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Title:
The PN.S Elliptical Galaxy Survey: Data Reduction, Planetary Nebula Catalog, and Basic Dynamics for NGC 3379
Authors:
Douglas, N. G.; Napolitano, N. R.; Romanowsky, A. J.; Coccato, L.; Kuijken, K.; Merrifield, M. R.; Arnaboldi, M.; Gerhard, O.; Freeman, K. C.; Merrett, H. R.; Noordermeer, E.; Capaccioli, M.
Affiliation:
AA(Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Netherlands.), AB(Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, 80131 Naples, Italy.), AC(Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Netherlands.; Departamento de Física, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile.; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK.), AD(Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Netherlands.), AE(Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, Netherlands.; University of Leiden, Netherlands.), AF(School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK.), AG(European Southern Observatory, D-85748 Garching, Germany.; Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Observatory of Turin, 10025 Pino Torinese, Italy.), AH(Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, D-85748 Garching, Germany.), AI(Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.), AJ(School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK.), AK(School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK.), AL(Dipartimento di Fisica, Università ``Federico II,'' Naples, Italy.)
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 664, Issue 1, pp. 257-276. (ApJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
07/2007
Origin:
UCP
ApJ Keywords:
Galaxies: Elliptical and Lenticular, cD, Galaxies: Individual: NGC Number: NGC 3379, Galaxies: Kinematics and Dynamics, Galaxies: Structure, ISM: Planetary Nebulae: General
DOI:
10.1086/518358
Bibliographic Code:
2007ApJ...664..257D

Abstract

We present results from Planetary Nebula Spectrograph (PN.S) observations of the elliptical galaxy NGC 3379 and a description of the data reduction pipeline. We detected 214 planetary nebulae, of which 191 are ascribed to NGC 3379 and 23 to the companion galaxy NGC 3384. Comparison with data from the literature shows that the PN.S velocities have an internal error of <~20 km s-1 and a possible offset of similar magnitude. We present the results of kinematic modeling and show that the PN kinematics is consistent with absorption-line data in the region where they overlap. The resulting combined kinematic data set, running from the center of NGC 3379 out to more than 7 effective radii (Reff), reveals a mean rotation velocity that is small compared to the random velocities and a dispersion profile that declines rapidly with radius. From a series of Jeans dynamical models we find the B-band mass-to-light ratio inside 5Reff to be 8-12 in solar units, and the dark matter fraction inside this radius to be less than 40%. We compare these and other results of dynamical analysis with those of dark matter-dominated merger simulations, finding that significant discrepancies remain, reiterating the question of whether NGC 3379 has the kind of dark matter halo that the current ΛCDM paradigm requires.

Based on observations made with the William Herschel Telescope operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.


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