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Dark Matter-Baryon Scaling Relations from Einasto Halo Fits to SPARC Galaxy Rotation Curves Amir Ghari, Benoit Famaey, Chervin Laporte, Hosein Haghi Dark matter-baryon scaling relations from Einasto halo fits to SPARC galaxy rotation curves Amir Ghari, Benoit Famaey, Chervin Laporte, Hosein Haghi To cite this version: Amir Ghari, Benoit Famaey, Chervin Laporte, Hosein Haghi. Dark matter-baryon scaling relations from Einasto halo fits to SPARC galaxy rotation curves. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A,EDP Sciences, 2019, 623, pp.A123. 10.1051/0004-6361/201834661. hal-02306462 HAL Id: hal-02306462 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02306462 Submitted on 5 Oct 2019 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. 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Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript no. paper ©ESO 2019 January 30, 2019 Dark matter-baryon scaling relations from Einasto halo fits to SPARC galaxy rotation curves 1, 2 1 3 2, 4 Amir Ghari , Benoit Famaey , Chervin Laporte †, and Hosein Haghi 1Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR 7550, Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France 2Department of Physics, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, 11365-9161, Zanjan, Iran 3Departement of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8P 1A1, Canada 4Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik (HISKP), Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany Received xxx; accepted yyy ABSTRACT Dark matter-baryon scaling relations in galaxies are important in order to constrain galaxy formation models. Here, we provide a modern quantitative assessment of those relations, by modelling the rotation curves of galaxies from the Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves (SPARC) database with the Einasto dark halo model. We focus in particular on the comparison between the original SPARC parameters, with constant mass-to-light ratios for bulges and disks, and the parameters for which galaxies follow the tightest radial acceleration relation. We show that fits are improved in the second case, and that the pure halo scaling relations also become tighter. We report that the density at the radius where the slope is 2 is strongly anticorrelated to this radius, and to the Einasto index. The latter is close to unity for a large number of≠ galaxies, indicative of large cores. In terms of dark matter-baryon scalings, we focus on relations between the core properties and the extent of the baryonic component, which are relevant to the cusp-core transformation process. We report a positive correlation between the core size of halos with small Einasto index and the stellar disk scale-length, as well as between the averaged dark matter density within 2 kpc and the baryon-induced rotational velocity at that radius. This finding is related to the consequence of the radial acceleration relation on the diversity of rotation curve shapes, quantified by the rotational velocity at 2 kpc. While a tight radial acceleration relation slightly decreases the observed diversity compared to the original SPARC parameters, the diversity of baryon-induced accelerations at 2 kpc is sufficient to induce a large diversity, incompatible with current hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation, while maintaining a tight radial acceleration relation. Key words. galaxies: kinematics and dynamics – galaxies: spiral – dark matter 1. Introduction tion, and because DM forms a collisionless and pressureless fluid, it is then able to collapse under gravity, providing the The nature of the dark sector of the Universe arguably rep- first potential wells in which the baryons later cool into. The resents one of the deepest mystery of modern physics. De- evolution of the DM fluid is modelled by numerical simu- spite earlier hints (e.g., Zwicky 1933), it is the flattening lations (Davis et al. 1985). DM-only (DMO) cosmological of rotation curves (RCs) of disk galaxies which provided simulations treat 100 percent of the matter in the Universe the first clean observational evidence for mass discrepan- as collisionless DM. CDM haloes simulated with DMO nu- cies in galactic systems (Bosma 1978; Rubin et al. 1978). merical models have density profiles that are well described Many different observational probes – especially on cos- to first order by the NFW profile (Navarro et al. 1996b) mological scales (e.g., Planck Collaboration et al. 2016)– with a central cusp (dlnfl/dlnr = 1 in the center, where then led to the development of the current standard cos- fl is the DM density), while observations≠ rather point to mological framework (ΛCDM), in which one needs to add large constant density cores of DM in the central parts of a non-baryonic dark matter (DM) particles to the baryonic large number (but not all) of