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We present new, high sensitivity VLA observations of HI in four dwarf galaxies (UGCA 292, GR8, DDO 210, and DDO 216) and we use these data to study interactions between star formation and the interstellar medium. HI velocity dispersions and…

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Using imaging data from the SDSS survey, we present the g' and r' radial stellar light distribution of a complete sample of ~90 face-on to intermediate inclined, nearby, late-type (Sb-Sdm) spiral galaxies. The surface brightness profiles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Pohlen , I. Trujillo

The rotation curves of regularly rotating disc galaxies are a unique probe of the gravitational potential and dark matter distribution. Until recently, matter decomposition of rotation curves at $z>0.5$ was challenging, not only due to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-06 Fernanda Roman-Oliveira , Francesca Rizzo , Filippo Fraternali

In the best observed spiral galaxies, the HI is observed to decline slowly with radius for up to 90% of the maximum extent, before experiencing a rapid truncation. Early models predicted that the outer parts of spirals would be fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Bland-Hawthorn

In this Paper we investigate the kinematical properties of early-type dwarfs by significantly enlarging the scarce observational sample so far available. We present rotation curves and mean velocity dispersions for four bright dwarf…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. Pedraz , J. Gorgas , N. Cardiel , P. Sanchez-Blazquez , R. Guzman

We investigate the nature of objects in a complete sample of 28 galaxies selected from the first sky area fully covered by ALFALFA, being well-detected and having HI profiles wider than 550 km/s. The selection does not use brightness,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-22 Noah Brosch , Oded Spector , Adi Zitrin

We derive the oblateness parameter q of the dark matter halo of a sample of gas rich, face-on disk galaxies. We have assumed that the halos are triaxial in shape but their axes in the disk plane (a and b) are equal, so that q=c/a measures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-29 Mousumi Das , Roger Ianjamasimanana , Stacy S. McGaugh , James Schombert , K. S. Dwarakanath

We use Hubble Space Telescope archival images to measure central surface brightness profiles of globular clusters around satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. We report results for 21 clusters around the LMC, 5 around the SMC, and 4 around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Eva Noyola , Karl Gebhardt

The evolution of halos consisting of weakly self-interacting dark matter particles is summarized. The halos initially contain a central density cusp as predicted by cosmological models. Weak self-interaction leads to the formation of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Burkert

We fit elliptical isophotes to the Hubble Deep Field-North WFPC-2 and NICMOS data to study the rest-frame UV_{218}-U_{300} color profiles and rest-frame B surface brightness profiles of 33 intermediate redshift galaxies (0.5 <= z <= 1.2)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pimol Moth , Richard J. Elston

We report the results of a spectropolarimetric survey of a complete far infrared selected sample of Seyfert 2 galaxies. We have found polarized broad Halpha emission in one new source, NGC5995. In the sample as a whole, there is a clear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 S. L. Lumsden , C. A. Heisler , J. A. Bailey , J. H. Hough , S. Young

We present a unified H i rotation curve database for 129 dwarf and irregular galaxies drawn from four Local Volume surveys: the Local Volume H i Survey (LVHIS; 33 galaxies), VLA-ANGST (29), LITTLE THINGS (26), and WALLABY DR2 (41). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-22 David C. Flynn

We present results of deep, high velocity resolution ($\sim$1.6 kms$^{-1}$) Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) HI 21 cm-line observations of a sample of extremely faint (M$_B>-$12.5) dwarf irregular galaxies. Unlike previous studies, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ayesha Begum , Jayaram N. Chengalur

We present minimum chi-squared fits of power law and Hernquist density profiles to F-turnoff stars in eight 2.5 deg wide stripes of SDSS data: five in the North Galactic Cap and three in the South Galactic cap. Portions of the stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Heidi Jo Newberg , Brian Yanny

Dissipative dark matter, where dark matter particles interact with a massless (or very light) boson, is studied. Such dark matter can arise in simple hidden sector gauge models, including those featuring an unbroken $U(1)'$ gauge symmetry,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Foot

We estimate the cosmic number density of the recently identified class of HI-bearing ultra-diffuse sources (HUDs) based on the completeness limits of the ALFALFA survey. These objects fall in the range $8.5 < \log M_{\rm{HI}}/\rm{M_{\odot}}…

We examine scaling relations of dispersion-supported galaxies over more than eight orders of magnitude in luminosity by transforming standard fundamental plane parameters into a space of mass (M1/2), radius (r1/2), and luminosity (L1/2). We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-09 Erik J. Tollerud , James S. Bullock , Genevieve J. Graves , Joe Wolf

Cosmological numerical simulations of galaxy formation have led to the cuspy density profile of a pure cold dark matter halo toward the center, which is in sharp contradiction with the observations of the rotation curves of cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-09 Nan Li , Da-Ming Chen

We investigate the distribution of dark matter (DM) in gas-rich, low-mass galaxies, confronting them with numerical cosmological simulations with cold dark matter (LCDM). We show that the derived rotation curves comply best with cored DM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 U. Klein , G. Gentile , P. Salucci , G. J , G. Józsa

An overview is presented of the main properties of dark matter haloes, as we know them from observations, essentially from rotation curves around spiral and dwarf galaxies. Detailed rotation curves are now known for more than a thousand…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. Combes