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2015MNRAS.452L..21S - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 452, L21-L25 (2015/September-1)

Are the total mass density and the low-mass end slope of the IMF anticorrelated?

SPINIELLO C., BARNABE M., KOOPMANS L.V.E. and TRAGER S.C.

Abstract (from CDS):

We conduct a detailed lensing, dynamics and stellar population analysis of nine massive lens early-type galaxies (ETGs) from the X-Shooter Lens Survey (XLENS). Combining gravitational lensing constraints from HST imaging with spatially-resolved kinematics and line-indices constraints from Very Large Telescope (VLT) X-Shooter spectra, we infer the low-mass slope and the low cut-off mass of the stellar initial mass function (IMF): x_250=2.37^+0.12_-0.12 and M_low, 250= 0.131^+0.023_-0.026 M_☉, respectively, for a reference point with σ{sstarf} ≡ 250 km/s and Reff ≡ 10 kpc. All the XLENS systems are consistent with an IMF slope steeper than Milky Way-like. We find no significant correlations between IMF slope and any other quantity, except for an anticorrelation between total dynamical mass density and low-mass IMF slope at the 87 percent CL [dx/dlog(ρ) = -0.19^+0.15_-0.15]. This anticorrelation is consistent with the low-redshift lenses found by Smith et al. that have high velocity dispersions and high stellar mass densities but surprisingly shallow IMF slopes.

Abstract Copyright: © 2015 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society (2015)

Journal keyword(s): gravitational lensing: strong - galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD - galaxies: formation - galaxies: kinematics and dynamics - galaxies: structure - dark matter

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