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In Milgrom's modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) framework, the dynamical mass of a galaxy is fully determined by its baryonic matter distribution. We fit the distribution of cold and hot gas halos, focusing on hot gas, around SDSS central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-07 Li Ma , Ziwen Zhang , Huiyuan Wang , Xufen Wu

We set new limits on the mass of the Milky Way, making use of the latest kinematic information for Galactic satellites and halo objects. In order to bind these sample objects to the Galaxy, their rest-frame velocities must be lower than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tsuyoshi Sakamoto , Masashi Chiba , Timothy C. Beers

The timing argument provides a lower limit on the mass of the Milky Way. We find, using a sample of 32 stars at $R > 60$ kpc drawn from the H3 Spectroscopic Survey and mock catalogs created from published numerical simulations, that…

We use both an HI-selected and an optically-selected galaxy sample to directly measure the abundance of galaxies as a function of their "baryonic" mass (stars + atomic gas). Stellar masses are calculated based on optical data from the Sloan…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Emmanouil Papastergis , Andrea Cattaneo , Shan Huang , Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes

We study the stellar, neutral gas content within halos over a halo mass range $10^{10} \text{ to } 10^{15.5} \text{M}_\odot$ and hot X-ray gas content over a halo mass range $10^{12.8} \text{ to } 10^{15.5} \text{M}_\odot$ in the local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-04 Ajay Dev , Simon P. Driver , Martin Meyer , Aaron Robotham , Danail Obreschkow , Paola Popesso , Johan Comparat

A comparison between published field galaxy stellar mass functions (GSMFs) shows that the cosmic stellar mass density is in the range 4--8 per cent of the baryon density (assuming Omega_b = 0.045). There remain significant sources of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. K. Baldry , K. Glazebrook , S. P. Driver

We present a summary of recent assessments of the mass distribution in disk galaxies. Of issue in order to characterize galaxy formation models is to determine the relative fraction of baryons and dark matter at all radii in galaxies. For…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Stephane Courteau , Aaron A. Dutton

We exploit deep integral-field spectroscopic observations with KMOS/VLT of 240 star-forming disks at 0.6 < z < 2.6 to dynamically constrain their mass budget. Our sample consists of massive ($\gtrsim 10^{9.8} M_\odot$) galaxies with sizes…

We estimate the baryonic (stellar+cold gas) mass function of galaxies in the local Universe by assigning a complete sample of Two Micron All Sky Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies a gas fraction based on a statistical sample of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric F. Bell , Daniel H. McIntosh , Neal Katz , Martin D. Weinberg

We compile a sample of dispersion-supported and rotation-supported galaxies for which the dynamical mass enclosed at 500 pc can be measured. We find that this dynamical quantity increases only slowly with stellar mass (M$_{total}$(<500pc)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Rachel Kuzio de Naray , Stacy S. McGaugh

We combine data for extragalactic systems to quantify a relation between the observed baryonic mass $M_b$ and the enclosed dynamical mass $M_{200}$ inferred from kinematics or gravitational lensing. Our sample covers nine orders of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-09 Stacy McGaugh , Tobias Mistele , Francis Duey , Konstantin Haubner , Federico Lelli , Jim Schombert , Pengfei Li

In the Big Bang about 5% of the mass that was created was in the form of normal baryonic matter (neutrons and protons). Of this about 10% ended up in galaxies in the form of stars or of gas (that can be in molecules, can be atomic, or can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. I. Read , Neil Trentham

An overview of the methods used to estimate the mass of the Galaxy and the results obtained by various authors recently according to modern data is given. In particular, the estimates obtained based on the analysis of the galactic rotation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-31 V. V. Bobylev , A. T. Bajkova

Recently, we determined a lower bound for the Milky Way mass in a point mass approximation. This result was obtained for most general spherically symmetric phase-space distribution functions consistent with a measured radial velocity…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-04 Szymon Sikora , Łukasz Bratek , Joanna Jałocha , Marek Kutschera

We use a set of observational data for galaxy cold gas mass fraction and gas phase metallicity to constrain the content, inflow and outflow of gas in central galaxies hosted by halos with masses between $10^{11} M_{\odot}$ to $10^{12}…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhankui Lu , H. J. Mo , Yu Lu

One of the most direct way to constrain the matter density of the universe $\Omega_M$ is to measure the baryon content in X-Rays clusters of galaxies. Typical value of the mean gas mass fraction is $\fg \sim 0.15h^{-3/2}$ which leads to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Sadat , A. Blanchard , M. Douspis

The kinematic dispersions of disc stars can be used to measure the dynamic contributions of baryons to the rotation curves of spiral galaxies and hence to trace the amount and distribution of the remaining dark matter. However, the simple…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-31 Frederic V. Hessman

We show that a global relation between baryonic mass and virial velocity can be constructed from the scale of dwarf galaxies up to that of rich galaxy clusters. The slope of this relation is close to that expected if dark matter halos form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lucio Mayer , Ben Moore

The discrepancy between dynamical mass measures of objects such as galaxies and the observed distribution of luminous matter in the universe is typically explained by invoking an unseen ``dark matter'' component. Dark matter must…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 William H. Kinney , Martina Brisudova

Recent analysis of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies reveals that these objects share a common central mass density, even though their luminosities range over five orders of magnitude. This observation can be understood in the context of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Martin Stringer , Shaun Cole , Carlos Frenk
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