rotationally-supported galax- content of the Universe, which can thus in principle explain ies (de Blok et al. 2001; Gentile et al. 2004). This problem arXiv:1811.06554v2 [astro-ph.GA] 29 Jan 2019 the RC shapes. of DMO simulations becomes even more stringent when re- However, while arguably very successful on large scales, alizing that galaxies residing in halos of similar maximum the current ΛCDM picture is nevertheless, at face value, fac- circular velocity display a wide range of RC shapes in the ing some challenges (e.g., Bullock & Boylan-Kolchin 2017), central parts (Oman et al. 2015). This diversity of rota- notably to explain the shapes of RCs in some galaxies. tion curve shapes is to be contrasted with the uniformity From a theoretical perspective, the standard paradigm found in the relation between the baryonic gravitational proposes that galaxies form and evolve in virialised haloes acceleration and the total gravitational acceleration (Mc- (e.g., White & Rees 1978) of cold DM (CDM). Quantum Gaugh et al. 2016; Lelli et al. 2017; Li et al. 2018a; Desmond fluctuations from the vacuum state create the seed pertur- 2017a,b). bations in the early universe which are stretched by infla- Despite the NFW profile being widely used, one has to † CITA National Fellow note that Navarro et al. (2004) and Macciò et al. (2008) Article number, page 1 of 29 A&A proofs: manuscript no. paper have proposed another model that fits the density profiles bad quality label (Q =3) in the original database, leaving of halos in DMO simulations better in the inner regions, a us with a sample of 160 galaxies. profile which had been previously introduced for the dis- The availability of near-infrared photometry allows one tribution of stellar light and mass in galaxies by Einasto to fix in principle the stellar mass-to-light ratio as it is (1965), and which does not harbour a central cusp but a known that this quantity does not vary much in that band. slope dlnfl/dlnr r1/n in the center, meaning that the Indeed, Schombert & McGaugh (2014) constructed stellar slope is indeed zeroÃ≠ very close to the nucleus. For halos of population synthesis models of disk galaxies to show that the order and below the typical mass of the Milky Way halo the stellar mass-to-light ratio does not depend strongly on in DMO simulations, the Einasto index is n 6. Neverthe- age, metallicity, or color, for a large range of models with less, as first shown by Chemin et al. (2011≥), fitting such different star formation histories. As a first step, and follow- profiles to observed rotation curves often leads to values of ing McGaugh et al. (2016), we adopt here a mass-to-light n in disagreement with DMO simulations, implying much ratio Υd =0.5M /L for disks and Υb =0.7M /L for § § § § larger cores in observations than in simulations, as expected bulges. In a subsequent paper, Li et al. (2018a, hereafter from the previously known core-cusp issue. Here we repro- L18a) adjusted, with well-chosen priors, the mass-to-light duce such a study by using the latest and most up-to-date ratio Υd for disks and Υb for bulges, distances and incli- database on galaxy rotation curves, the Spitzer Photometry nations for galaxies in the SPARC sample, showing that and Accurate Rotation Curves (SPARC) database compiled the radial acceleration relation (RAR) between the grav- by Lelli et al. (2016a). itational acceleration generated by baryons and the total Upon the completion of this manuscript, Li et al. gravitational acceleration could have a scatter as small as (2018b) presented a study on scaling relations between 0.057 dex, compatible with observational uncertainties on DM halo parameters and disc galaxy luminosities from the measured velocities themselves. As a second step, we adopt SPARC database. The authors chose two DM density pro- these parameters, such that, in both cases, only the DM file parametrisations for their exploration: the Einasto pro- halo parameters are left as free parameters. file, like us, and general (–,—,“)models(Zhao 1996)with parameters motivated by empirical relations as functions of stellar-to-halo mass described in Di Cintio et al. (2014)who 3. The Einasto profile fits analysed results from hydrodynamical cosmological simula- The Einasto halo model has been proposed by Navarro et al. tions of galaxies drawn from the MAGICC project (Brook (2004) as a density profile for CDM halos in DMO ΛCDM et al. 2012; Stinson et al. 2013). Using these models they fit simulations, and had been previously introduced for the their rotations curves through a Markov Chain Monte Carlo distribution of stellar light and mass in early-type galaxies method, taking lognormal priors on near-infrared stellar (Einasto 1965, 1968, 1969). Its density profile reads: mass-to-light ratios, Gaussian priors on the inclinations and distances as well as ΛCDM priors for the DM halos.
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