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Orbital decomposition of CALIFA spiral galaxies

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2017-11-29 v1

Abstract

Schwarzschild orbit-based dynamical models are widely used to uncover the internal dynamics of early-type galaxies and globular clusters. Here we present for the first time the Schwarzschild models of late-type galaxies: an SBb galaxy NGC 4210 and an S0 galaxy NGC 6278 from the CALIFA survey. The mass profiles within 2Re2\,R_e are constrained well with 1σ1\sigma statistical error of 10%\sim 10\%. The luminous and dark mass can be disentangled with uncertainties of 20%\sim 20\% and 50%\sim 50\% respectively. From ReR_e to 2Re2\,R_e, the dark matter fraction increases from 14±10%14\pm10\% to 18±10%18\pm10\% for NGC 4210 and from 15±10%15\pm10\% to 30±20%30\pm20\% for NGC 6278. The velocity anisotropy profiles of both σr/σt\sigma_r/\sigma_t and σz/σR\sigma_z/\sigma_R are well constrained. The inferred internal orbital distributions reveal clear substructures. The orbits are naturally separated into three components: a cold component with near circular orbits, a hot component with near radial orbits, and a warm component in between. The photometrically-identified exponential disks are predominantly made up of cold orbits only beyond 1Re\sim 1\,R_e, while they are constructed mainly with the warm orbits inside. Our dynamical hot components are concentrated in the inner regions, similar to the photometrically-identified bulges. The reliability of the results, especially the orbit distribution, are verified by applying the model to mock data.

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@article{arxiv.1709.06649,
  title  = {Orbital decomposition of CALIFA spiral galaxies},
  author = {Ling Zhu and Remco van den Bosch and Glenn van de Ven and Mariya Lyubenova and Jesús Falcón-Barroso and Sharon E. Meidt and Marie Martig and Juntai Shen and Zhao-Yu Li and Akin Yildirim and C. Jakob Walcher and Sebastian F. Sanchez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.06649},
  year   = {2017}
}

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accepted by MNRAS