Stellar dynamics provides one of the most robust ways of measuring dark-matter distributions in galaxies. We develop a novel triaxial dynamical model with the minimum assumption that the system is stationary and apply it to the MW halo stars with 6D position-velocity measured by Gaia + LAMOST. We thus robustly constrain the 3D distribution of the MW dark-matter halo. Surprisingly, we find that the MW dark-matter halo is vertically aligned with the stellar disk, and in alignment with the prominent satellite plane, this reveals a flip of the Galactic disk caused by minor mergers. Such 3D dark-matter distribution can only be uncovered for the MW, for nearby galaxies, we measure the DM mass within ~5Re for about 100 galaxies combining MaNGA IFU data and HI spectra from FAST. We will show that a large fraction of massive galaxies have significantly lower DM mass than the prediction of cosmological simulations, even extending to 5Re.
学术报告

Mapping dark matter distributions: from Milky Way to nearby galaxies
报告题目:Mapping dark matter distributions: from Milky Way to nearby galaxies
报 告 人:朱玲 研究员(上海天文台)
报告时间:2025-05-22 16:10:00
报告地点:天文楼212报告厅
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Dr. Ling Zhu has been leading a research group on galactic dynamics in Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (中国科学院上海天文台) since 09/2018. Before joining SHAO, she was a postdoc researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany (德国马普天文所) from 2013-2018. She got her Ph.D. degree at the Center for Astrophysics, Tsinghua University (清华大学天体物理中心) in 2013. She obtained her Bachelor's degree from Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing (清华大学物理系) in 2008.