Dark matter halo models for SPARC galaxies

DOI

We present rotation curve fits to 175 late-type galaxies from the Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves database using seven dark matter (DM) halo profiles: pseudo-isothermal, Burkert, Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW), Einasto, Di Cintio+ (DC14; 2014MNRAS.441.2986D), cored-NFW, and a new semi-empirical profile named Lucky13. We marginalize over the stellar mass-to-light ratio, galaxy distance, disk inclination, halo concentration, and halo mass (and an additional shape parameter for Einasto) using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method. We find that cored halo models, such as the DC14 and Burkert profiles, generally provide better fits to rotation curves than the cuspy NFW profile. The stellar mass-halo mass relation from abundance matching is recovered by all halo profiles once imposed as a Bayesian prior, whereas the halo mass-concentration relation is not reproduced in detail by any halo model.

Cone search capability for table J/ApJS/247/31/galaxies (The 175 SPARC (Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves database) late-type galaxies; table added by CDS)

Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.22470031
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/247/31
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Provenance
Creator Li P.; Lelli F.; McGaugh S.; Schombert J.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2020
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OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics