The dwarf galaxy DDO 47 as a dark matter laboratory: testing cusps hiding in triaxial halos

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2005-06-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0506538v4

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters, substantial changes from original version

Scientific paper

10.1086/498939

We present an analysis of high resolution HI data of the dwarf galaxy DDO 47, aimed at testing the hypothesis that dark halo triaxiality might induce non-circular motions resulting in rotation curves best fitted by cored halos, even if the dark matter halo is intrinsically cuspy. This hypothesis could be invoked in order to reconcile the predictions of the standard LambdaCDM theory with the rotation curves of disk galaxies. DDO 47 is an ideal case to test this hypothesis because it has a very regular velocity field, its rotation curve is best fitted by a cored halo and a NFW halo is inconsistent with the data. We analysed the velocity field through the higher-order harmonic terms in order to search for kinematical signatures of alleged non-circular motions needed to "hide" a cusp: the result is that globally non-circular motions are at a level of 2-3 km/s, and they are more likely to be associated to the presence of some spiral structure than to a global elongated potential (e.g. a triaxial halo). These non-circular motions are far from being sufficient to account for the discrepancy with the LambdaCDM predictions. We therefore conclude that the dark matter halo around the dwarf galaxy DDO 47 is truly cored and that a cusp cannot be hidden by non-circular motions.

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