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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