Dynamics of Stars and Globular Clusters in M87

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2000-08-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0008062v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Revised version accepted by ApJ: expanded Results with new mass models; 26 pages, with 12 inline Postscript figures, LaTeX, aa

Scientific paper

10.1086/320947

We examine the dynamics of the stars and globular clusters in the nearby giant galaxy M87 and constrain the mass distribution, using all the available data over a large range of radii, including higher-order moments of the stellar line-of-sight velocity distributions and the discrete velocities of over two hundred globular clusters. We introduce an extension of spherical orbit modeling methods that makes full use of all the information in the data, and provides very robust constraints on the mass models. We conclusively rule out a constant mass-to-light ratio model, and infer that the radial density profile of the galaxy's dark halo falls off more slowly than 1/r^2, suggesting that the potential of the Virgo Cluster is already dominant at r ~ 300" ~ 20 kpc.

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