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Dynamical modelling of stars and gas in NGC2974: determination of mass-to-light ratio, inclination and orbital structure by Schwarzschild's method | Davor Krajnovic
; Michele Cappellari
; Eric Emsellem
; Richard M. McDermid
; P. Tim de Zeeuw
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8 Dec 2004 | Journal: | Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 357 (2005) 1113-1133 | Subject: | astro-ph | Affiliation: | Sterrewacht Leiden, Observatoire de Lyon | Abstract: | We study the large-scale stellar and gaseous kinematics of the E4 galaxy NGC2974, based on panoramic integral-field data obtained with SAURON. We quantify the velocity fields with Fourier methods (kinemetry), and show that the large-scale kinematics is largely consistent with axisymmetry. We construct general axisymmetric dynamical models for the stellar motions using Schwarzschild’s orbit-superposition method, and compare the inferred inclination and mass-to-light ratio with the values obtained by modelling the gas kinematics. Both approaches give consistent results. However we find that the stellar models provide fairly weak constraints on the inclination. The intrinsic orbital distribution of NGC2974, which we infer from our model, is characterised by a large-scale stellar component of high angular momentum. We create semi-analytic test models, resembling NGC2974, to study the ability of Schwarzschild’s modelling technique to recover the given input parameters (mass-to-light ratio and inclination) and the distribution function. We also test the influence of a limited spatial coverage on the recovery of the distribution function (i.e. the orbital structure). We find that the models can accurately recover the input mass-to-light ratio, but we confirm that even with perfect input kinematics the inclination is only marginally constrained. This suggests a possible degeneracy in the determination of the inclination, but further investigations are needed to clarify this issue. For a given potential, we find that the analytic distribution function of our test model is well recovered by the three-integral model within the spatial region constrained by integral-field kinematics. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0412186 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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