71 galaxy-rotation-curve questions.

3 Galaxy Rotation Speeds and General Relativity

Is it true that the predictions from the General Theory of Relativity don’t match the observations of galaxy rotation speeds, and that this then started the search for dark matter? Is it only the ...

3 How are velocity and dispersion maps of galaxies made?

How can I get the velocity dispersion and velocity maps of galaxies given 3D data cubes obtained using an integral field spectrograph?

-1 Dark matter or Misunderstanding: Is it possible that the dark matter is simply missed variables in the math?

Is it possible that the dark matter is simply missed variables in the math? I am not a physicist but examples might include: effects of planetary and galaxy rotation, electromagnetic fields, ...

3 “Mass Discrepancy-Acceleration Relation” in ΛCDM Paradigm

Rotation curves of galaxies seem to require more mass than observed - the conventional solution is the introduction of Dark Matter. Reading some articles on this topic (in particular a recent ...

2 Do the arms of a spiral galaxy spin around like a candy bar in long spirals?

Because the arms of a spiral galaxy have a cylindrical-linear center, perhaps they have a cyilindrical rotation around their center same as a vortex of smoke? Have similar movements within galaxies ...

7 Does the dark matter halo rotate with the galaxy?

If the dark matter halo is stationary related to the arms of the galaxy then tidal effects should slow the galaxy rotation. If it rotates with the normal matter in the galaxy then shouldn't it ...

16 How did we 'discover' dark matter? [closed]

I'm an astrophysics student and I've been researching this topic and there is one point that keeps eluding me. How did the scientific community realize that there had to be dark matter in the ...

2 How do we know that galaxies are not in the process of flying apart?

A major reason for believing in the existence of dark matter is that the stars in the outer regions of galaxies are moving too fast to remain bound to their galaxies, given only the estimated mass of ...

1 Mass-to-light ratio and rotation curve from brightness profile

This should probably be basic but I've been looking for days and I can't find how to (I'm probably over complicating, but still). I want to calculate a rotation curve for some spiral galaxies. From ...

-1 Can there be forces between three things? [closed]

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In all the physics I know forces are always between pairs of things. Gravity is between pairs of masses, so is electrostatic repulsion, so are the strong and weak forces as far as I understand them (...

What is the meaning of 'systemic velocity' of galaxies?

I came across the term systemic velocities of galaxies. Can you please explain what it means?

-1 What models do physicists use in predicting the movement of stars in a galaxy that has lead to a wide-spread conviction that Dark Matter exists?

My (possibly poor) understanding of the argument for Dark Matter's existence is that stars in a large galaxy move more slowly than "they should" (presumably due to either some simplified model of the ...

1 How do you model an NFW Dark Matter Halo?

I am trying to reproduce the results of Sofue's 2016 paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05752). I'm able to use least squares minimization to model the bulge and disk effectively, but I get into ...

1 Can Kepler's third law be used to find the mass of a black hole without incorporating dark matter?

Ignoring dark matter, Kepler's third law would yield different results for the mass of the black hole depending on the distance of the orbiting star from the black hole. Is it possible to make the ...

3 Is there a correlation between a galaxy's rotation curve and the characteristics of its black hole?

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Do galaxies with larger mass black holes have different galaxy rotation curves than those with smaller black holes? What about other characteristics, such as whether they are spinning or dormant etc?

1 Relativity and Galaxy Rotation Speed

If time travels slower nearer gravity wells, why can't the galaxy rotation speeds being faster on the outer edges than the inner areas be explained by relativity? What necessitates dark matter?

3 Relationship between orbital radius, mass, and orbital velocity

I have a question regarding the relationship between a body's orbital radius, mass, and orbital velocity. I understand that there is the equation $V = \sqrt{\frac{GM}{R}}$, where $V$ is the orbital ...

-3 What is the percentage of dark matter in the galaxy? [closed]

Assuming the mass of the stars and gas within NGC 5055 is $8\times10^{10} M_{sun}$. What is the percentage of the dark matter in it?

8 Why doesn't the dark matter halo co-rotate with the luminous disk? What keeps it from falling into the center if not angular momentum?

Why doesn't the dark matter halo co-rotate with the luminous disk? What keeps it from falling into the center if not angular momentum?

4 Is there an alternative to dark matter?

I've been reading about dark matter. I understood that its existence is inferred by the discrepancy between the gravity exerted by a galaxy (total mass) and the movement of the stars that compose it. ...

1 Why acceleration at the edge of the galaxy is lesser?

I was going through Modified Inertia using the Hubble Scale Casimir effect the theory is proposed by M.E. McCulloch. The theory says it can explain different anomalies such as EmDrive, Galactic edges,...

3 Questions about shape of dark matter orbits in spiral galaxies

Could someone please describe what the proposed (calculated) orbits of dark matter are? Are they exactly as those of baryonic matter (i.e. spiral), or are they different from those of baryonic matter? ...

-1 Dark matter from speed of stars in outer galaxy

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My understanding is that the first evidence of dark matter came from measurements of the orbital velocity of stars in the galaxy. In theory, the further out from the centre, the slower the stars ...

3 What happens at the edge of a galaxy

What happens at the edge (around the optical radius) of a galaxy when it has a flat rotation curve? After some length scale: does the velocity start to decrease or is there a phase-transition-like ...

Where is the mass and gravitational influence of dark matter? [duplicate]

I'll have to ask an elementary level question about orbital motion and the mass/gravity that influences it. In solar systems, the large mass of the sun pulls on the planets and we see the velocity of ...

2 The speed of the outer stars of galaxies [duplicate]

The stars on the outer perimeter of galaxies rotate faster than expected. Could this be because they are traveling faster in time than the center where the black hole is? I mean due to extreme ...

Galaxy equillibrium

I know this is a very dumb question, but, to maintain a galaxy as a bounded system, the total energy and the total angular momentum of every particle component of the galaxy (suppose made of gas and ...

2 Calculating orbital velocities of stars in disk galaxies

In Barbara Ryden's Intro to Cosmology, chapter 8.2, she derives and equation for the radial velocities of stars around the center of their disk galaxy. First, she states that when we look at disk ...

3 Cold dark matter halos and cusps

Cold dark matter is one of the preferred candidates for dark matter. Yet, models such as the NFW and isothermal predict that halos will contain cusps, where the density tends towards infinity, despite ...

71 If dark matter only interacts with gravity, why doesn't it all clump together in a single point?

I'm a complete layperson. As I understand, dark matter theoretically only interacts with the gravitational force, and doesn't interact with the other three fundamental forces: weak nuclear force, ...

7 About the hump on galaxy rotation curves

The past days I have been studying the rotation curves of disk galaxies and I am currently trying to understand how we can extract information about the dark matter of a galaxy by looking its rotation ...

1 Galactic Rotation Curve Calculation

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Can anyone give the list of formulas used for plotting the Galactic Rotation Curves? I mean, is there only the formula for linear velocity or is the formula for the gravitational potential also ...

-3 Is dark matter really there? [closed]

Dark matter has been proposed to explain two phenomena - Uniform velocity curve of spiral galaxies Observed gravitational lensing. If something explains these two, would we still need dark matter? ...

5 How to explain two possible problems with dark matter

Can someone please answer how dark matter theory resolves/eliminates these two possible problems Dark matter, per my understanding, due to gravity, keeps moving, and due to its non-interactive nature,...

Data for Tully-Fisher Relation

I have a derivation of the Tully-Fisher Relation and I'd like to test it against some real data. Does anyone know of a catalog where I can find the maximum velocity ($V_{flat}$) and radius (of \$V_{...