Data on galaxies -good references ?

[notknowing]

I'm looking into galaxy rotation curves and I was wondering where I can find a good (preferentially recent) overview of measured galaxy rotation curves (refereed journal article, good website, arxiv ..). Further I was wondering how far out (from the galaxy center) one can measure rotation velocities and whether one has observed rotation curves where, at some large radius, the velocity starts to drop.
I'm grateful for your help.

Rudi Van Nieuwenhove

 

[Vazier]

well i am not sure if these sites contain the thing your looking for but have a look

http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-fid
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

 

[tacman]

There are several good references for data on galaxy rotation curves. One popular and reputable source is the NASA Extragalactic Database (NED), which provides a comprehensive collection of published data on galaxies, including rotation curves. Another useful resource is the HyperLeda database, which also contains a large collection of rotation curves for galaxies.

For more recent and updated information, you can also refer to published journal articles. Some good recent papers on galaxy rotation curves include "The Mass Distribution and Rotation Curve of the Milky Way" by Bovy et al. (2015), "The Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies" by Courteau et al. (2014), and "The Radial Acceleration Relation of Spiral Galaxies" by McGaugh et al. (2016).

In terms of measuring rotation velocities, the outermost limit for reliable measurements depends on the sensitivity of the instrument used and the quality of the data. In general, rotation curves can be measured out to several times the size of the galaxy's visible disk, which can range from tens of kiloparsecs to a few hundred kiloparsecs.

There have been observations of rotation curves where the velocity starts to drop at large radii, which can be attributed to the presence of dark matter. This is a topic of ongoing research and there are several papers discussing these observations, such as "The Dark Matter Crisis: Falsification of the Current Standard Model of Cosmology" by Lelli et al. (2017) and "Galaxy Rotation Curves and the Core/Cusp Problem" by Salucci et al. (2015).

I hope this information is helpful in your research on galaxy rotation curves. Good luck with your studies!