Density and Mass Distribution of the Spiral Galaxy NGC 3672 تمت دراسة توزيع الكثافة و الكتلة للمجرة الحلزونية NGC 3672
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1 Raf. J. Sci., Vol. 25, No.2 pp , Density and Mass Distribution of the Spiral Galaxy NGC 3672 Nazzeha A. Daod Mohammed K. Zeki Aziz J. Abdul-Kahader Department of Physics College of Science University of Mosul (Received 25 / 4 / 2013 ; Accepted 9 / 9 / 2013) ABSTRACT The density and mass of Spiral galaxy NGC 3672 has been studied as a function of the distance from the center of the galaxy. The mass of the three regions of the galaxy (nucleus, disk and halo) have been calculated and compared with other work. The total mass of NGC 3672 is found to be M o at a radius of 23.7 kpc. Keywords: Spiral galaxies, NGC 3672, galactic density, mass distribution, rotation curve. توزيع الكثافة و الكتلة للمجرة الحلزونية NGC 3672 الملخص تمت دراسة توزيع الكثافة و الكتلة للمجرة الحلزونية NGC 3672 كدالة للبعد عن مركز المجرة. تم احتساب الكتلة للا جزاء الثلاثة للمجرة (النواة و القرص و الهالة) ومقارنتها مع الكتلة الكلية ا خرى. بحوث.3.7 kpc للمجرة وجدت تساوي M o عند نصف قطر NGC 3672 كثافة المجرة توزيع المادة منحني الدوران. 87 الكلمات الدالة: المجرات الحلزونية INTRODUCTION The determination of galactic mass is an outstanding problem in galactic research. Different methods have been employed leading to widely different results: one method is based upon rotation curves. Astronomers construct rotation curves for the galaxies from measurements of stars and hydrogen clouds in galactic disks. The rotation curve of a galaxy is the variation in the orbital circular velocity of stars or gas clouds at different radii r, (distances from the center of the galaxy). The manner in which the velocity varies with radius reflects the distribution of mass in the galaxy. A great deal of data for the galactic rotation curves have been obtained by various methods such as using the velocities of H α, HI, CO, and Maser lines (Sofue, 1996; Deguchi et al., 2000; Maciel and Lago, 2005; Mathewson and Ford, 1996; Greisen et al., 2009). The rotation of spiral galaxies was discovered in 1914, by Slipher, who detected absorption lines in the nuclear spectra of M31 and Sombrero galaxy. Thereafter, rotation
2 88 Nazzeha A. Daod et al. curves of galaxies have been constructed by many astronomers (Sofue, 2008; Thakre et al., 2011). Most spiral galaxies have rotation curves that show solid body rotation in the very center followed by almost a constant (flat) velocity rotation in the outer parts of the galaxy. A flat rotation curve implies that the mass continues to increase linearly with radius, i.e. spiral galaxies contain very massive halos (Sofue and Rubin, 2001). Therefore, the rotation curves of spiral galaxies present a strong evidence of dark matter. Dark matter is a material that does not produce detectable amounts of light but it does have a noticeable gravitational effects. Dark matter is possibly, made of large objects like brown dwarfs, white dwarfs, black holes or small things like neutrinos and other exotic particles that have not been seen in laboratories yet. In this paper, we studied the galactic density and mass variation with the distance from the center of the galaxy NGC 3672 depending on its observed rotation curve (Sofue et al., 1999). NGC 3672 (Sc II) is an attractive multi-armed spiral galaxy undistinguished optically except for the small angular extent of its radius (Rubin et al., 1977). THEORY To find the density and mass of a spiral galaxy at an enclosed radius r, we started with the following equation (Binney and Tremaine, 1987) : where ρ(a) is the galactic density, k is the eccentricity of the galaxy and v(r) is the circular velocity at a distance (r) from the center of the galaxy. Equation (1) was solved by Daoud et al., (2009) using Abel's integral technique to get a relation for the density law of the form, Again, equation (2) was used by Daod, (2012) to study the density and mass as a function of r for spiral galaxies which show the general form of rotation curve (steep nuclear rise and high central rotation. followed by a broad maximum in the disk and then a flat rotation due to massive halo), and three different orientations of the flat part were considered (rising up slightly, almost flat and going down slightly). Daod, (2012) derived the density and the mass of spiral galaxies as a function of the distance from the center of the galaxy. Two sets of equations were derived for the density and the mass, one for the inner parts of the galaxy (r < r t ), where r t is the turn off radius, and the other set of equations are for the outer regions of the galaxy (r > r t ), so and
3 Density and Mass Distribution. 89 ρ1(r) and M1(r) are the inner density and mass of the galaxy respectively at a given radius (r<rt). The density for the outer regions of the galaxy is given by: where α, β, and γ are quantities taken from the rotation curve of the given galaxy. Using the following equation: Then, or Since the outer mass should be the mass of the outer regions only i.e. the mass within the distance between rt and r (r > rt ). Then or Again M2(r) is the mass of the outer regions (shell mass) at a distance where r > r t. The total mass of the galaxy at any radius r > r t should be And the total mass of the galaxy at rg (the total radius of the galaxy) should be,
