Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-01-12
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 358 (2005) 481-502
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication by the Monthly Notices of the R.A.S
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08811.x
The stellar disc kinematics in a sample of fifteen intermediate- to late-type edge-on spiral galaxies are studied using a dynamical modeling technique. The sample covers a substantial range in maximum rotation velocity and deprojected face-on surface brightness and contains seven spirals with either a boxy- or peanut-shaped bulge. Dynamical models of the stellar discs are constructed using the disc structure from $I$-band surface photometry and rotation curves observed in the gas. The differences in the line-of-sight stellar kinematics between the models and absorption line spectroscopy are minimized using a least-squares approach. The modeling constrains the disc surface density and stellar radial velocity dispersion at a fiducial radius through the free parameter $\sqrt{M/L}$ $(\sigma_{\rm z}/\sigma_{\rm R})^{-1}$, where $\sigma_{\rm z}/\sigma_{\rm R}$ is the ratio of vertical and radial velocity dispersion and $M/L$ the disc mass-to-light ratio. For thirteen spirals a transparent model provides a good match to the mean line-of-sight stellar velocity dispersion. Models that include a realistic radiative transfer prescription confirm that the effect of dust on the observable stellar kinematics is small at the observed slit positions. We discuss possible sources of systematic error and conclude that most of these are likely to be small. The exception is the neglect of the dark halo gravity, which has probably caused an overestimate of the surface density in the case of low surface brightness discs.
der Kruit Pieter C. van
Kregel Michiel
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