期刊
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 476, 期 4, 页码 5669-5680出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty706
关键词
Galaxy: halo; Galaxy: kinematics and dynamics; dark matter
资金
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP17K14271]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council Durham Consolidated Grant [ST/F001166/1, ST/L00075X/1, ST/P000451/1]
- BIS National E-infrastructure capital grant [ST/K00042X/1]
- STFC capital grants [ST/H008519/1, ST/K00087X/1]
- STFC DiRAC Operations grant [ST/K003267/1]
- Durham University
- STFC [ST/R002371/1, ST/L00075X/1, ST/P002293/1, ST/R000832/1, ST/P000541/1, ST/I00162X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17K14271] Funding Source: KAKEN
The spherical Jeans equation (SJE) is widely used in dynamical modelling of the Milky Way (MW) halo potential. We use haloes and galaxies from the cosmological Millennium-II simulation and hydrodynamical APOSTLE (A Project of Simulations of The Local Environment) simulations to investigate the performance of the SJE in recovering the underlying mass profiles of MW mass haloes. The best-fitting halo mass and concentration parameters scatter by 25 per cent and 40 per cent around their input values, respectively, when dark matter particles are used as tracers. This scatter becomes as large as a factor of 3 when using star particles instead. This is significantly larger than the estimated statistical uncertainty associated with the use of the SJE. The existence of correlated phase-space structures that violate the steady-state assumption of the SJE as well as non-spherical geometries is the principal source of the scatter. Binary haloes show larger scatter because they are more aspherical in shape and have a more perturbed dynamical state. Our results confirm that the number of independent phase-space structures sets an intrinsic limiting precision on dynamical inferences based on the steadystate assumption. Modelling with a radius-independent velocity anisotropy, or using tracers within a limited outer radius, result in significantly larger scatter, but the ensemble-averaged measurement over the whole halo sample is approximately unbiased.
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