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Massive disk galaxies with high surface brightness plus low surface brightness stellar disks, hosted by massive dark matter halo -- a TNG50 simulation study

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2026-02-11 v1

Abstract

We study massive disk galaxies (total stellar mass>=1011>=10^{11} M\mathrm{M_{\odot}}) 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 1012M\sim 10^{12} \mathrm{M_{\odot}} in agreement to observations of such galaxies. Their maximum rotation velocity, an approximate measure of their dynamical mass, lies within \sim (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 \sim (0.04 - 0.46) and \sim (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)