Maximal Halos in High-Luminosity Spiral Galaxies
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We test the halo dominated mass model, recently proposed for high-luminosity galaxies by Courteau & Rix (1998), against rotation velocity data for a large sample of L_* spirals. We find that this model does not reproduce the general kinematic properties required. The alternative disc dominated model, on the contrary, easily fits the data.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9903432,
title = {Maximal Halos in High-Luminosity Spiral Galaxies},
author = {P. Salucci and M. Persic},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9903432},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures; A&A, in press