Mass density slope of elliptical galaxies from strong lensing and resolved stellar kinematics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, ISSN: 1365-2966, Vol: 475, Issue: 2, Page: 2403-2414
2018
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Article Description
We discuss constraints on the mass density distribution (parametrized as ρ αr) in early-type galaxies provided by strong lensing and stellar kinematics data. The constraints come from mass measurements at two 'pinch' radii. One 'pinch' radius r = 2.2R is defined such that the Einstein (i.e. aperture) mass can be converted into the spherical mass almost independently of the mass-model. Another 'pinch' radius r = R is chosen so that the dynamical mass, derived from the line-of-sight velocity dispersion, is least sensitive to the anisotropy of stellar orbits. We verified the performance of this approach on a sample of simulated elliptical galaxies and on a sample of 15 SLACS lens galaxies at 0.01 ≤ z ≤ 0.35, which have already been analysed in Barnabè et al. by the self-consistent joint lensing and kinematic code. For massive simulated galaxies, the density slope γ is recovered with an accuracy of~13 per cent, unless r and r happen to be close to each other. For SLACS galaxies, we found good overall agreement with the results of Barnabè et al. with a sample-averaged slope γ = 2.1 ± 0.05. Although the two-pinch-radii approach has larger statistical uncertainties, it is much simpler and uses only few arithmetic operations with directly observable quantities.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85045427927&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty018; https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/475/2/2403/4795316; http://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-pdf/475/2/2403/23730110/sty018.pdf; https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty018
Oxford University Press (OUP)
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