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We present a comprehensive analysis of the dark matter (DM) content and its structural dependence in star-forming disk-like galaxies at intermediate redshifts ($0.1 \lesssim z \lesssim 0.85$), utilizing spatially resolved kinematic data…

The mass discrepancy in disk galaxies is shown to be well correlated with acceleration, increasing systematically with decreasing acceleration below a critical scale a0 = 3700 km^2/s^2/kpc = 1.2E-10 m/s/s. For each galaxy, there is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stacy S. McGaugh

We measure the contribution of galaxy disks to the overall gravitational potential of 30 nearly face-on intermediate-to-late-type spirals from the DiskMass Survey. The central vertical velocity dispersion of the disk stars, sigma(z,R=0), is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthew A. Bershady , Thomas P. K. Martinsson , Marc A. W. Verheijen , Kyle B. Westfall , David R. Andersen , Rob A. Swaters

By means of interferometic 21-cm observations and a 3D kinematic modeling technique, we study the gas kinematics of six HI-rich ultra-diffuse galaxies (UDGs). We derive robust circular velocities and baryonic masses, that allow us to study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-17 Pavel E. Mancera Piña , Filippo Fraternali , Elizabeth A. K. Adams , Tom Oosterloo

For disk galaxies (spirals and irregulars), the inner circular-velocity gradient (inner steepness of the rotation curve) correlates with the central surface brightness with a slope of ~0.5. This implies that the central dynamical mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-23 Federico Lelli

We perform controlled N-body simulations of disc galaxies growing within live dark matter (DM) haloes to present-day galaxies that contain both thin and thick discs. We consider two types of models: a) thick-disc initial conditions to which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Michael Aumer , James Binney

We present a method to derive the dynamical mass of face-on galaxy disks using their neutral hydrogen (HI) velocity dispersion. We have applied the method to nearby, gas rich galaxies that have extended HI gas disks and have low…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-05 Mousumi Das , Stacy McGaugh , Roger Ianjamasimanana , James Schombert , K. S. Dwarakanath

Different ways of the determination of masses of galactic disks, based on the kinematic data, are briefly discussed. The analysis of the rotation curves which reach maximum inside of a disk, and N-body modeling, reproducing the rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Zasov , A. V. Khoperskov , N. V. Tyurina

The mass-size relations of galaxies are generally studied considering only stars or only gas separately. Here we study the baryonic mass-size relation of galaxies from the SPARC database, using the total baryonic mass ($M_{\rm bar}$) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-21 Zichen Hua , Federico Lelli , Enrico Di Teodoro , Stacy McGaugh , James Schombert

Using 22 hydrodynamical simulated galaxies in a LCDM cosmological context we recover not only the observed baryonic Tully-Fisher relation, but also the observed "mass discrepancy--acceleration" relation, which reflects the distribution of…

Bars and spiral arms have played an important role as constraints on the dynamics and on the distribution of dark matter in the optical parts of disk galaxies. Dynamics linked to the dissipative nature of gas, and its transformation into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Daniel Pfenniger , Yves Revaz

The observed rotation curves of disc galaxies, ranging from late-type dwarf galaxies to early-type spirals, can be fit remarkably well simply by scaling up the contributions of the stellar and HI discs. This `baryonic scaling model' can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. A. Swaters , R. Sancisi , J. M. van der Hulst , T. S. van Albada

We identify some of the most HI massive and fastest rotating disk galaxies in the local universe with the aim of probing the processes that drive the formation of these extreme disk galaxies. By combining data from the Cosmic Flows project,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 H. M. Courtois , D. Zaritsky , J. G. Sorce , D. Pomarede

We analyze the global structure of 34 late-type, edge-on, undisturbed, disk galaxies spanning a wide range of mass. We measure structural parameters for the galaxies using two-dimensional least-squares fitting to our $R$-band photometry.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Yoachim , Julianne J. Dalcanton

The formation of galactic discs and the efficiency of star formation within them are issues central to our understanding of galaxy formation. We have developed a detailed and versatile model of disc formation which combines the strengths of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 M. J. Stringer , A. J. Benson

Astronomers have been using the measured luminosity to estimate the {\em luminous mass} of stars, based on empirically established mass-to-light ratio which seems to be only applicable to a special class of stars---the main-sequence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-23 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo

We report high quality, Halpha or CO rotation curves (RCs) to several Re for 41 large, massive, star-forming disk galaxies (SFGs), across the peak of cosmic galaxy evolution (z~0.67-2.45), taken with the ESO-VLT, the LBT and IRAM-NOEMA.…

Mass models for a sample of 18 late-type dwarf and low surface brightness galaxies show that in almost all cases the contribution of the stellar disks to the rotation curves can be scaled to explain most of the observed rotation curves out…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. A. Swaters , R. Sancisi , T. S. van Albada , J. M. van der Hulst

Recent work on the mass distribution in spiral galaxies, using mainly HI observations, is reviewed. The principal problem is still to determine to what extent the dark matter is important in the inner parts of a galaxy, or in other words,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Bosma

We use a sample of Milky Way (MW) analogs for which we have stellar and disk gas mass measurements, published measurements of halo gas masses of the MW and of similar galaxies, and the well-established value of the cosmological baryon…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-28 Dennis Zaritsky , Helene Courtois