Dark matter in elliptical galaxies – I. Is the total mass density profile of the NFW form or even steeper?
Dark matter in elliptical galaxies – I. Is the total mass density profile of the NFW form or even steeper?
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椭圆星系中的暗物质 – I. NFW 形式的总质量密度分布是否更陡峭?
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09225.x
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发表时间:
2004
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Poland
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作者:
G. Mamon;E. L. L. Iap;París;France.;Camk;Warsaw;Poland
Elliptical galaxies are modelled as Sersic luminosity dis tributions with density profiles (DPs) for the total mass adopted from the DPs of haloes within dissipationlessCDM N- body simulations. Ellipticals turn out to be inconsistent w ith cuspy low-concentration NFW models representing the total mass, nor are they consistent with a steeper 1.5 inner slope, nor with the shallower models proposed by Navarro et al. (2004), nor with NFW models 10 times more concentrated than predicted, as deduced from several X-ray observations: the mass models, extrapolated inwards, lead to local mass-to-light ratios that are smaller than the stellar value inside an effective radius (Re), and to central aperture velocity dispersions that are muc h smaller than observed. This conclusion remains true as long as there is no sharp steepening (slope < 2) of the dark matter (DM) DPs just inside 0.01 virial radii. The too low total mass and velocity dispersion produced within Re by an NFW-like total mass profile suggests that the stellar component should domi nate the DM one out to at least Re. It should then be difficult to kinematically constrain the i nner slope of the dark matter DP of ellipticals. The high concentration parameters deduced from X-ray observations appear to be a consequence of fitting an NFW model to the total mass DP m ade up of a stellar component that dominates inside and a DM component that dominates outwards. An appendix gives the virial mass dependence of the concentration parameter, central density, and total mass of the Navarro et al. model. In a 2nd appendix are given single integral expressions for the velocity dispersions averaged along the line-of-sight, in circular apertures and in thin slits, for general luminosity density and mass di stributions, with isotropic orbits.