The Extended Rotation Curve and the Dark Matter Halo of M33

Details The Extended Rotation Curve and the Dark Matter Halo of M33 The Extended Rotation Curve and the Dark Matter Halo of M33

1999-09-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909252v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS latex style, accepted by MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03075.x

We present the 21-cm rotation curve of the nearby galaxy M33 out to a galactocentric distance of 16 kpc (13 disk scale-lengths). The rotation curve keeps rising out to the last measured point and implies a dark halo mass larger than 5 10^{10} solar masses. The stellar and gaseous disks provide virtually equal contributions to the galaxy gravitational potential at large galactocentric radii but no obvious correlation is found between the radial distribution of dark matter and the distribution of stars or gas. Results of the best fit to the mass distribution in M33 picture a dark halo which controls the gravitational potential from 3 kpc outward, with a matter density which decreases radially as R^{-1.3}. The density profile is consistent with the theoretical predictions for structure formation in hierarchical clustering cold dark matter models but mass concentrations are lower than those expected in the standard cosmogony.

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