The Disk and Dark Halo Mass of the Barred Galaxy NGC 4123. I. Observations

Details The Disk and Dark Halo Mass of the Barred Galaxy NGC 4123. I. Observations The Disk and Dark Halo Mass of the Barred Galaxy NGC 4123. I. Observations

2000-08-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0008204v1

Astrophys.J.546:916-930,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted by ApJ, 16 pages, 9 figures (1 color), uses emulateapj.sty, onecolfloat.sty

Scientific paper

10.1086/318288

The non-circular streaming motions in barred galaxies are sensitive to the mass of the bar and can be used to lift the degeneracy between disk and dark matter halo encountered when fitting axisymmetric rotation curves of disk galaxies. In this paper, we present photometric and kinematic observations of NGC 4123, a barred galaxy of modest size (V_rot = 130 km/sec, L = 0.7 L_*), which reveal strong non-circular motions. The bar has straight dust lanes and an inner Lindblad resonance. The disk of NGC 4123 has no sign of truncation out to 10 scale lengths, and star-forming regions are found well outside R_25. A Fabry-Perot H-alpha velocity field shows velocity jumps of >100 km/sec at the location of the dust lanes within the bar, indicating shocks in the gas flow. VLA observations yield the velocity field of the H I disk. Axisymmetric mass models yield good fits to the rotation curve outside the bar regionfor disk I-band M/L of 2.25 or less, and dark halos with either isothermal or power-law profiles can fit the data well. In a companion paper, we model the full 2-D velocity field, including non-circular motions, to determine the stellar M/L and the mass of the dark halo.

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