9. The Outer Galactic Environment

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 396-404
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Dwarf Galaxies ◽  
Single System ◽  
Narrow Strip ◽  
Polar Ring ◽  
Ring Galaxies

One of the highlights of the study of the galactic environment is the demonstration that companions and hydrogen clouds surrounding our Galaxy form a ring-like structure similar to that surrounding external polar-ring galaxies. Probably this feature is common in giant galaxies. Dwarf galaxies may possess their own dark coronas, which fact, if confirmed, puts severe constraints on the nature of dark matter. Available evidence confirms earlier suggestions that our Galaxy with its massive corona, companions, and surrounding gas forms a single system with many mutual interactions. Most companions of our Galaxy as well as the main hydrogen streams are located in a narrow strip inclined 70° to the galactic plane.

scholarly journals To be or not to be oblate: the shape of the dark matter halo in polar ring galaxies

2014 ◽  
Vol 441 (3) ◽  
pp. 2650-2662 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. A. Khoperskov ◽  
A. V. Moiseev ◽  
A. V. Khoperskov ◽  
A. S. Saburova
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Matter Halo ◽  
Polar Ring ◽  
Ring Galaxies

scholarly journals Simulating the galactic system in interaction AM 2229-735 and the formation of its polar structure

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis F Quiroga ◽  
J C Muñoz-Cuartas ◽  
I Rodrigues ◽  
Noam I Libeskind
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Polar Structure ◽  
Polar Ring ◽  
Galactic System ◽  
Galaxy Disk ◽  
Ring Galaxies ◽  
Tidal Stream ◽  
Minor Mergers ◽  
A Minor

Abstract We study the formation of polar ring galaxies via minor mergers. We used N-body+hydrodynamics simulations to reproduce the dynamics of the observed system AM 2229-735 that is a minor merger whose interaction signals are those of a progenitor for a polar ring galaxy. We used the observational information of the system to get initial conditions for the orbit and numerical realisations of the galaxies to run the simulations. Our simulations reproduce the global characteristics of interaction observed in the system such as arms and a material bridge connecting the galaxies. As a merger remnant, we found a quasi-stable and self gravitating planar tidal stream with dark matter, stars and gas orbiting in a plane approximately perpendicular to the main galaxy disk leading in the future to a polar ring galaxy. We studied the dynamical conditions of the polar structure and found evidence suggesting that this kind of merger remnant can settle down in a disk-like structure with isothermal support, providing inspiring evidence about the process of formation of galactic disks and providing a potentially independent scenario to study the presence of dark matter in this kind of galaxies.

scholarly journals Dark Matter in the Polar Ring Spiral NGC 660

1995 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 435-435
Author(s):  
Wim Van Driel
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Polar Ring ◽  
Ring Galaxies ◽  
Dimensional Distribution

Polar ring galaxies, where rotation velocities can be measured in two orthogonal planes, are generally considered to be ideal objects for studies of the three-dimensional distribution of dark matter in galaxies.

scholarly journals Distribution of Dark Matter in Polar Ring Galaxies

1987 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 315-315
Author(s):  
Bradley C. Whitmore ◽  
Douglas B. McElroy ◽  
François Schweizer ◽  
Vera C. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Gravitational Potential ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Polar Ring ◽  
Ring Galaxies ◽  
Spherical Potential

The discovery of SO galaxies with polar rings makes it possible to directly measure the gravitational potential of a galaxy in three dimensions. Schweizer, Whitmore and Rubin (1983) find a spherical potential in the case of A0136-0801. We have observed three more polar ring galaxies using the 4 meter telescope at CTIO. The following table summarizes the results for these three systems as well as A0136-0801, and figure 1 shows an example of the data.

scholarly journals Structure and Kinematics of Polar Ring Galaxies: New Observations and Estimation of the Dark Halo Shape

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Moiseev ◽  
S. Khoperskov ◽  
A. Khoperskov ◽  
K. Smirnova ◽  
A. Smirnova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Observational Data ◽  
Dark Matter Halo ◽  
Dark Halo ◽  
Dark Matter Halos ◽  
Ionized Gas ◽  
Polar Ring ◽  
Gas Kinematics ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Ring Galaxies

