Bibcode
Erroz-Ferrer, S.; Knapen, J. H.; Leaman, R.; Díaz-García, Simón; Salo, Heikki; Laurikainen, Eija; Querejeta, Miguel; Muñoz-Mateos, Juan Carlos; Athanassoula, E.; Bosma, Albert; Comerón, Sebastien; Elmegreen, Bruce G.; Martínez-Valpuesta, I.
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 458, Issue 2, p.1199-1213
Fecha de publicación:
5
2016
Número de citas
27
Número de citas referidas
24
Descripción
We present a detailed study of the shape of the innermost part of the
rotation curves of a sample of 29 nearby spiral galaxies, based on high
angular and spectral resolution kinematic Hα Fabry-Perot
observations. In particular, we quantify the steepness of the rotation
curve by measuring its slope dRvc(0). We explore
the relationship between the inner slope and several galaxy parameters,
such as stellar mass, maximum rotational velocity, central surface
brightness (μ0), bar strength and bulge-to-total ratio.
Even with our limited dynamical range, we find a trend for low-mass
galaxies to exhibit shallower rotation curve inner slopes than high-mass
galaxies, whereas steep inner slopes are found exclusively in high-mass
galaxies. This trend may arise from the relationship between the total
stellar mass and the mass of the bulge, which are correlated among them.
We find a correlation between the inner slope of the rotation curve and
the morphological T-type, complementary to the scaling relation between
dRvc(0) and μ0 previously reported
in the literature. Although we find that the inner slope increases with
the Fourier amplitude A2 and decreases with the bar torque
Qb, this may arise from the presence of the bulge implicit in
both A2 and Qb. As previously noted in the
literature, the more compact the mass in the central parts of a galaxy
(more concretely, the presence of a bulge), the steeper the inner
slopes. We conclude that the baryonic matter dominates the dynamics in
the central parts of our sample galaxies.