On the usage of Flaring Gas Layers to determine the Shape of Dark Matter Halos

Details On the usage of Flaring Gas Layers to determine the Shape of Dark Matter Halos On the usage of Flaring Gas Layers to determine the Shape of Dark Matter Halos

1995-05-02

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9505002v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

40 pages including 14 Postscript figures (2MByet) also available via anonymous ftp at ftp://parsifal.phys.columbia.edu/pub/oll

Scientific paper

10.1086/117545

I present a new method of deriving the shape of the dark matter (DM) halos of spiral galaxies. The method relies on the comparison of model predictions with high spectral and spatial resolution HI observations of the gas layer. The potential arising from the {\em total} mass distribution of the galaxy is used in the calculation of the vertical distribution of the gas. I developed a new algorithm to calculate the force field of an arbitrary, azimuthally symmetric, density distribution. This algorithm is used to calculate the forces due to the radially truncated stellar disk as well as of the flaring gas layer. I use a simple two-parameter family of disk-halo models which have essentially the same observed equatorial rotation curve but different vertical forces. This mass model is composed of a stellar disk with constant M/L, and a DM-halo with a given axial ratio. I approximate the radial force due to the gaseous disk, and iteratively determine the vertical force due to the global distribution of the gas. The thickness of the gaseous disk is sensitive to both the flattening of the DM-halo and the self-gravity of the gas, but not to the particular choice of disk-halo decomposition. I show that the determination of the thickness of the gas layer is not restricted to edge-on galaxies, but can be measured for moderately inclined systems as well.

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