We recently published velocity measurements of luminous globular clusters in the galaxy NGC1052-DF2, concluding that it lies far off the canonical stellar mass - halo mass relation. Here we present a revised velocity for one of the globular clusters, GC-98, and a revised velocity dispersion measurement for the galaxy. We find that the intrinsic dispersion σ=5.6−3.8+5.2 km/s using Approximate Bayesian Computation, or σ=7.8−2.2+5.2 km/s using the likelihood. The expected dispersion from the stars alone is ~7 km/s. Responding to a request from the Editors of ApJ Letters and RNAAS, we also briefly comment on the recent analysis of our measurements by Martin et al. (2018).
@article{arxiv.1806.04685,
title = {A Revised Velocity for the Globular Cluster GC-98 in the Ultra Diffuse Galaxy NGC1052-DF2},
author = {Pieter van Dokkum and Yotam Cohen and Shany Danieli and Aaron Romanowsky and Roberto Abraham and Jean Brodie and Charlie Conroy and J. M. Diederik Kruijssen and Deborah Lokhorst and Allison Merritt and Lamiya Mowla and Jielai Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.04685},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Published in the Research Notes of the AAS. 2 pages, 1 figure