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Spatially-resolved stellar kinematics of the ultra diffuse galaxy Dragonfly 44. I. Observations, kinematics, and cold dark matter halo fits

Authors :
Aaron J. Romanowsky
Asher Wasserman
Jean P. Brodie
Matt Matuszewski
Charlie Conroy
Christopher Martin
Roberto Abraham
Shany Danieli
Alexa Villaume
Duncan A. Forbes
Pieter van Dokkum
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
arXiv, 2019.

Abstract

We present spatially-resolved stellar kinematics of the well-studied ultra diffuse galaxy (UDG) Dragonfly 44, as determined from 25.3 hrs of observations with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager. The luminosity-weighted dispersion within the half-light radius is $\sigma_{1/2}=33^{+3}_{-3}$ km/s. There is no evidence for rotation, with $V/\sigma<br />Comment: Accepted to ApJ. Figure 7 shows off the capabilities of KCWI. The key observational result, the radial dispersion profile, is shown in Fig. 14. Figure 16 demonstrates the aperture-dependence of the M/L ratio. Figs 17 and 18 show fits to NFW profiles and Di Cintio cored profiles. People interested in the variation of the night sky spectrum might enjoy Figure 3!

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....d2a733cbae9e1df85b232f1be557ae96
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1904.04838