2018/04/30 by Kyu-Hyun Chae, Mariangela Bernardi, Ravi K. Sheth · 14 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Fundamental plane (elliptical galaxies) #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Monte Carlo method #RADIUS #Scaling #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #Stellar mass #Velocity dispersion #Virial mass #Virial theorem #astro-ph.GA
paper · pdf · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aac1b9
published in The Astrophysical Journal 860(1), 81 (IOP Publishing) · ApJ, in press (32 pages in preprint style including 22 figures; Fig 21 corrected)
openalex created_date 2018/04/13 · arxiv created 2018/05/31 · openalex publication_date 2018/06/10 · arxiv updated 2018/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract We carry out spherical Jeans modeling of nearly round pure-bulge galaxies selected from the ATLAS 3D sample. Our modeling allows for gradients in the stellar mass-to-light ratio ( M ⋆ / L ) through analytic prescriptions parameterized with a “gradient strength” K introduced to accommodate any viable gradient. We use a generalized Osipkov–Merritt model for the velocity dispersion (VD) anisotropy. We produce Monte Carlo sets of models based on the stellar VD profiles under both the ΛCDM and MOND paradigms. Here, we describe the galaxy data, the empirical inputs, and the modeling procedures of obtaining the Monte Carlo sets. We then present the projected dynamical stellar mass, , within the effective radius R e , and the fundamental mass plane (FMP) as a function of K . We find the scaling of the K -dependent mass with respect to the ATLAS 3D reported mass as: with a ′ = −0.019 ± 0.012 and b ′ = −0.18 ± 0.02 (ΛCDM), or a ′ = −0.023 ± 0.014 and b ′ = −0.23 ± 0.03 (MOND), for 0 ≤ K < 1.5. The FMP has coefficients consistent with the virial expectation and only the zero-point scales with K . The median value of K for the ATLAS 3D galaxies is . We perform a similar analysis of the much larger SDSS DR7 spectroscopic sample. In this case, only the VD within a single aperture is available, so we impose the additional requirement that the VD slope be similar to that in the ATLAS 3D galaxies. Our analysis of the SDSS galaxies suggests a positive correlation of K with stellar mass.