On the apparent coupling of neutral hydrogen and dark matter in spiral galaxies

Details On the apparent coupling of neutral hydrogen and dark matter in spiral galaxies On the apparent coupling of neutral hydrogen and dark matter in spiral galaxies

2000-10-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010569v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 323 (2001) 453

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 8 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04214.x

We have studied a mass model for spiral galaxies in which the dark matter surface density is a scaled version of the observed HI surface density. Applying this mass model to a sample of 24 spiral galaxies with reliable rotation curves one obtains good fits for most galaxies. The scaling factors cluster around 7, after correction for the presence of primordial helium. But for several cases different, often larger, values are found. For galaxies that can not be fitted well the discrepancy occurs at large radii and results from a fairly rapid decline of the HI surface density in the outermost regions. Because of such imperfections and in view of possible selection effects it is not possible to conclude here that there is a real coupling between HI and dark matter in spiral galaxies.

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