Dark halo properties from rotation curves

Details Dark halo properties from rotation curves Dark halo properties from rotation curves

2002-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0201352v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 339 (2003) 243

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06165.x

We study a large set of high spatial resolution optical rotation curves of galaxies with the goal of determining the model parameters for a disk embedded within a CDM halo that we model either with a NFW profile or pseudo-isothermal profile. We show that parameter degeneracies present in lower resolution data are lifted at these higher resolutions. 34% of the galaxies do not have a meaningful fit when using the NFW profile and 32% when using the pseudoisothermal profile, however only 14% do not have a meaningful fit in either model. In both models we find correlations between the disk baryon fraction $f_d$ and the spin parameter of the halo $\lambda'$, between $f_d$ and the dark halo mass $M_{200}$, and between $M_{200}$ and the concentration parameter $c$. We show that the distribution of the concentration parameters $c$, for a NFW halo, is in good agreement with CDM predictions; no significant galaxy population is found with very low values of $c$. The overall distribution of $\lambda'$ is in good agreement with theoretical predictions from hierarchical tidal torque theory. The whole sample is also well fitted by a pseudo-isothermal dark halo with a core, but the size of the core is rather small (for 70% of the sample the core size is less than 2 kpc). Thus we conclude that the profile of dark matter is steep ($r^{-1}$ or steeper) down to this radius; large dark matter cores (and therefore very low dark matter central densities) seem to be excluded. LSBs tend to have higher values of $\lambda'$ for a given $f_d$ and lower values of $c$ for a given mass than HSBs. In an appendix we give some useful formula for pseudo-isothermal profile halos and discuss in detail the issue of parameter degeneracies.

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