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Cuspy dark matter density profiles in massive dwarf galaxies
Lauren H. Cooke, Rebecca C. Levy, Alberto D. Bolatto, Joshua D. Simon, Andrew B. Newman, Peter Teuben, Brandon D. Davey, Melvyn Wright, Elizabeth Tarantino, Laura Lenkić, Vicente Villanueva
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Rotation curves of galaxies probe their total mass distributions, including dark matter. Dwarf galaxies are excellent systems to investigate the dark matter density distribution, as they tend to have larger fractions of dark matter compared to higher mass systems. The core-cusp problem describes the discrepancy found in the slope of the dark matter density profile in the centres of galaxies (β^*) between observations of dwarf galaxies (shallower cores) and dark matter-only simulations (steeper cusps). We investigate β^* in six nearby spiral dwarf galaxies for which high-resolution CO J=1-0 data were obtained with ALMA. We derive rotation curves and decompose the mass profile of the dark matter using our CO rotation curves as a tracer of the total potential and 4.5μm photometry to define the stellar mass distribution. We find ⟨β^*⟩= 0.6 with a standard deviation of ±0.1 among the galaxies in this sample, in agreement with previous measurements in this mass range. The galaxies studied are on the high stellar mass end of dwarf galaxies and have cuspier profiles than lower mass dwarfs, in agreement with other observations. When the same definition of the slope is used, we observe steeper slopes than predicted by the FIRE and NIHAO simulations. This may signal that these relatively massive dwarfs underwent stronger gas inflows toward their centres than predicted by these simulations, that these simulations over-predict the frequency of accretion or feedback events, or that a combination of these or other effects are at work.
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