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      Tidal stripping as a possible origin of the ultra diffuse galaxy lacking dark matter

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          Recent observations revealed a mysterious ultra diffuse galaxy, NGC1052-DF2, in the group of a large elliptical galaxy, NGC1052. Compared to expectations from abundance matching models, the dark matter mass contained in NGC1052-DF2 is smaller by a factor of \(\sim 400\). We utilize controlled \(N\)-body simulations of the tidal interaction between NGC1052 and a smaller satellite galaxy, that we suppose as the progenitor of NGC1052-DF2, to test if tidal stripping can explain dark-matter deficiency at such levels. We find that when assuming a tightly bound orbit as well as a relatively low concentration and cored density profile for the dark halo of the satellite, our simulations reproduce well both the mass profile and the effective radius inferred from the observations of NGC1052-DF2. Orbital parameters and halo concentration are in the tail, but still consistent with measurements of their distributions from cosmological simulations. Such strongly dark-matter deficient galaxies, in our scenario, are thus expected to be relatively rare in groups and clusters, and not present in the field.

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            17 April 2018
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            1804.06421
            62b503cb-4ab5-4656-a867-fddf92f8217d

            http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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            5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS Letters
            astro-ph.GA astro-ph.CO

            Cosmology & Extragalactic astrophysics,Galaxy astrophysics
            Cosmology & Extragalactic astrophysics, Galaxy astrophysics

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