The abundance of dark galaxies

Details The abundance of dark galaxies The abundance of dark galaxies

2002-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0202283v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 336 (2002) 541

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Submitted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05771.x

We show that gas in a large fraction of low mass dark matter halos may form Toomre stable disks, if angular momentum is conserved when the gas contracts. Such halos would be stable to star formation and therefore remain dark. This may potentially explain the discrepancy between the predicted and observed number of dwarf satellites in the Local Group, as well as the deviation between the predicted and the observed faint end slope of the luminosity function. The above mechanism does not require a strong variation of the baryon fraction with the virial mass of the dark halo. We show that model fits to rotation curves are also consistent with this hypothesis: none of the observed galaxies lie in the region of parameter space forbidden by the Toomre stability criterion.

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