Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-02-21
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 321 (2001) 155
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages, 13 figures, uses mn.sty and epsf.tex, revised version accepted by MNRAS (results for anisotropic models added, compa
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04007.x
Using the standard dynamical theory of spherical systems, we calculate the properties of spherical galaxies and clusters whose density profiles obey the universal form first obtained in high resolution cosmological N-body simulations by Navarro, Frenk & White. We adopt three models for the internal kinematics: isotropic velocities, constant anisotropy and increasingly radial Osipkov-Merritt anisotropy. Analytical solutions are found for the radial dependence of the mass, gravitational potential, velocity dispersion, energy and virial ratio and we test their variability with the concentration parameter describing the density profile and amount of velocity anisotropy. We also compute structural parameters, such as half-mass radius, effective radius and various measures of concentration. Finally, we derive projected quantities, the surface mass density and line-of-sight as well as aperture velocity dispersion, all of which can be directly applied in observational tests of current scenarios of structure formation. On the mass scales of galaxies, if constant mass-to-light is assumed, the NFW surface density profile is found to fit well Hubble-Reynolds laws. It is also well fitted by Sersic R^(1/m) laws, for m ~ 3, but in a much narrower range of m and with much larger effective radii than are observed. Assuming in turn reasonable values of the effective radius, the mass density profiles imply a mass-to-light ratio that increases outwards at all radii.
Lokas Ewa L.
Mamon Gary A.
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