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Title:
Observing the Dark Matter Density Profile of Isolated Galaxies
Authors:
Prada, Francisco; Vitvitska, Mayrita; Klypin, Anatoly; Holtzman, Jon A.; Schlegel, David J.; Grebel, Eva K.; Rix, H.-W.; Brinkmann, J.; McKay, T. A.; Csabai, I.
Affiliation:
AA(Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany.; Centro Astronómico Hispano-Alemán, Apartado 511, E-04080 Almería, Spain.; Current address: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Via Lactea, La Laguna, Tenerife, E-38205 Canary Islands, Spain; and Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Apartado 321, Santa Cruz de La Palma, E-38700 Canary Islands, Spain.), AB(Department of Astronomy, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Department 4500, Las Cruces, NM 88003.), AC(Department of Astronomy, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Department 4500, Las Cruces, NM 88003.), AD(Department of Astronomy, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, Department 4500, Las Cruces, NM 88003.), AE(Princeton University Observatory, Peyton Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544-1001.), AF(Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany.), AG(Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany.), AH(Apache Point Observatory, P.O. Box 59, Sunspot, NM 88349.), AI(Department of Physics, University of Michigan, 500 East University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.), AJ(Department of Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest, Pf. 32, H-1518, Hungary.; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3701 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218.)
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 598, Issue 1, pp. 260-271. (ApJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
11/2003
Origin:
UCP
ApJ Keywords:
Cosmology: Dark Matter, Galaxies: Dwarf, Galaxies: Halos- Galaxies: Kinematics and Dynamics, Surveys
DOI:
10.1086/378669
Bibliographic Code:
2003ApJ...598..260P

Abstract

Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), we probe the halo mass distribution by studying the velocities of satellites orbiting isolated galaxies. In a subsample that covers 2500 deg2 on the sky, we detect about 3000 satellites with absolute blue magnitudes going down to MB=-14; most of the satellites have MB=-16 to -18, comparable to the magnitudes of M32 and the Magellanic Clouds. After a careful, model-independent removal of interlopers, we find that the line-of-sight velocity dispersion of satellites declines with distance to the primary. For an L* galaxy the rms line-of-sight velocity changes from ~120 km s-1 at 20 kpc to ~60 km s-1 at 350 kpc. This decline agrees remarkably well with theoretical expectations, as all modern cosmological models predict that the density of dark matter in the peripheral parts of galaxies declines as ρDM~r-3. Thus, for the first time we find direct observational evidence of the density decline predicted by cosmological models; we also note that this result contradicts alternative theories of gravity such as modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). We also find that the velocity dispersion of satellites within 100 kpc scales with the absolute magnitude of the central galaxy as σ~L0.3 this is very close to the Tully-Fisher relation for normal spiral galaxies.
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