Dark Matter Halos of Disk Galaxies: Constraints from the Tully-Fisher Relation

Abstract

We investigate structural properties of dark matter halos of disk galaxies in LCDM cosmology, using a well-defined sample of 81 disk-dominated galaxies from the SDSS redshift survey. We model the mass-velocity and fundamental plane relations of these galaxies, which are constructed from the galaxy stellar mass, disk scale length, and optical Halpha rotation velocity at 2.2 scale lengths. We calculate a sequence of model galaxy populations, defined by the distribution of the stellar disk-to-total mass fraction, m_d. We include the effect of adiabatic contraction of dark matter halos in response to condensation of baryons. We find that models with constant m_d underpredict the intrinsic scatter of the TF and FP relations and predict an (unobserved) strong correlation between TF residuals. Introducing a scatter of disk mass fractions and allowing the mean value m_d to scale with the stellar surface density significantly improves observational match of both the slope and intercept of the TF relation and reduces the predicted residual correlation enough to be consistent with the data. Our best-fit models with a Kroupa stellar IMF over-produce the galaxy stellar mass function and predict the virial r-band mass-to-light ratios, M_vir/L_r, systematically lower than those inferred from galaxy-galaxy weak lensing and satellite dynamics. We investigate three possible solutions to these problems: (1) ignoring the effects of adiabatic contraction, (2) adopting a ``light'' stellar IMF, or (3) considering the lower halo concentrations predicted for a low cosmological power spectrum normalization. Any of these solutions yields acceptable residual correlations and relieves most of the observational tension between the TF relation and the galaxy stellar mass function (abridged).

20 pages, submitted to ApJ

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