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In decomposing the HI rotation curves of disc galaxies, it is necessary to break a degeneracy between the gravitational fields of the disc and the dark halo by estimating the disc surface density. This is done by combining measurements of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-13 S. Aniyan , K. C. Freeman , O. E. Gerhard , M. Arnaboldi , C. Flynn

Predicting the local flux of dark matter particles is vital for dark matter direct detection experiments. To date, such predictions have been based on simulations that model the dark matter alone. Here we include the influence of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 J. I. Read , V. Debattista , O. Agertz , L. Mayer , A. M. Brooks , F. Governato , G. Lake

We aim at studying the abundance gradients along the Galactic disk and their dependence upon several parameters: a threshold in the surface gas density regulating star formation, the star formation efficiency, the timescale for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Colavitti , G. Cescutti , F. Matteucci , G. Murante

We employ high-resolution zoom-in cosmological simulations to analyze the emerging morphology of galaxies in dark matter halos at redshifts z > 2. We choose DM halos of similar masses of log (Mvir/Mo) ~11.65 +- 0.05 at the target redshifts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Da Bi , Isaac Shlosman , Emilio Romano-Diaz

We explore the relative importance of the stellar mass density as compared to the inner dark halo, for the observed gas kinematics thoughout the disks of spiral galaxies. We perform hydrodynamical simulations of the gas flow in a sequence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thilo Kranz , Adrianne Slyz , Hans-Walter Rix

In the last five decades, numerical simulations have provided invaluable insights into the evolution of galactic discs over cosmic times. As a complementary approach, developments in kinetic theory now also offer a theoretical framework to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-09 Mathieu Roule , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Christophe Pichon , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We investigate gravitational lensing by a realistic model of disk galaxies. Most of the mass is contained in a large spherical isothermal dark matter halo, but the potential is modified significantly in the core by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ole Moeller , A. W. Blain

The decomposition of the rotation curve of galaxies into contribution from the disc and dark halo remains uncertain and depends on the adopted mass to light ratio (M/L) of the disc. Given the vertical velocity dispersion of stars and disc…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-13 S. Aniyan , K. C. Freeman , M. Arnaboldi , O. E. Gerhard , L. Coccato , M. Fabricius , K. Kuijken , M. Merrifield , A. A. Ponomareva

Vertical stellar kinematics+density can be used to trace the dark matter distribution [or the equivalent phantom mass in a Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) scenario] through Jeans equations. In this paper, we want to improve this type of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-16 Martin Lopez-Corredoira

We give a summary of recent results on spatial and velocity biases in cosmological models. Progress in numerical techniques made it possible to simulate halos in large volumes with a such accuracy that halos survive in dense environments of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Klypin

We performed 3-dimensional N-body/SPH simulations to study how mass resolution and other model parameters such as the star formation efficiency parameter, C* and the threshold density, nth affect structures of the galactic gaseous/stellar…

The stellar disc kinematics in a sample of fifteen intermediate- to late-type edge-on spiral galaxies are studied using a dynamical modeling technique. The sample covers a substantial range in maximum rotation velocity and deprojected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kregel , P. C. van der Kruit

Following Toomre & Kalnajs (1991), local models of slightly dissipative self-gravitating disks show how inhomogeneous structures can be maintained over several galaxy rotations. Their basic physical ingredients are self-gravity, dissipation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Daniel Huber , Daniel Pfenniger

Spherical Jeans modeling is widely used to estimate mass profiles of systems from star clusters to galactic stellar haloes to clusters of galaxies. It derives the cumulative mass profile, M(<r), from kinematics of tracers of the potential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Nabeel Rehemtulla , Monica Valluri , Eugene Vasiliev

Rotation curves constrain a galaxy's underlying mass density profile, under the assumption that the observed rotation produces a centripetal force that exactly balances the inward force of gravity. However, most rotation curves are measured…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. J. Dalcanton , A. Stilp

We explore the density profile, shape, and virial mass of the Milky Way's dark matter halo using K giants (KG) from LAMOST and SDSS/SEGUE, as well as blue horizontal branch (BHB) stars from SDSS. Incorporating Gaia DR3 proper motions, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-15 Lan Zhang , Xiang-Xiang Xue , Ling Zhu , Ruizhi Zhang , Chengqun Yang , Shi Shao , Jiang Chang , Feilu Wang , Hao Tian , Gang Zhao , Chao Liu

We use 3D MHD simulations to investigate nonlinear development of the Parker, magneto-Jeans (MJI), and swing mechanisms in galactic disks. The model disks are local, isothermal, and begin from a vertically-stratified equilibrium. We first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Woong-Tae Kim , Eve C. Ostriker , James M. Stone

We develop a new technique to equip models of spiral galaxies with self-consistent dynamics that match observations. We apply our technique and construct a model for the Milky Way with a dynamical interstellar medium (ISM). In simulations a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-21 Joachim Frenkler

High resolution spectra data of red clump stars towards the NGP have been obtained with the high resolution spectrograph Elodie at OHP for Tycho-2 selected stars. Combined with Hipparcos local analogues, we determine both the gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Siebert , O. Bienayme , C. Soubiran

The structure and kinematics of the recognized stellar components of the Milky Way are explored, based on well-determined atmospheric parameters and kinematic quantities for 32360 calibration stars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)…