Rotation curve fitting and its fatal attraction to cores in realistically simulated galaxy observations

We study the role of systematic effects in observational studies of the cusp-core problem under the minimum disc approximation using a suite of high-resolution (25-pc softening length) hydrodynamical simulations of dwarf galaxies. We mimic realistic kinematic observations and fit the mock rotation c...

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Main Authors: Pineda, Juan C. B. (Author) , Hayward, Christopher C. (Author) , Springel, Volker (Author) , Medes de Oliveira, Claudia (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Year: 2017, Volume: 466, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-87
ISSN:1365-2966
DOI:10.1093/mnras/stw3004
Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw3004
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Author Notes:Juan C.B. Pineda, Christopher C. Hayward, Volker Springel and Claudia Mendes de Oliveira

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