LCDM-based models for the Milky Way and M31 I: Dynamical Models

Details LCDM-based models for the Milky Way and M31 I: Dynamical Models LCDM-based models for the Milky Way and M31 I: Dynamical Models

2001-10-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110390v1

Astrophys.J.573:597-613,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

26 pages, 11 figures, submited to ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/340656

We apply standard disk formation theory with adiabatic contraction within cuspy halo models predicted by the standard LCDM cosmology. The resulting models score remarkably well when confronted with the broad range of observational data available for the Milky Way and M31 galaxies, giving a Milky Way virial mass of 1-2x10^12Msun and concentration C=12-17. We consider two types of models, in which: (A) baryons conserve angular momentum and (B) some of the angular momentum of the baryons is transferred to the dark matter. Type-A models produce good agreement with observed rotation curves and obey constraints in the solar neighborhood, but may have too much dark matter in the center to allow a fast rotating bar. The type-B models with angular momentum transport have a slightly more massive disk and less dark matter in the central part, allowing a fast rotating bar to persist. Both classes of models probably have sufficient baryonic mass in the central 3.5kpc to reproduce recent observational values of the optical depth to microlensing events towards the Galactic center. All models require that about 1/2 of all baryons expected inside the virial radius must not be in the disk or bulge. We investigate whether the range of virial masses allowed by our dynamical models is compatible with constraints from the galaxy luminosity function, and find a range of parameter space that is allowed by this constraint. We conclude that rotation curves and dynamical properties of ``normal'' high surface brightness spiral galaxies appear to be consistent with standard LCDM.

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