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Radial acceleration relation of galaxies with joint kinematic and weak-lensing data

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2024-04-10 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We combine kinematic and gravitational lensing data to construct the Radial Acceleration Relation (RAR) of galaxies over a large dynamic range. We improve on previous weak-lensing studies in two ways. First, we compute stellar masses using the same stellar population model as for the kinematic data. Second, we introduce a new method for converting excess surface density profiles to radial accelerations. This method is based on a new deprojection formula which is exact, computationally efficient, and gives smaller systematic uncertainties than previous methods. We find that the RAR inferred from weak-lensing data smoothly continues that inferred from kinematic data by about 2.5dex2.5\,\mathrm{dex} in acceleration. Contrary to previous studies, we find that early- and late-type galaxies lie on the same joint RAR when a sufficiently strict isolation criterion is adopted and their stellar and gas masses are estimated consistently with the kinematic RAR.

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@article{arxiv.2310.15248,
  title  = {Radial acceleration relation of galaxies with joint kinematic and weak-lensing data},
  author = {Tobias Mistele and Stacy McGaugh and Federico Lelli and James Schombert and Pengfei Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.15248},
  year   = {2024}
}

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41 pages, 16 figures, published version