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Scaling Laws for Dark Matter Halos in Late-Type and Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 April 2015

John Kormendy
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin, 2515 Speedway, Mail Stop C1400, Austin, Texas 78712-1205, USA, email: kormendy@astro.as.utexas.edu; Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, D-85748 Garching-bei-München, Germany; Universitäts-Sternwarte, Scheinerstrasse 1, D-81679 München, Germany;
K. C. Freeman
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mount Stromlo Observatory, The Australian National University, Cotter Road, Weston Creek, Canberra, ACT 2611, Australia, email: Kenneth.Freeman@anu.edu.au
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Dark matter (DM) halos of Sc–Im galaxies satisfy structural scaling laws analogous to the fundamental plane relations for elliptical galaxies. Halos in less luminous galaxies have smaller core radii rc, higher central densities ρ^, and smaller central velocity dispersions σ. If dwarf spheroidal (dSph) and dwarf Magellanic irregular (dIm) galaxies lie on the extrapolations of these correlations, then we can estimate their baryon loss relative to that of Sc–Im galaxies. We find that, if there had been no enhanced baryon loss relative to Sc–Im galaxies, typical dSph and dIm galaxies would be brighter by ΔMB ≃ -4.0 mag and ΔMB ≃ -3.5 mag, respectively. Instead, the galaxies lost or retained as gas (in dIm galaxies) baryons that could have formed stars. Also, dSph and dIm galaxies have DM halos that are more massive than we thought, with σ ~ 30 km s−1 or circular-orbit rotation velocities Vcirc ~ 42 km s−1. Comparison of DM and visible matter parameter correlations confirms that, at MV ≳ -18, dSph and dIm galaxies form a sequence of decreasing baryon-to-DM mass ratios in smaller dwarfs. We show explicitly that galaxy baryon content goes to (almost) zero at Vcirc ≲ 42 ± 4 km s−1, in agreement with Vcirc as found from our estimate of baryon depletion. Our results suggest that there may be a large population of DM halos that are dark and undiscovered. This helps to solve the problem that the initial fluctuation spectrum of cold dark matter predicts more dwarf galaxies than we observe.

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