - 0.67 arcsec FWHM). The velocity field of UCD3 shows the signature of weak rotation, comparable to that found in massive globular clusters. Its velocity dispersion profile is fully consistent with an isotropic velocity distribution and the assumption that mass follows the light distribution obtained from Hubble Space Telescope imaging. In particular, there is no evidence for the presence of an extended dark matter halo contributing a significant (>~33 per cent within R < 200 pc) mass fraction, nor for a central black hole more massive than ~5 per cent of the UCD's mass. While this result does not exclude a galaxian origin for UCD3, we conclude that its internal kinematics are fully consistent with it being a massive star cluster.
TDCOSMO XXIV. First spatially resolved kinematics of the lens galaxy obtained using JWST-NIRSpec to improve time-delay cosmography
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago(芝加哥大学卡弗里宇宙物理学研究所);Center for Astronomy, Space Science and Astrophysics, Independent University, Bangladesh(孟加拉独立大学天文学、空间科学与天体物理中心);Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles(加州大学洛杉矶分校物理与天文系);Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Physics Department(慕尼黑工业大学自然科学院物理系);Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics(马克斯·普朗克天体物理学研究所);Space Telescope Science Institute(太空望远镜科学研究所);Sub-Department of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford(牛津大学物理系天体物理子部门)
TDCOSMO XXIX: JWST/NIRSpec IFU Spatially Resolved Kinematics of Three Time-delay Lenses
University of California, Los Angeles(加州大学洛杉矶分校);University of Chicago(芝加哥大学);Independent University, Bangladesh(孟加拉独立大学);University of Oxford(牛津大学);Space Telescope Science Institute(太空望远镜科学研究所);Stony Brook University(石溪大学);Tohoku University(东北大学)
The stellar velocity anisotropy of strong lensing massive elliptical galaxies and its role in the inference of the Hubble parameter $H_0$ using spatially resolved kinematics
American Museum of Natural History(美国自然历史博物馆);The Graduate Center of the City University of New York(纽约市立大学研究生中心);Lehman College of the CUNY(纽约市立大学雷曼学院);Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York(纽约市立大学曼哈顿社区学院)
Semi-analytic Inference of Satellite Densities in the Cold Dark Matter Model Part I. Comparison to Ultra-faint Dwarf Kinematics
Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Berkeley(加州大学伯克利分校莱因韦伯理论物理研究所);Theoretical Physics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory(劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室理论物理组);Department of Physics, Princeton University(普林斯顿大学物理系);Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California - Irvine(加州大学尔湾分校物理与天文学系);Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute(平顿研究所计算天体物理学中心)
TDCOSMO XXX: Spatially resolved kinematics of the deflectors in time-delay lens systems B1608+656 and SDSSJ1206+4332 from JWST-NIRSpec observation
University of California, Los Angeles(加州大学洛杉矶分校);University of Chicago(芝加哥大学);Independent University, Bangladesh(孟加拉独立大学);University of Oxford(牛津大学);Technical University of Munich(慕尼黑工业大学);Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics(马克斯·普朗克天体物理学研究所)