Constraining the shape of dark matter haloes using only starlight: I. A new technique and its application to the galaxy Nube
We present a new technique to constrain the gravitational potential of a galaxy from the observed stellar mass surface density alone under a number of assumptions. It uses the classical Eddington inversion method to compute the phase-space distribution function (DF) needed for stars to reside in a given gravitational potential. In essence, each
Sánchez Almeida, Jorge et al.
Fecha de publicación:
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2025