Modeling Nearly Spherical Pure-Bulge Galaxies with a Stellar Mass-to-Light Ratio Gradient under the $\Lambda$CDM and MOND Paradigms: II. The Orbital Anisotropy of Slow Rotators within the Effective Radius

Abstract

We investigate the anisotropy of the stellar velocity dispersions within the effective radius, $R_{\mathrm{e}}$, in 24 ATLAS${}^{3D}$ pure-bulge galaxies, 16 of which are kinematic slow rotators (SRs). We allow the spherical anisotropy parameter $\beta$ to be radially varying and allow a radial gradient in the stellar mass-to-light ratio ($M_{\star }/L$) through the parameter $K$ introduced earlier. The median anisotropy for SRs depends on $K$ as follows: $⟨{\beta }_{\mathrm{m}}⟩=a+bK$ with $a=0.19\pm 0.05$, $b=-0.13\pm 0.07$ ($\Lambda$CDM) or $a=0.21\pm 0.05$, $b=-0.26\pm 0.08$ (MOND), where ${\beta }_{\mathrm{m}}$ refers to the radially averaged quantity. Under the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm this scaling is tied to a scaling of $⟨f_{\mathrm{DM}}⟩=(0.16\pm 0.03)+(0.31\pm 0.06)K$, where $f_{\mathrm{DM}}$ refers to the DM fraction within a sphere of $r=R_{\mathrm{e}}$. For $K=0$ (constant $M_{\star }/L$), we obtain radially biased results with $⟨{\beta }_{\mathrm{m}}⟩\approx 0.2$ consistent with previous results. However, marginalizing over $0<K<1.5$ yields $⟨{\beta }_{\mathrm{m}}⟩=0.06_{-0.14}^{+0.11}$ with $⟨f_{\mathrm{DM}}⟩=0.35\pm 0.08$: isotropy is preferred. This isotropy hides the fact that ${\beta }_{\mathrm{m}}$ is correlated with kinematic features such as counter rotating cores (CRCs), kinematically distinct cores (KDCs), and low-level velocities (LVs): SRs with LVs are likely to be radially biased while SRs with CRCs are likely to be tangentially biased, and SRs with KDCs are intermediate. Existing cosmological simulations allow us to understand these results qualitatively in terms of their dynamical structures and formation histories although there exist quantitative tensions. More realistic cosmological simulations, particularly allowing for $M_{\star }/L$ gradients, may be required to better understand SRs.

arXiv comment11 figures, 3 tables, ApJ, accepted for publication

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