Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-09-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
35 pages, 21 figures. Accept for publication in Astronomical Journal
Scientific paper
This study presents the mass distribution for a sample of 18 late-type galaxies in nine Hickson Compact Groups. We used rotation curves from high resolution 2D velocity fields of Fabry-Perot observations and J-band photometry from the 2MASS survey, in order to determine the dark halo and the visible matter distributions. The study compares two halo density profile, an isothermal core-like distribution and a cuspy one. We also compare their visible and dark matter distributions with those of galaxies belonging to cluster and field galaxies coming from two samples: 40 cluster galaxies of Barnes et al (2004) and 35 field galaxies of Spano et al. (2008). The central halo surface density is found to be constant with respect to the total absolute magnitude similar to what is found for the isolated galaxies. This suggests that the halo density is independent to galaxy type and environment. We have found that core-like density profiles fit better the rotation curves than cuspy-like ones. No major differences have been found between field, cluster and compact group galaxies with respect to their dark halo density profiles.
Amram Ph.
Balkowski Ch.
de Oliveira Mendes Cl.
Plana Henri
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