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We study the total density distribution in the central regions ($<\, 1$ effective radius, $R_{\rm e}$) of early-type galaxies (ETGs), using data from the SPIDER survey. We model each galaxy with two components (dark matter halo + stars),…

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We study trends in the slope of the total mass profiles and dark matter fractions within the central half-light radius of 258 early-type galaxies, using data from the volume-limited ATLAS$^{\mathrm{3D}}$ survey. We use three distinct sets…

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We carry out a systematic investigation of the total mass density profile of massive (Mstar>2e11 Msun) early-type galaxies and its dependence on galactic properties and host halo mass with the aid of a variety of lensing/dynamical data and…

Observations of strong gravitational lensing, stellar kinematics, and larger-scale tracers enable accurate measures of the distribution of dark matter (DM) and baryons in massive early-type galaxies (ETGs). While such techniques have been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-25 Andrew B. Newman , Richard S. Ellis , Tommaso Treu

We present models for the dark and luminous mass structure of 12 strong lensing early-type galaxies (ETGs). We combine pixel-based modelling of multiband HST/ACS imaging with Jeans modelling of kinematics obtained from Keck/ESI spectra to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-06 Lindsay Oldham , Matthew Auger

Early-type galaxies (ETGs) are observed to be more compact, on average, at $z \gtrsim 2$ than at $z\simeq 0$, at fixed stellar mass. Recent observational works suggest that such size evolution could reflect the similar evolution of the host…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Lorenzo Posti , Carlo Nipoti , Massimo Stiavelli , Luca Ciotti

We use stellar masses, photometry, lensing, and velocity dispersions to investigate empirical correlations for the final sample of 73 early-type lens galaxies (ETGs) from the SLACS survey. The traditional correlations (Fundamental Plane…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. W. Auger , T. Treu , A. S. Bolton , R. Gavazzi , L. V. E. Koopmans , P. J. Marshall , L. A. Moustakas , S. Burles

We explore the isothermal total density profiles of early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the IllustrisTNG simulation. For the selected 559 ETGs at $z = 0$ with stellar mass $10^{10.7}\mathrm{M}_{\odot} \leqslant M_{\ast} \leqslant…

We measure the radial profiles of the stellar velocity dispersions, $\sigma(R)$, for 90 early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the MASSIVE survey, a volume-limited integral-field spectroscopic (IFS) galaxy survey targeting all northern-sky ETGs with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Melanie Veale , Chung-Pei Ma , Jenny E. Greene , Jens Thomas , John P. Blakeslee , Jonelle L. Walsh , Jennifer Ito

Recent studies have shown that massive elliptical galaxies have total mass density profiles within an effective radius that can be approximated as \rho_{tot}\propto r^{-\gamma'}, with mean slope <\gamma'>=2.08 \pm 0.03 and scatter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Aaron A. Dutton , Tommaso Treu

Aims: In this work we aim to investigate the late evolution of ETGs, both observationally and theoretically, by focusing on the stellar mass density profile inside a fixed aperture, within $10 ~\rm{kpc}$ from the galaxy center. Methods: We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-18 Rongfu Liu , Alessandro Sonnenfeld , Carlo Nipoti , Rui Li

Given a flurry of recent claims for systematic variations in the stellar initial mass function (IMF), we carry out the first inventory of the observational evidence using different approaches. This includes literature results, as well as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Crescenzo Tortora , Aaron J. Romanowsky , Nicola R. Napolitano

We carry out a systematic investigation of the total mass density profile of massive (Mstar~3e11 Msun) early-type galaxies and its dependence on redshift, specifically in the range 0<z<1. We start from a large sample of SDSS early-type…

Using globular cluster (GC) kinematics and photometry data, we calibrate the scaling relation between the total galaxy mass (M_TOT including dark matter) and total globular cluster system mass (M_GCS) in a sample of 30 early-type galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-12 Dong-Woo Kim , Nicholas James , Giuseppina Fabbiano , Duncan Forbes , Adebusola Alabi

With SDSS galaxy data and halo data from up-to-date N-body simulations we construct a semi-empirical catalog (SEC) of early-type systems by making a self-consistent bivariate statistical match of stellar mass (M_star) and velocity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kyu-Hyun Chae , Andrey V. Kravtsov , Joshua A. Frieman , Mariangela Bernardi

Dynamical studies of local ETGs and the Fundamental Plane point to a strong dependence of M/L ratio on luminosity (and stellar mass) with a relation of the form $M/L \propto L^{\gamma}$. The "tilt" $\gamma$ may be caused by various factors,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Tortora , N. R. Napolitano , A. J. Romanowsky , M. Capaccioli , G. Covone

We study the total mass-density profile for a sample of 14 fast-rotator early-type galaxies (stellar masses $10.2<\log M_\ast/M_\odot<11.7$). We combine observations from the SLUGGS and Atlas3D surveys to map out the stellar kinematics in…

We present stellar and dark matter (DM) density profiles for a sample of seven massive, relaxed galaxy clusters derived from strong and weak gravitational lensing and resolved stellar kinematic observations within the centrally-located…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrew B. Newman , Tommaso Treu , Richard S. Ellis , David J. Sand

We analyze the central dark-matter (DM) content of \sim 4,500 massive (M* \gsim 10^{10} Msun), low-redshift (z<0.1), early-type galaxies (ETGs), with high-quality ugrizYJHK photometry and optical spectroscopy from SDSS and UKIDSS. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. Tortora , F. La Barbera , N. R. Napolitano , R. R. de Carvalho , A. J. Romanowsky

We study the evolutionary trend of the total density profile of early-type galaxies (ETGs) in IllustrisTNG. To this end, we trace ETGs from $z=0$ to $z=4$ and measure the power-law slope $\gamma^{\prime}$ of the total density profile for…

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