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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 482, Issue 4, Pages 5106-5124Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2968
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galaxies: dwarf; galaxies: irregular; galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; galaxies: spiral; dark matter
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- NASA
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We study the scaling relations between dark matter (DM) haloes and galaxy discs using 175 galaxies from the SPARC data base. We explore two cosmologically motivated DM halo profiles: the Einasto profile from DM-only simulations and the DC14 profile from hydrodynamic simulations. We fit the observed rotation curves using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method and break the disc-halo degeneracy using near-infrared photometry and Lambda CDM-motivated priors. We find that the characteristic volume density rho(s) of DM haloes is nearly constant over similar to 5 decades in galaxy luminosity. The scale radius r(s) and the characteristic surface density rho(s) center dot r(s), instead, correlate with galaxy luminosity. These scaling relations provide an empirical benchmark to cosmological simulations of galaxy formation.
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