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Current Velocity Data on Dwarf Galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 do not Constrain it to Lack Dark Matter

  • Authors: Nicolas F. Martin, Michelle L. M. Collins, Nicolas Longeard, and Erik Tollerud

2018 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 859 L5.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Mass-to-light ratio of NGC 1052-DF2 inferred from the marginalized velocity dispersion PDF of the model with contamination and for the Walker et al. (2009) mass estimator within the half-light radius (black) and the TME mass estimator of Watkins et al. (2010) favored by vD18b (red). In both cases, we infer a much less strict limit, as can be seen by the 90% confidence limits implied by our analysis (black and red limits and arrow) and that of vD18b (gray limit and arrow).

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