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We report high quality, Halpha or CO rotation curves (RCs) to several Re for 41 large, massive, star-forming disk galaxies (SFGs), across the peak of cosmic galaxy evolution (z~0.67-2.45), taken with the ESO-VLT, the LBT and IRAM-NOEMA.…

We have used the EFAR sample of galaxies to study the light distributions of early-type galaxies. We decompose the 2D light distribution of the galaxies in a flattened spheroidal component with a Sersic radial light profile and an inclined…

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

I review the up-to-date status on the properties of the Dark Matter density distribution around Galaxies. The rotation curves of spirals all conform to a same Universal profile which can be uniquely decomposed as the sum of an exponential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Salucci

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

We present the correlation between the extrapolated central disk surface brightness (mu) and extrapolated central surface mass density (Sigma) for galaxies in the DiskMass sample. This mu-Sigma-relation has a small scatter of 30% at the…

This paper presents surface photometry (B,V, I, J, H, K) and H_alpha rotation curves of 27 isolated spiral galaxies. The final goal is to obtain the mass distribution of a sample of isolated spiral galaxies in order to model their gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Perez , I. Marquez , K. Freeman , R. Fux

We study the luminous mass as a function of the dynamical mass inside the effective radius (r_e) of early-type galaxies (ETGs) to search for differences between these masses. We assume Newtonian dynamics and that any difference between…

We present the stellar and gaseous kinematics of an Sb galaxy, NGC 3223, with the aim of determining the vertical and radial stellar velocity dispersion as a function of radius, which can help to constrain disk heating theories. Together…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-01 G. Gentile , C. Tydtgat , M. Baes , G. De Geyter , M. Koleva , G. W. Angus , W. J. G. de Blok , W. Saftly , S. Viaene

We investigate the well-known correlations between the dynamical mass-to-light ratio M/L and other global observables of elliptical (E) and lenticular (S0) galaxies. We construct two-integral Jeans and three-integral Schwarzschild dynamical…

We study a sample of 43 early-type galaxies, selected from the SDSS because they appeared to have velocity dispersion > 350 km/s. High-resolution photometry in the SDSS i passband using HRC-ACS on board the HST shows that just less than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Bernardi , J. B. Hyde , A. Fritz , R. K. Sheth , K. Gebhardt , R. C. Nichol

We analyze Ha or CO rotation curves (RCs) extending out to several galaxy effective radii for 100 massive, large, star-forming disk galaxies (SFGs) across the peak of cosmic galaxy star formation (z~0.6-2.5), more than doubling the previous…

In the inner parts of spiral galaxies, of high or low surface brightness, there is a close correlation between rotation curve shape and light distribution. For any feature in the luminosity profile there is a corresponding feature in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Renzo Sancisi

Rotation curves of more than one hundred spiral galaxies were compiled from the literature, and deconvolved into bulge, disk, and dark halo using $\chi^2$ fitting in order to determine their scale radii and masses. Correlation analyses were…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-04 Yoshiaki Sofue

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

We present mass distributions obtained from near-infrared (NIR) surface brightness decompositions and rotation curve fitting of a sample of early-type spiral galaxies. Bulge and disk mass-to-light (M/L) ratios, dark halo parameters, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Moriondo , Carlo Giovanardi , Leslie K. Hunt

We suggest and verify a new photometric method enabling derivation of relative thickness of a galactic disk from two-dimensional surface-brightness distribution of the galaxy in the plane of the sky. The method is applied to images of 45…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Ekaterina M. Chudakova , Olga K. Sil'chenko

We measure the contribution of galaxy disks to the overall gravitational potential of 30 nearly face-on intermediate-to-late-type spirals from the DiskMass Survey. The central vertical velocity dispersion of the disk stars, sigma(z,R=0), is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthew A. Bershady , Thomas P. K. Martinsson , Marc A. W. Verheijen , Kyle B. Westfall , David R. Andersen , Rob A. Swaters

The two edge-on galaxies NGC891 and NGC7814 are representative of two extreme morphologies: the former is disk-dominated while the latter is almost entirely bulge-dominated. It has been argued (van der Kruit 1983) that since the two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Filippo Fraternali , Renzo Sancisi , Peter Kamphuis

Astronomers have been using the measured luminosity to estimate the {\em luminous mass} of stars, based on empirically established mass-to-light ratio which seems to be only applicable to a special class of stars---the main-sequence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-23 James Q. Feng , C. F. Gallo