Published in Reviews of Modern Physics, vol. 86, Issue 1, pp. 47-119, 2014.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3276

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GALAXY MASSES

Stéphane Courteau a, Michele Cappellari b, Roelof S. de Jong c, Aaron A. Dutton d, Eric Emsellem e, Henk Hoekstra f, L.V.E. Koopmans g, Gary A. Mamon h, Claudia Maraston i, Tommaso Treu j, Lawrence M. Widrow a


a Queen's University, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
b Sub-department of Astrophysics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK
c Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
d Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
e European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, 85748, Germany and Université Lyon 1, Observatoire de Lyon, Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 9 avenue Charles André, F-69230 Saint-Genis Laval, France
f Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9513, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
g University of Groningen, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, P.O.Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands
h Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (UMR 7095: CNRS & UPMC), 98 bis Bd Arago, F-75014 Paris, France
i University of Portsmouth, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Dennis Sciama Building, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth, UK
j University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Physics, Santa Barbara, CA


Abstract: 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 different 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


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