The SLUGGS Survey: The mass distribution in early-type galaxies within five effective radii and beyond

Abstract

We study mass distributions within and beyond 5~effective radii ($R_{\mathrm{e}}$) in 23 early-type galaxies from the SLUGGS survey, using their globular cluster (GC) kinematic data. The data are obtained with Keck/DEIMOS spectrograph, and consist of line-of-sight velocities for ~$3500$ GCs, measured with a high precision of ~15 $\mathrm{km}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$ per GC and extending out to $13R_{\mathrm{e}}$. We obtain the mass distribution in each galaxy using the tracer mass estimator of Watkins et al. and account for kinematic substructures, rotation of the GC systems and galaxy flattening in our mass estimates. The observed scatter between our mass estimates and results from the literature is less than 0.2 dex. The dark matter fraction within $5R_{\mathrm{e}}$ ($f_{\mathrm{DM}}$) increases from ~$0.6$ to ~$0.8$ for low- and high-mass galaxies, respectively, with some intermediate-mass galaxies ($M_{\ast }\sim 10^{11}{M}_{\odot }$) having low $f_{\mathrm{DM}}\sim 0.3$, which appears at odds with predictions from simple galaxy models. We show that these results are independent of the adopted orbital anisotropy, stellar mass-to-light ratio, and the assumed slope of the gravitational potential. However, the low $f_{\mathrm{DM}}$ in the ~$10^{11}{M}_{\odot }$ galaxies agrees with the cosmological simulations of Wu et al. where the pristine dark matter distribution has been modified by baryons during the galaxy assembly process. We find hints that these $M_{\ast }\sim 10^{11}{M}_{\odot }$ galaxies with low $f_{\mathrm{DM}}$ have very diffuse dark matter haloes, implying that they assembled late. Beyond $5R_{\mathrm{e}}$, the $M/L$ gradients are steeper in the more massive galaxies and shallower in both low and intermediate mass galaxies.

24 pages, 13 figures, 9 tables - Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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