Massive disk galaxies with high surface brightness plus low surface brightness stellar disks, hosted by massive dark matter halo -- a TNG50 simulation study
Abstract
We study massive disk galaxies (total stellar mass ) from IllustrisTNG50 simulation, and perform 2-D structural decomposition of the galaxies using their idealised, synthetic SDSS images for z=0. We find an interesting sample of galaxies having a central high surface brightness (HSB) stellar disk, surrounded by an extended low surface brightness (LSB) stellar disk, similar to giant LSB galaxies. These massive, double-exponential disk galaxies are found to be hosted by dark matter haloes of in agreement to observations of such galaxies. Their maximum rotation velocity, an approximate measure of their dynamical mass, lies within (300-500) km/s. The stellar-to-dark matter mass ratio and the baryon-to-dark matter mass ratio of the sample lies in the range of (0.04 - 0.46) and (0.07 - 0.47) respectively. Our results show that cosmological simulations are able to form disc galaxies with HSB plus LSB disks, as in observations.
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@article{arxiv.2602.09773,
title = {Massive disk galaxies with high surface brightness plus low surface brightness stellar disks, hosted by massive dark matter halo -- a TNG50 simulation study},
author = {Suchira Sarkar and Kanak Saha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.09773},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
This was accepted for publication in the International Astronomical Union Proceedings Series ( IAU General Assembly, August- 2024, Cape Town, South Africa)