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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. V. Modeling the Dynamics of M87 with the Made-to-measure Method

  • Authors: Ling Zhu, R. J. Long, Shude Mao, Eric W. Peng, Chengze Liu, Nelson Caldwell, Biao Li, John P. Blakeslee, Patrick Côté, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Patrick Durrell, Eric Emsellem, Laura Ferrarese, Stephen Gwyn, Andrés Jordán, Ariane Lançon, Simona Mei, Roberto Muñoz, and Thomas Puzia

Zhu et al. 2014 The Astrophysical Journal 792 59.

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Caption: Figure 14.

Mass profiles for the four Jeans models. For the elliptical halos, "radius" is taken to be where a,b are the major and minor axis values. The pluses represent the typical error bars at different radii for the mass profiles. The maximum mass differences between the models are ≈10%.

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