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We examine the amplitude of the rotation velocity that can be attributed to the dark matter halos of disk galaxies, focusing on well measured intermediate radii. The data for 60 galaxies spanning a large range of mass and Hubble types,…

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We model the mass distributions of 40 high surface brightness spiral galaxies inside their optical radii, deriving parameters of mass models by matching the predicted velocities to observed velocity maps. We use constant mass-to-light disk…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric I. Barnes , J. A. Sellwood , Arthur Kosowsky

The accuracy and robustness of a simple method to estimate the total mass profile of a galaxy is tested using a sample of 65 cosmological zoom-simulations of individual galaxies. The method only requires information on the optical surface…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Lyskova , E. Churazov , I. Zhuravleva , T. Naab , L. Oser , O. Gerhard , X. Wu

We present results of numerical modeling made for the galactic stellar disk embedded in the spherical halo. The non-linear dynamics of bending instabilities developed in the disk is studied. The axisymmetrical bending mode is considered as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Bizyaev , A. Khoperskov , N. Tiurina

The goal of this work is to probe the total mass distribution of early-type galaxies with globular clusters (GCs) as kinematic tracers, by constraining the parameters of the profile with a flexible modelling approach. To that end, we…

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We estimate the Mass Function of void galaxies in the second public data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from a sample of 1000 galaxies with local density contrasts of delta_v < -0.6. The galaxy sample is split into ellipticals and…

Mass models of 15 nearby dwarf and spiral galaxies are presented. The galaxies are selected to be homogeneous in terms of the method used to determine their distances, the sampling of their rotation curves (RCs) and the mass-to-light ratio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Toky Randriamampandry , Claude Carignan

This article summarizes recent work on the luminosity and mass distribution of the Galactic bulge and disk, and on the mass of the Milky Way's dark halo. A new luminosity model consistent with the COBE NIR data and the apparent magnitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Ortwin Gerhard

The radial distribution of mass in a disk galaxy is strongly constrained by its rotation curve. The separate contributions from the individual stellar populations and dark matter (DM) are not easily disentangled, however, especially since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J A Sellwood

Shown are the errors and difficulties of the equations used for galaxy rotation speeds in the book "Galactic Dynamics" (Binney and Tremaine). A usable and accurate set of equations is then presented. The new equations allow easy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kenneth F Nicholson

The distributions of normal matter and of dark matter in the Galaxy are coupled to each other as they both move in the common gravitational potential. In order to fully exploit this interplay and to derive the various properties of dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-16 Benjamin Burch , Ramanath Cowsik

The rotation curve, the total mass and the gravitational potential of the Galaxy are sensitive measurements of the dark matter halo profile. In this publication cuspy and cored DM halo profiles are analysed with respect to recent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Markus Weber , Wim de Boer

We model a spiral galaxy by a thin axially symmetric disk that includes both visible and dark matter. The surface mass density of the disk is calculated directly from the rotational velocity curve without extra assumptions. We simplify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valentin Kostov

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

In hierarchical clustering, galaxy clusters accrete mass through the aggregation of smaller systems. Thus, the velocity field of the infall regions of clusters contains significant random motion superimposed on radial infall. Because the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 Antonaldo Diaferio , Margaret J. Geller

I review our current knowledge of the mass distribution in clusters, as obtained from the analysis of the projected phase-space distribution of cluster galaxies. I discuss the methods of analysis, their relative advantages and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Biviano

We present radial profiles of the surface mass density (SMD) in spiral galaxies directly calculated using rotation curves (RC) on two approximations of flat-disk (SMD-F) and spherical mass distribution (SMD-S). The SMDs are combined with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-25 Yoshiaki Sofue

We study mass distributions within and beyond 5~effective radii ($R_{\rm e}$) in 23 early-type galaxies from the SLUGGS survey, using their globular cluster (GC) kinematic data. The data are obtained with Keck/DEIMOS spectrograph, and…

We propose a new technique to directly measure the shapes of dark matter halos of galaxies using weak gravitational lensing. Extending the standard galaxy-galaxy lensing method, we show that the shape parameters of the mass distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Priyamvada Natarajan , Alexandre Refregier

We examine the projected correlation of galaxies with mass from small scales (<few hundred kpc) where individual dark matter halos dominate, out to 15 Mpc where correlated large-scale structure dominates. We investigate these profiles as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Ami Choi , J. Anthony Tyson , Chris B. Morrison , M. James Jee , Samuel J. Schmidt , Vera E. Margoniner , David M. Wittman