TITLE:
Dark Matter Density Profiles of Selected Spiral Galaxies
AUTHORS:
Alberto Sadun, Brittany Salmon, Conor Evans, Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi
KEYWORDS:
Dark Matter Density, Galactic Rotation Curves, Spiral Galaxies, NGC 2841, NGC 4527, NGC 4945, NGC 3198
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
Vol.14 No.3,
August
19,
2024
ABSTRACT: Understanding the dark matter distribution throughout a galaxy can provide insight into its elusive nature. Numerous density profiles, such as the Navarro, Frenk and White model, have been created in an attempt to study this distribution through analyzing orbital velocities of luminous matter and modeling dark matter distributions to explain these observations. However, we are interested in a simple model to consider the significant fluctuations in rotation curves at larger radii. Therefore, our model is much simpler compared to those previously mentioned. Our model used all the observational data available for four selected galactic rotation curves. These data present a significant variation in the orbital velocity of matter at the same distances. By running real observational data through our model, we show that the density of the dark matter within them shows real complex structure, which is not suggested by other computational models. Our aim of this paper is to model this structure and then speculate as to the cause and implications of these density fluctuations.