AbstractThe polar ring galaxies (PRGs) represent an interesting type of peculiar systems in which the outer matter is rotating in the plane which is roughly perpendicular to the disk of the main galaxy. Despite the long-lasting study of the PRGs, the amount of observational data detailed enough is insufficient; there still remain many open questions. Among the most interesting issues, there are: estimating the flattening of dark matter halos in these systems and verifying the assumption that the most massive polar structures were formed by accretion of the matter from intergalactic filaments. The new catalog recently compiled by our team using SDSS images increased, by several times, the number of known PRGs. The current paper gives an overview of our latest results on the study of morphological and photometric structure of the PRGs. Using the stellar and ionized gas kinematics data based on spectroscopic observations with the Russian 6-m telescope, we estimate the shape of dark matter halo in individual galaxies.

scholarly journals Origin and evolution of structure and nucleosynthesis for galaxies in the local group

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (14) ◽  
pp. 1430012 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Mathews ◽  
A. Snedden ◽  
L. A. Phillips ◽  
I.-S. Suh ◽  
J. Coughlin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Local Group ◽  
Galactic Halo ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Dwarf Galaxies ◽  
Gravitational Interaction ◽  
Galactic Halos ◽  
Origin And Evolution ◽  
Spiral Density Waves ◽  
Streaming Flows

The Milky Way is the product of a complex evolution of generations of mergers, collapse, star formation, supernova and collisional heating, radiative and collisional cooling, and ejected nucleosynthesis. Moreover, all of this occurs in the context of the cosmic expansion, the formation of cosmic filaments, dark matter halos, spiral density waves, and emerging dark energy. In this review we summarize observational evidence and discuss recent calculations concerning the formation, evolution nucleosynthesis in the galaxies of the Local Group (LG). In particular, we will briefly summarize observations and simulations for the dwarf galaxies and the two large spirals of the LG. We discuss how galactic halos form within the dark matter filaments that define a super-galactic plane. Gravitational interaction along this structure leads to streaming flows toward the two dominant galaxies in the cluster. These simulations and observations also suggest that a significant fraction of the Galactic halo formed as at large distances and then arrived later along these streaming flows. We also consider the insight provided by observations and simulations of nucleosynthesis both within the galactic halo and dwarf galaxies in the LG.

Distribution of Dark Matter in Polar Ring Galaxies

1987 ◽  
pp. 315-315
Author(s):  
Bradley C. Whitmore ◽  
Douglas B. McElroy ◽  
François Schweizer ◽  
Vera C. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Polar Ring ◽  
Ring Galaxies

scholarly journals NIHAO – XXV. Convergence in the cusp-core transformation of cold dark matter haloes at high star formation thresholds

2020 ◽  
Vol 499 (2) ◽  
pp. 2648-2661
Author(s):  
Aaron A Dutton ◽  
Tobias Buck ◽  
Andrea V Macciò ◽  
Keri L Dixon ◽  
Marvin Blank ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Star Formation ◽  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Dwarf Galaxies ◽  
Dwarf Galaxy ◽  
Good Description ◽  
Good Match ◽  
Virial Mass ◽  
Density Threshold

ABSTRACT We use cosmological hydrodynamical galaxy formation simulations from the NIHAO project to investigate the response of cold dark matter (CDM) haloes to baryonic processes. Previous work has shown that the halo response is primarily a function of the ratio between galaxy stellar mass and total virial mass, and the density threshold above which gas is eligible to form stars, n[cm−3]. At low n all simulations in the literature agree that dwarf galaxy haloes are cuspy, but at high n ≳ 100 there is no consensus. We trace halo contraction in dwarf galaxies with n ≳ 100 reported in some previous simulations to insufficient spatial resolution. Provided the adopted star formation threshold is appropriate for the resolution of the simulation, we show that the halo response is remarkably stable for n ≳ 5, up to the highest star formation threshold that we test, n = 500. This free parameter can be calibrated using the observed clustering of young stars. Simulations with low thresholds n ≤ 1 predict clustering that is too weak, while simulations with high star formation thresholds n ≳ 5, are consistent with the observed clustering. Finally, we test the CDM predictions against the circular velocities of nearby dwarf galaxies. Low thresholds predict velocities that are too high, while simulations with n ∼ 10 provide a good match to the observations. We thus conclude that the CDM model provides a good description of the structure of galaxies on kpc scales provided the effects of baryons are properly captured.

