Mapping spherical potentials with discrete radial velocities

Details Mapping spherical potentials with discrete radial velocities Mapping spherical potentials with discrete radial velocities

May 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993apj...409...75m&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 409, no. 1, p. 75-90.

Statistics

Computation

53

Celestial Mechanics, Galactic Clusters, Gravitational Fields, Mass To Light Ratios, Radial Velocity, Virial Theorem, Dark Matter, Line Of Sight, Spatial Distribution, Stellar Systems

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The present technique for deriving a hot stellar system's gravitational potential from line-of-sight velocity data overcomes the indeterminacy of mass estimates by fitting the full distribution of radial velocities. The technique also obviates the computation of velocity moments, and places narrower constraints on the matter distribution inferrable from the projected velocity dispersion and number density profiles alone. The algorithm is used to infer the distribution of dark matter near the center of the Coma galaxy cluster.

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