Constraining The Milky Way Mass With Its Hot Gaseous Halo
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS(2020)
摘要
We propose a novel method to constrain the Milky Way (MW) mass M-vir with its corona temperature observations. For a given corona density profile, one can derive its temperature distribution assuming a generalized equilibrium model with nonthermal pressure support. While the derived temperature profile decreases substantially with radius, the X-ray-emission-weighted average temperature, which depends most sensitively on M-vir, is quite uniform toward different sight lines, consistent with X-ray observations. For a Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) total matter distribution, the corona density profile should be cored, and we constrain M-vir = (1.19-2.95) x 10(12) M-circle dot. For a total matter distribution contributed by an NFW dark matter profile and central baryons, the corona density profile should be cuspy and M-vir,(dm) = (1.34-5.44) x 10(12)M(circle dot). Nonthermal pressure support leads to even higher values of Mvir, while a lower MW mass may be possible if the corona is accelerating outward. This method is independent of the total corona mass, its metallicity, and temperature at very large radii.
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Milky Way mass, X-ray astronomy, Circumgalactic medium, Hydrodynamics, Galaxy dark matter halos, the Milky Way, Galaxy masses
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