scholarly journals Dwarf galaxies without dark matter: constraints on modified gravity

2020 ◽  
Vol 501 (1) ◽  
pp. 254-260
Author(s):  
Ali Rida Khalifeh ◽  
Raul Jimenez
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Modified Gravity ◽  
Virial Theorem ◽  
Dwarf Galaxies ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Gravity Models ◽  
Birkhoff Theorem ◽  
Astronomical Surveys ◽  
Stringent Test ◽  
Modified Gravity Models

ABSTRACT The discovery of 19 dwarf galaxies without dark matter (DM) provides, counterintuitively, strong support for the ΛCDM standard model of cosmology. Their presence is well accommodated in a scenario where the DM is in the form of cold dark particles. However, it is interesting to explore quantitatively what is needed from modified gravity models to accommodate the presence of these galaxies and what extra degree of freedom is needed in these models. To this end, we derive the dynamics at galaxy scales (Virial theorem) for a general class of modified gravity models. We distinguish between theories that satisfy the Jebsen–Birkhoff theorem, and those that do not. Our aim is to develop tests that can distinguish whether DM is part of the theory of gravity or a particle. The 19 dwarf galaxies discovered provide us with a stringent test for models of modified gravity. Our main finding is that there will always be an extra contribution to the Virial theorem coming from the modification of gravity, even if a certain galaxy shows very small, if not negligible, trace of DM, as has been reported recently. Thus, if these and more galaxies are confirmed as devoid (or negligible) of DM, while other similar galaxies have abundant DM, it seems interesting to find modifications of gravity to describe DM. Our result can be used by future astronomical surveys to put constraints on the parameters of modified gravity models at astrophysical scales where DM is described as such.

scholarly journals Dark matter-deficient dwarf galaxies form via tidal stripping of dark matter in interactions with massive companions

2021 ◽  
Vol 502 (2) ◽  
pp. 1785-1796
Author(s):  
R A Jackson ◽  
S Kaviraj ◽  
G Martin ◽  
J E G Devriendt ◽  
A Slyz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Galaxy Evolution ◽  
Cold Dark Matter ◽  
Dwarf Galaxies ◽  
Stellar Mass ◽  
Matter Content ◽  
Mass Relation ◽  
Potential Wells ◽  
Tidal Interactions ◽  
New Interactions

ABSTRACT In the standard ΛCDM (Lambda cold dark matter) paradigm, dwarf galaxies are expected to be dark matter-rich, as baryonic feedback is thought to quickly drive gas out of their shallow potential wells and quench star formation at early epochs. Recent observations of local dwarfs with extremely low dark matter content appear to contradict this picture, potentially bringing the validity of the standard model into question. We use NewHorizon, a high-resolution cosmological simulation, to demonstrate that sustained stripping of dark matter, in tidal interactions between a massive galaxy and a dwarf satellite, naturally produces dwarfs that are dark matter-deficient, even though their initial dark matter fractions are normal. The process of dark matter stripping is responsible for the large scatter in the halo-to-stellar mass relation in the dwarf regime. The degree of stripping is driven by the closeness of the orbit of the dwarf around its massive companion and, in extreme cases, produces dwarfs with halo-to-stellar mass ratios as low as unity, consistent with the findings of recent observational studies. ∼30 per cent of dwarfs show some deviation from normal dark matter fractions due to dark matter stripping, with 10 per cent showing high levels of dark matter deficiency (Mhalo/M⋆ < 10). Given their close orbits, a significant fraction of dark matter-deficient dwarfs merge with their massive companions (e.g. ∼70 per cent merge over time-scales of ∼3.5 Gyr), with the dark matter-deficient population being constantly replenished by new interactions between dwarfs and massive companions. The creation of these galaxies is therefore a natural by-product of galaxy evolution and their existence is not in tension with the standard paradigm.

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