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低质量盘状星系中的暗物质分布。I.使用Palomar宇宙网成像仪的H $α$观测

The Dark Matter Distributions in Low-Mass Disk Galaxies. I. H$α$ Observations Using the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager

Nicole C. Relatores, Andrew B. Newman, Joshua D. Simon, Richard Ellis, Phuongmai Truong, Leo Blitz, Alberto Bolatto, Christopher Martin, Patrick Morrissey

摘要:

仅暗物质的模拟预测,暗物质晕具有尖状的内部密度分布,而对低质量星系的观测发现了一系列通常要浅得多的内部斜坡。这种差异是否可以用重子反馈来解释,或者是否需要修改后的暗物质模型来解释,目前还没有很好的确定。为了更好地了解矮星系中暗物质分布的多样性,我们使用Palomar宇宙网络成像仪对30 Mpc以内的26个低质量星系($\log M_*/\textrm{M}_\odot = 8.4-9.8$,$v_{\rm max} = 50-140$ km s $^{-1}$)进行了调查,这是其类型中最大的积分场光谱调查之一。在本文中,我们推导出H $α$速度场的典型空间分辨率为$\sim$ 160 pc的全样本。我们提取旋转曲线,并验证其鲁棒性的分析中的几个选择。提出了一种提高窄带H $α$图像切片光谱仪速度精度的方法。对于11个星系,我们比较的H $α$速度场CO运动学测量使用CARMA,发现地图是在很好的协议。差异的标准偏差通常为$\sim$ 7 km s $^{-1}$,与星际介质中的湍流水平相当,这表明两种示踪剂具有基本相同的体运动学。在另一篇配套论文中,我们将使用这里产生的旋转曲线来构建星系的质量模型,并确定它们的暗物质密度分布。

英文摘要:

Dark-matter-only simulations predict that dark matter halos have cusp-like inner density profiles, while observations of low-mass galaxies have found a range of inner slopes that are typically much shallower. It is still not well established whether this discrepancy can be explained by baryonic feedback or if it may require modified dark matter models. To better understand the diversity of dark matter profiles in dwarf galaxies, we undertook a survey of 26 low-mass galaxies ($\log M_*/\textrm{M}_\odot = 8.4-9.8$, $v_{\rm max} = 50-140$ km s$^{-1}$) within 30 Mpc using the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager, which is among the largest integral field spectroscopic surveys of its type. In this paper, we derive H$α$ velocity fields for the full sample with a typical spatial resolution of $\sim$160 pc. We extract rotation curves and verify their robustness to several choices in the analysis. We present a method for improving the velocity precision obtained from image slicing spectrographs using narrowband H$α$ images. For 11 galaxies, we compare the H$α$ velocity fields to CO kinematics measured using CARMA, finding the maps to be in good agreement. The standard deviation of the difference is typically $\sim$7 km s$^{-1}$, comparable to the level of turbulence in the interstellar medium, showing that the two tracers have substantially the same bulk kinematics. In a companion paper, we will use the rotation curves produced here to construct mass models of the galaxies and determine their dark matter density profiles.

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