Constraining the NFW Potential with Observations and Modeling of LSB Galaxy Velocity Fields

Details Constraining the NFW Potential with Observations and Modeling of LSB Galaxy Velocity Fields Constraining the NFW Potential with Observations and Modeling of LSB Galaxy Velocity Fields

Publishing date

2008-10-28

URL

arxiv.org/abs/0810.5118v1

Journals

Astrophys.J.692:1321-1332,2009

Science

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Field

Astrophysics

Additional info

Accepted for publication in ApJ; 15 pages, 13 color figures; High resolution version at http://www.astro.umd.edu/~kuzio/PAPERS

Type

Scientific paper

Digital Object Identifier

10.1088/0004-637X/692/2/1321

Abstract

We model the NFW potential to determine if, and under what conditions, the NFW halo appears consistent with the observed velocity fields of low surface brightness (LSB) galaxies. We present mock DensePak IFU velocity fields and rotation curves of axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric potentials that are well-matched to the spatial resolution and velocity range of our sample galaxies. We find that the DensePak IFU can accurately reconstruct the velocity field produced by an axisymmetric NFW potential and that a tilted-ring fitting program can successfully recover the corresponding NFW rotation curve. We also find that non-axisymmetric potentials with fixed axis ratios change only the normalization of the mock velocity fields and rotation curves and not their shape. The shape of the modeled NFW rotation curves does not reproduce the data: these potentials are unable to simultaneously bring the mock data at both small and large radii into agreement with observations. Indeed, to match the slow rise of LSB galaxy rotation curves, a specific viewing angle of the non-axisymmetric potential is required. For each of the simulated LSB galaxies, the observer's line-of-sight must be along the minor axis of the potential, an arrangement which is inconsistent with a random distribution of halo orientations on the sky.

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