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We have derived rotation curves of nearby galaxies, which are almost completely sampled from the inner to outer regions. We used high-resolution position-velocity diagrams in the CO line along the major axes for the inner regions, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoshiaki Sofue

We have obtained high-resolution position-velocity (PV) diagrams along the major axes of the central regions of nearby galaxies in the CO-line emission using the Nobeyama 45-m telescope and the Millimeter Array. Nuclear rotation curves for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Yoshiaki Sofue , Yoshinori Tutui , Mareki Honma , Akihiko Tomita

We present high-resolution central-to-outer rotation curves for Sb, SBb, Sc, and SBc galaxies. We discuss their general characteristics, particularly their central behavior, as well as dependencies on morphological types, activity, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Sofue , Y. Tutui , M. Honma , A. Tomita , T. Takamiya , J. Koda , Y. Takeda

We have compiled high-resolution position-velocity diagrams observed along the major axes of nearby spiral galaxies in the CO-line emission, and derived rotation curves for the inner regions of the galaxies. We have combined the inner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Yoshiaki Sofue

Analyzing high-resolution longitude-velocity (LV) diagrams of the Galactic Center observed with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope in the CO and CS line emissions, we obtain a central rotation curve of the Milky Way. We combine it with the data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Yoshiaki Sofue

We have obtained optical CCD spectroscopy along the major axes of 22 nearby spiral galaxies of Sb and Sc types in order to analyze their rotation curves. By subtracting the stellar continuum emission, we have obtained position velocity (PV)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Yoshiaki Sofue , Akihiko Tomita , Yoshinori Tutui , Mareki Honma , Yoichi Takeda

We present rotation curves for 19, mostly luminous, early-type disk galaxies. Rotation velocities are measured from a combination of HI velocity fields and long-slit optical emission line spectra along the major axis. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Noordermeer , J. M. van der Hulst , R. Sancisi , R. S. Swaters , T. S. van Albada

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

High-resolution nuclear-to-outer rotation curves for Sb, SBb, Sc, and SBc galaxies show generally a steep nuclear rise and flat rotation from the disk to halo. The high-velocity central rotation indicates massive core within bulges. Since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Yoshiaki Sofue

The rotation curve (RC) of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is constructed starting from its very inner regions (few hundred pc) out to a large Galactocentric distance of $\sim 200$ kpc using kinematical data on a variety of tracer objects moving…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Pijushpani Bhattacharjee , Soumini Chaudhury , Susmita Kundu

We present near infra-red (NIR) adaptive optics assisted spectroscopic observations of the CO ($\Delta\mu=2$) absorption bands towards the centre of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1399. The observations were made with NAOS-CONICA (ESO VLT)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. C. W. Houghton , J. Magorrian , M. Sarzi , N. Thatte , R. L. Davies , D. Krajnovic

Based on a high-resolution CO survey of Virgo spirals with the Nobeyama Millimeter-wave Array, we determined the dynamical centers using velocity fields, and derived position-velocity diagrams (PVDs) along the major axes of the galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Y. Sofue , J. Koda , H. Nakanishi , S. Onodera

Mass models of a sample of 171 low- and high-surface brightness galaxies are presented in the context of the cold dark matter (CDM) theory using the NFW dark matter halo density distribution to extract a new concentration-viral mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-03-21 Hosein Haghi , Aziz Khodadadi , Amir Ghari , Akram Hasani Zonoozi , Pavel Kroupa

A galaxy is modeled as a stationary axially symmetric pressure-free fluid in general relativity. For the weak gravitational fields under consideration, the field equations and the equations of motion ultimately lead to one linear and one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. I. Cooperstock , S. Tieu

Rotational curves are measured for almost complete sample of 308 northern spiral galaxies using the 6-m telescope. For observations we selected edge-on galaxies from RFGC catalog with apparent axial ratio a/b>8, angular diameter a<2', and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. I. Makarov , I. D. Karachentsev , A. N. Burenkov

We derived the inner rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way by applying the terminal velocity method (TVM) to the longitude-velocity diagrams (LVD) made from the large-scale survey data of the Galactic plane in the HI (HI4PI whole sky survey)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-02 Y. Sofue , M. Kohno

We present a rotation curve (RC) of the inner Galaxy of the 1st quadrant at $10\deg \le l \le 50\deg ~ (R=1.3-6.2~{\rm kpc})$ with the highest spatial (2 pc) and velocity (1.3 km/s) resolutions. We used the ${^{12}}$CO(J=1-0)-line survey…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 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 have obtained interferometer observations of the central region of the Sb galaxy NGC 4527 in the 12CO (J=1-0) line emission using the Nobeyama Millimeter Array. We also obtained optical (Halpha, [NII]) spectroscopy using the Okayama…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Y. Sofue , A. Tomita , M. Honma , Y. Tutui

High resolution Halpha rotation curves are presented for five low surface brightness galaxies. These Halpha rotation curves have shapes different from those previously derived from HI observations, probably because of the higher spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. A. Swaters , B. F. Madore , M. Trewhella
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