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We have measured a velocity dispersion for the foreground galaxy in this gravitationally lensed system. Our dispersion confirms the prediction from lens models, provided that the source is distant enough ($z_{_S}>0.2$). Current…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Lehar , A. J. Cooke , C. R. Lawrence , A. D. Silber , G. I. Langston

The size-mass galaxy distribution is a key diagnostic for galaxy evolution. Massive compact galaxies are potential surviving relics of a high-redshift phase of star formation. Some of these could be nearly unresolved in SDSS imaging and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-08 Ivan K. Baldry , Tricia Sullivan , Raffaele Rani , Sebastian Turner

We present a percent-level accurate model of the line-of-sight velocity distribution of galaxies around dark matter halos as a function of projected radius and halo mass. The model is developed and tested using synthetic galaxy catalogs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Han Aung , Daisuke Nagai , Eduardo Rozo , Brandon Wolfe , Susmita Adhikari

We study the mass distribution in six nearby (z<0.06) relaxed Abell clusters of galaxies A0262, A0496, A1060, A2199, A3158 and A3558. Given the dominance of dark matter in galaxy clusters we approximate their total density distribution by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ewa L. Lokas , Radoslaw Wojtak , Stefan Gottloeber , Gary A. Mamon , Francisco Prada

Measurements of the surface brightness distribution and of the velocity dispersion profile have been so far used to infer the inner dynamics of globular clusters. We show that those observations do not trace back the dark matter potentially…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Roueff , Pierre Salati , Richard Taillet

We probe the dynamical mass profiles of 10 galaxy clusters from the HIghest X-ray FLUx Galaxy Cluster Sample (HIFLUGCS) using galaxy kinematics. We numerically solve the spherical Jeans equation, and parameterize the dynamical mass profile…

Dark matter N-body simulations suggest that the velocity distribution of dark matter is anisotropic. In this work we employ a mass model for the Milky Way whose parameters are determined from a fit to kinematical data. Then we adopt an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Nassim Bozorgnia , Riccardo Catena , Thomas Schwetz

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

Aim: We aim to compute the mass and velocity anisotropy profiles of Abell 2142 and, from there, the pseudo phase--space density profile $Q(r)$ and the density slope - velocity anisotropy $\beta - \gamma$ relation, and then to compare them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-22 Emiliano Munari , Andrea Biviano , Gary Mamon

Observationally, the fraction of blue satellite galaxies decreases steeply with host halo mass, and their radial distribution around central galaxies is significantly shallower in massive (M_* >10e11M_sun) than in Milky Way like systems.…

We model the phase-space of the kinematic tracers using general, smooth distribution functions to derive a conservative lower bound on the total mass within 150-200 kpc. By approximating the potential as Keplerian, the phase-space…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-19 Łukasz Bratek , Szymon Sikora , Joanna Jałocha , Marek Kutschera

We present evidence for a ring of stars in the plane of the Milky Way, extending at least from l = 180 deg to l = 227 deg with turnoff magnitude $g \sim 19.5$; the ring could encircle the Galaxy. We infer that the low Galactic latitude…

We use the \texttt{GRUMPY} galaxy formation model based on a suite of zoom-in, high-resolution, dissipationless $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) simulations of the Milky Way (MW) sized haloes to examine total matter density within…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-02 Andrey Kravtsov , Zewei Wu

Sensitive ground-based submillimeter surveys, such as ATLASGAL, provide a global view on the distribution of cold dense gas in the Galactic plane. Here we use the 353 GHz maps from the Planck/HFI instrument to complement the ground-based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 T. Csengeri , A. Weiss , F. Wyrowski , K. M. Menten , J. S. Urquhart , S. Leurini , F. Schuller , H. Beuther , S. Bontemps , L. Bronfman , Th. Henning , N. Schneider

We investigate the dependence of stellar population properties of galaxies on group dynamical stage for a subsample of Yang catalog. We classify groups according to their galaxy velocity distribution into Gaussian (G) and Non-Gaussian (NG).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-23 R. R. de Carvalho , A. L. B. Ribeiro , D. Stalder , R. R. Rosa , A. P. Costa , T. Moura

This paper is the first of a series considering the properties of distribution of nearby galaxies in the low density regions. Among 7596 galaxies with radial velocities V_{LG}<3500 km/s, absolute magnitudes M_K<-18.4^m$, and Galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. D. Karachentsev , V. E. Karachentseva , O. V. Melnyk , A. A. Elyiv , D. I. Makarov

We demonstrate the existence of distribution functions that can be used to represent spherical massless cored stellar systems embedded in cuspy dark matter halos with constant mildly tangential velocity anisotropy. In particular, we derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Maarten A. Breddels , Amina Helmi

In the first paper we presented 27 hydrodynamical cosmological simulations of galaxies with total masses between $5 \times 10^8$ and $10^{10}\,\mathrm{M}_\odot$. In this second paper we use a subset of these cosmological simulations as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-08 Jonas Frings , Andrea V. Macciò , Tobias Buck , Camilla Penzo , Aaron A. Dutton , Aura Obreja , Marvin Blank

Here we study the metallicity bias in the velocity dispersions, the derived quantity called anisotropy and the mean azimuthal velocity profiles of the Milky Way stellar halo using Blue Horizontal Branch (BHB) stars taken from SDSS/SEGUE…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-02-18 P. R. Kafle , S. Sharma , G. F. Lewis , J. Bland-Hawthorn

Given the dimensions (including thickness) of an axisymmetric galaxy, Newton's law is used in integral form to find the density distributions required to match a wide range of orbital speed profiles. Newton's law is not modified and no dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Kenneth F. Nicholson