W. Wang
What to expect from dynamical modelling of galactic haloes II: the spherical Jeans equation
Wang, W.; Han, J.; Cole, S.; More, S.; Frenk, C.; Schaller, M.
Authors
J. Han
Professor Shaun Cole shaun.cole@durham.ac.uk
Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmology
S. More
Professor Carlos Frenk c.s.frenk@durham.ac.uk
Professor
M. Schaller
Abstract
The spherical Jeans equation (SJE) is widely used in dynamical modelling of the Milky Way (MW) halo potential. We use haloes and galaxies from the cosmological Millennium-II simulation and hydrodynamical APOSTLE simulations to investigate the performance of the SJE in recovering the underlying mass profiles of MW mass haloes. The best-fitting halo mass and concentration parameters scatter by 25% and 40% around their input values, respectively, when dark matter particles are used as tracers. This scatter becomes as large as a factor of 3 when using star particles instead. This is significantly larger than the estimated statistical uncertainty associated with the use of the SJE. The existence of correlated phase-space structures that violate the steady state assumption of the SJE as well as non-spherical geometries are the principal sources of the scatter. Binary haloes show larger scatter because they are more aspherical in shape and have a more perturbed dynamical state. Our results confirm that the number of independent phase-space structures sets an intrinsic limiting precision on dynamical inferences based on the steady state assumption. Modelling with a radius-independent velocity anisotropy, or using tracers within a limited outer radius, result in significantly larger scatter, but the ensemble-averaged measurement over the whole halo sample is approximately unbiased.
Citation
Wang, W., Han, J., Cole, S., More, S., Frenk, C., & Schaller, M. (2018). What to expect from dynamical modelling of galactic haloes II: the spherical Jeans equation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 476(4), 5669-5680. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty706
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 11, 2018 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 15, 2018 |
Publication Date | Jun 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Apr 5, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 6, 2018 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Print ISSN | 0035-8711 |
Electronic ISSN | 1365-2966 |
Publisher | Royal Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 476 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 5669-5680 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty706 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1363046 |
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