We present the mass models of 31 spiral and irregular nearby galaxies obtained using hybrid rotation curves (RCs) combining high resolution GHASP Fabry-Perot Hα RCs and extended WHISP H ones together with 3.4 µm WISE photometry. The aim is to compare the dark matter (DM) halo properties within the optical radius using only Hα RCs with the effect of including and excluding the mass contribution of the neutral gas component, and when using H or hybrid RCs. Pseudo-isothermal (ISO) core and Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) cuspy DM halo profiles are used with various fiducial fitting procedures. Mass models using Hα RCs including or excluding the H gas component provide compatible disc M/L. The correlations between DM halo and baryon parameters do not strongly depend on the RC. Clearly, the differences between the fitting procedures are larger than between the different datasets. Hybrid and H RCs lead to higher M/L values for both ISO and NFW best fit models but lower central densities for ISO halos and higher concentration for NFW halos than when using Hα RCs only. The agreement with the mass model parameters deduced using hybrid RCs, considered as a reference, is better for H than for Hα RCs. ISO density profiles better fit the RCs than the NFW ones, especially when using Hα or hybrid RCs. Halo masses at the optical radius determined using the various datasets are compatible even if they tend to be overestimated with Hα RCs. Hybrid RCs are thus ideal to study the mass distribution within the optical radius.
We explore the predictions of Milgromian gravity (MOND) in the local universe by considering the distribution of the “phantom” dark matter (PDM) that would source the MOND gravitational field in Newtonian gravity, allowing an easy comparison with the dark matter framework. For this, we specifically deal with the quasi-linear version of MOND (QUMOND). We compute the “stellar-to-(phantom)halo mass relation” (SHMR), a monotonically increasing power law resembling the SHMR observationally deduced from spiral galaxy rotation curves in the Newtonian context. We show that the gas-to-(phantom)halo mass relation is flat. We generate a map of the Local Volume in QUMOND, highlighting the important influence of distant galaxy clusters, in particular Virgo. This allows us to explore the scatter of the SHMR and the average density of PDM around galaxies in the Local Volume, ΩPDM ≈ 0.1, below the average cold dark matter density in a ΛCDM universe. We provide a model of the Milky Way in its external field in the MOND context, which we compare to an observational estimate of the escape velocity curve. Finally, we highlight the peculiar features related to the external field effect in the form of negative PDM density zones in the outskirts of each galaxy, and test a new analytic formula for computing galaxy rotation curves in the presence of an external field in QUMOND. While we show that the negative PDM density zones would be difficult to detect dynamically, we quantify the weak-lensing signal they could produce for lenses at z ∼ 0.3.
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