The many reasons that the rotation curves of low-mass galaxies can fail as tracers of their matter distributions
(2023)
Journal Article
Downing, E. R., & Oman, K. A. (2023). The many reasons that the rotation curves of low-mass galaxies can fail as tracers of their matter distributions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 522(3), 3318-3336. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stad868
It is routinely assumed that galaxy rotation curves are equal to their circular velocity curves (modulo some corrections) such that they are good dynamical mass tracers. We take a visualization-driven approach to exploring the limits of the validity... Read More about The many reasons that the rotation curves of low-mass galaxies can fail as tracers of their matter distributions.