dark matter halos the dynamical basis of effective empirical models暗物质晕的动力基础有效的实证模型.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Astronomy Volume 2011, Article ID 903429, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2011/903429 Research Article Dark Matter Halos: The Dynamical Basis of Effective Empirical Models Andrea Lapi1, 2 and Alfonso Cavaliere1 1 Department of Physics, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy 2 Astrophysics Sector, SISSA/ISAS, Via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Andrea Lapi, lapi@roma2.infn.it Received 27 May 2010; Accepted 31 August 2010 Academic Editor: Alberto J. Castro-Tirado Copyright © 2011 A. Lapi and A. Cavaliere. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ´ We investigate the dynamical basis of the classic empirical models (specifically, Sersic-Einasto and generalized NFW) that are widely used to describe the distributions of collisionless matter in galaxies. We submit that such a basis is provided by our α- profiles, shown to constitute solutions of the Jeans dynamical equilibrium with physical boundary conditions. We show how to set ´ the parameters of the empirical in terms of the dynamical models; we find the empirical models, and specifically Sersic-Einasto, to constitute a simple and close approximation to the dynamical models. Finally, we discuss how these provide a useful baseline for assessing the impact of the small-scale dynamics that may modulate the de