Galaxy Masses: A Review

By S. Courteau, M. Cappellari, R. D. de Jong, A. Dutton, Eric Emsellem, H. Hoekstra, Leon V. E. Koopmans, G. Mamon, C. Maraston, T. Treu and 1 more. 2013

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Galaxy masses play a fundamental role in our understanding of structure formation models. This review addresses the variety and reliability of mass estimators that pertain to stars, gas, and dark matter. The dierent sections on masses from stellar populations, dynamical masses of gas-rich and gas-poor galaxies, with some attention paid to our Milky Way, and masses from weak and strong lensing methods, all provide review material on galaxy masses in a self-consistent manner. Keywords: galaxies: dark matter | galaxies: evolution | galaxies: formation

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation

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• The old Nuclear Star Cluster in the Milky Way (2014, background): “The inferred range is consistent with values expected for mostly old, solar metallicity populations with normal IMF (e.g., Courteau et al. 2013).”