Bright and Dark Matter in Elliptical Galaxies: Mass and Velocity Distributions from Self-consistent Hydrodynamical Simulations

Details Bright and Dark Matter in Elliptical Galaxies: Mass and Velocity Distributions from Self-consistent Hydrodynamical Simulations Bright and Dark Matter in Elliptical Galaxies: Mass and Velocity Distributions from Self-consistent Hydrodynamical Simulations

2006-12-26

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612732v3

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.376:39-60,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

24 pages, 27 figures. Accepted by MNRAS. Some figures have degraded resolution. Minor changes to match published version. Mino

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11411.x

[Abridged] We have analysed the mass and velocity distributions of two samples of relaxed elliptical-like-objects (ELOs) identified, at z=0, in a set of self-consistent hydrodynamical simulations operating in the context of a concordance cosmological model. Our analysis shows that they are embedded in extended, massive dark matter haloes, and they also have an extended corona of hot diffuse gas. Dark matter haloes have experienced adiabatic contraction along their assembly process. The relative ELO dark- to bright-mass content and space distributions show broken homology, and they are consistent with observational results on the dark matter fraction at the central regions, as well as on the gradients of the mass-to-light ratio profiles for boxy ellipticals, as a function of their stellar masses. These results indicate that massive ellipticals miss stars at their central regions, as compared with less massive ones. Our simulations indicate that these missing baryons could be found beyond the virial radii as a hot, diffuse plasma. The projected stellar mass profiles of our ELOs can be well fit by the S\'ersic (1968) formula. Parameters of these fits reproduce observational correlations of the shape parameter with size, luminosity and velocity dispersion. The total mass density profiles show a power-law behaviour over a large r/r_{vir} interval, consistent with data on massive lens ellipticals at shorter radii. The velocity dispersion profiles show kinematical segregation, with no systematic mass dependence and a positive anisotropy, roughly independent of the radial distance outside the central regions. The consistency with observations strongly suggests that they could also describe important intrinsic characteristics of real ellipticals, as well as some of their properties recently inferred from observational data.

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