4 90 Nazzeha A. Daod et al. CALCULATIONS AND RESULTS Observational data given in Table (1) of the rotation curve of the galaxy NGC 3672 and its plot (Fig. 1) were adopted from Sofue et al.,(1999) to calculate the density and the mass of the galaxy as a function of the distance from its center. Fig. (1) shows the observed rotation curve of NGC 3672 with two fitting lines: the line ab for the radius r<r t and the line bc for the radius r > r t. The quantities, α (the slop of the line ab), β (the slop of the line bc), r t (the turn off radius) and γ (the intersection point between the line bc and the vertical axis) were taken from ( Fig. 1) and their values tend to be, α = km/sec/kpc, β = 4.35 km/sec/ kpc, γ = 172 km/sec and r t = 2.7 kpc. The value of the eccentricity (k) is calculated from ( the flatness characteristic of spiral galaxies (Binney and Tremaine, 1987). A computer program in Quick-Basic language was constructed to calculate the density and the mass of NGC 3672 at different distances from the galactic center using the above observational quantities and the equations (3), (4), (5), (10) and (12). Calculations show that the central (inner) density of NGC 3672 is constant and has a value of (ρ 1 (r) = 1.89 M o / pc 3 ), where M o denotes one solar mass. The density of the outer regions (disk and halo) of the galaxy is much less than that of the inner regions (ρ 2 (r) < 0.09 M o / pc 3 ) and it decreases with the distance from the center of the galaxy as shown in (Fig. 2).
5 Density and Mass Distribution. 91 Our results of constant inner density and declining outer density are consistent with other works (Rubin, et al., 1977 ; Binney and Tremaine, 1987). The mass of the galaxy NGC 3672 at a radius less than the turn off radius is proportional to r 3 (equation 4). Therefore the inner mass of NGC 3672 grows up quikly with distance from the galactic center (r=0) to the turn off radius (r = r t ) reaching a value of (M 1 (r t ) = M o ). The outer mass of the galaxy NGC 3672 at a radius r > r t, is found to increase with distance Fig. (3), from the center of the galaxy, although the outer density decreases with radius Fig. (2). All rotation curves for spiral galaxies are approximately flat distances as great as r=50 kpc (Rubin et al., 1977). We adopted r g = 23.7 kpc from Rubin (1977) to calculate the Halo mass and the total mass of NGC The halo mass (M halo = M o ) is found to be more than the inner mass (M (r t ) = M o ) which confirm the existence of a massive halo and also give a big evidence for the existence of dark matter. Spiral galaxies have giant halos extending to several times the radius of luminous matter (Ostriker et al., 1974). So if the galaxy NGC 3672 extends more than 23.7 kpc then the halo mass will be much more than that calculated above.
6 92 Nazzeha A. Daod et al. Spiral galaxies are composed of four components: nucleus, bulge, disk and dark halo (Sofue, 2008). Below the calculated mass of those four components is presented. The mass of the nucleus of the galaxy NGC 3672 is calculated at a radius of 350 pc and is found to be ( M o ). The bulge mass is equal to the inner mass at r=r t and is found to be M o. Therefore NGC 3672 has a nucleus of a very small mass compared with the bulges mass. Emission lines are observed over a distance of 17.6 kpc from the center of NGC The disk radius is defined as the distance at which luminous objects can be observed, i.e. the disk radius is equal to 17.6 kpc and the calculated mass from equation (10) at this radius turns to be ( M o). The calculated halo mass ( M o ) at a radius of 23.7 kpc is a large contribution to the total mass of the galaxy ( M o ) although luminous objects are very rare in the halo. Existence of a massive halo can be explained by the presence of the dark matter in the form of non luminous large objects like brown dwarfs, white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes or small particles like neutrinos, baryons and unknown elementary particles which have not yet discovered in lab. experiments on earth (non baryonic dark matter). The total mass of the galaxy NGC 3672 ( M o ) at a radius of 23.7 kpc is within the range (1.22 ± M o ) given by Rubin et al.,(1977). Calculations also show that NGC 3672 has a nucleus of small mass and a massive halo which is consisted with that found by Rubin too. CONCLUSION In this work we calculated the density and mass of the spiral galaxy NGC 3672 at different distances from the center of the galaxy using equations derived by Daod, (2012) and the observed rotation curve from Sofue et al.,(1999). Calculations confirm that the galaxy NGC 3672 has a small nuclear mass and a massive halo. The total mass of the NGC
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8 94 Nazzeha A. Daod et al. Table 1: Rotation curve of the galaxy NGC 3672 R(kpc) V(km/s) Rkpc) V(km/s) R(kpc) V(km/s) R(kpc) V(km/s) R(kpc) V(km/s)
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