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Title:
The Two-Component Virial Theorem and the Physical Properties of Stellar Systems
Authors:
Dantas, Christine C.; Ribeiro, André L. B.; Capelato, Hugo V.; de Carvalho, Reinaldo R.
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 528, Issue 1, pp. L5-L8. (ApJL Homepage)
Publication Date:
01/2000
Origin:
UCP
ApJ Keywords:
COSMOLOGY: THEORY, COSMOLOGY: DARK MATTER, GALAXIES: ELLIPTICAL AND LENTICULAR, CD, GALAXIES: FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS, GALAXIES: HALOS, GALAXIES: KINEMATICS AND DYNAMICS, GALAXIES: STRUCTURE
DOI:
10.1086/312415
Bibliographic Code:
2000ApJ...528L...5D

Abstract

Motivated by present indirect evidence that galaxies are surrounded by dark matter halos, we investigate whether their physical properties can be described by a formulation of the virial theorem that explicitly takes into account the gravitational potential term representing the interaction of the dark halo with the baryonic or luminous component. Our analysis shows that the application of such a ``two-component virial theorem'' not only accounts for the scaling relations displayed by, in particular, elliptical galaxies, but also for the observed properties of all virialized stellar systems, ranging from globular clusters to galaxy clusters.
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