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Spiral galaxies are studied using a simple global disc model as a means for approximate determination of mass profiles. Based on rotation curves and the amount of gas (HI+He), we find global surface mass densities consistent with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-04-26 Joanna Jałocha , Łukasz Bratek , Marek Kutschera , Piotr Skindzier

While galaxy rotation curves provide one of the most powerful methods for measuring dark matter profiles in the inner regions of rotation-supported galaxies, at the dwarf scale there are factors that can complicate this analysis. Given the…

Dark matter has been a long-standing and important issue in physics, but direct evidence of its existence is lacking. This work aims to elucidate the mystery and show that the dark matter hypothesis is unnecessary. We can nicely reproduce…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-07 Jau Tang , Qiang Tang

Two well studied dwarf galaxies -- NGC 3109 and NGC 6822 -- present some of the strongest observational support for a flat core at the center of galactic dark matter (DM) halos. We use detailed cosmologically motivated numerical models to…

With the release of Gaia DR3, we extend the comparison between dynamical models for the Milky Way rotation curve initiated in the previous work. Utilising astrometric and spectro-photometric data for 719143 young disc stars within $|z|<1$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-10 William Beordo , Mariateresa Crosta , Mario Gilberto Lattanzi

After explaining the motivation for this article, I briefly recapitulate the methods used to determine, somewhat coarsely, the rotation curves of our Milky Way Galaxy and other spiral galaxies, especially in their outer parts, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-25 Dilip G. Banhatti

The circular velocity curve traced by stars provides a direct means of investigating the potential and mass distribution of the Milky Way. Recent measurements of the Galaxy's rotation curve have revealed a significant decrease in velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-26 Francesco Sylos Labini

I consider the observed rotation curves of 12 gas-dominated low-surface-brightness galaxies -- objects in which the mass of gas ranges between 2.2 and 27 times the mass of the stellar disk (mean=9.4). This means that, in the usual…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 R. H. Sanders

We present high-accuracy rotation curves, which show a steep nuclear rise and high-velocity central rotation, followed by a broad maximum in the disk and flat part. We use the rotation curves to directly calculate the radial distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiaki Sofue

Rotation curves of dark-matter-dominated galaxies measure the mass profiles of galactic halos and thereby test theories of their cosmological origin. While attention has focused lately on the possible discrepancy at small galactocentric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Ilian T. Iliev , Paul R. Shapiro

We use the rotation curves of more than 100 disk galaxies to examine whether the structure of their surrounding dark halos is consistent with the universal density profile proposed by Navarro, Frenk & White (NFW profiles). Rotation curve…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julio F. Navarro

A mysterious dark matter is supposed to exist in the galactic halos. In this contrast, we discuss the possibility of explaining the flat rotational velocity curves in f(R) gravity by solving field equations numerically in vacuum and for…

General Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Muhammad Usman

We extend our general relativistic analysis of galactic rotation curves with galaxies NGC 2841, NGC 2903 and NGC 5033. As before, we employ the solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity with an expansion in Bessel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 J. D. Carrick , F. I. Cooperstock

We use the IllustrisTNG cosmological hydrodynamical simulation to study the rotation curves of galaxies in the local universe. To do that, we first select the galaxies with 9.4 $<$ $\log{(M_\mathrm{star}/M_\odot)}$ $<$ 11.5 to make a sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Daeun Jeong , Ho Seong Hwang , Haeun Chung , Yongmin Yoon

I provide a model rotation curve for the Milky Way that matches the details of the terminal velocity curve normalized to the Galactocentric distance $R_0 = 8.122$ kpc obtained by the GRAVITY collaboration and the corresponding circular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-29 Stacy McGaugh

We analyse maps of the spatially-resolved nebular emission of $\approx$1500 star-forming galaxies at $z\approx0.6$-$2.2$ from deep KMOS and MUSE observations to measure the average shape of their rotation curves. We use these to test claims…

Three three-component (bulge, disk, halo) model Galactic gravitational potentials differing by the expression for the dark matter halo are considered. The central (bulge) and disk components are described by the Miyamoto-Nagai expressions.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-25 A. T. Bajkova , V. V. Bobylev

We tested whether refracted gravity, a theory of modified gravity that describes the dynamics of galaxies without the aid of dark matter, can model the dynamics of the three massive elliptical galaxies, NGC 1407, NGC 4486, and NGC 5846, out…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 Valentina Cesare , Antonaldo Diaferio , Titos Matsakos

We review the~current status of the~study of rotation curve (RC) of the~Milky Way, and~present a~unified RC from the~Galactic Center to the galacto-centric distance of about 100 kpc. The~RC is used to directly calculate the~distribution of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-30 Yoshiaki Sofue

This paper is devoted to solve the galactic rotation problem for ESO138-G014 galaxy based on two theories: dark matter and Modified Newtonian Dynamics. Here we did the rotation curve analysis with two possible choices for the dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-07-02 Norsiah Hashim , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Zamri Zainal Abidin , Paolo Salucci