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Investigating the Origins of Dark Matter Halo Density Profiles

  • Authors: Liliya L. R. Williams, Arif Babul, and Julianne J. Dalcanton

Williams, Babul, & Dalcanton 2004 The Astrophysical Journal 604 18.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 5.

Points with error bars are the high‐resolution rotation curves of LSB galaxies taken from de Blok & Bosma (2002). The dashed lines are NFW fits obtained by adjusting one parameter: c varies between 13.5 and 17 for these galaxies. The solid lines are our halos with tangentially oriented velocity ellipsoids: ﹩\zeta _{0}=20^{\circ }﹩ for NGC 5750 and NGC 100, and ﹩\zeta _{0}=50^{\circ }﹩ for NGC 1560 and NGC 5023. The dotted curve in the top left panel represents our halo with a spherical velocity ellipsoid, i.e., ﹩\zeta _{0}=90^{\circ }﹩. See § 4.7 for details.

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