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Arp 105's two tidal dwarf galaxy candidates are baryon-dominated, with dynamic-to-baryonic mass ratios of about 1.3–2, implying they contain almost no dark matter.

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load-bearing objection A solid observational study with a credible composite-stellar-population result for A105N, but the dark-matter-deficiency claim does not survive contact with the paper's own numbers — the A105S ratio is arithmetically wrong and the A105N ratio rests on an unproven rotation interpretation. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2607.17776 v1 pith:3RJQ76H7 submitted 2026-07-20 astro-ph.GA

Structural and dynamical properties of Tidal dwarf galaxies in the tails and bridge of the Guitar galaxy Arp 105

Jyoti Prakash , Kanak Saha This is my paper
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keywords tidal dwarf galaxiesgalaxy interactionsArp 105dark matter deficiencystar formationspectral energy distributionmetallicitystellar populations
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The paper argues that the two tidal dwarf galaxy candidates in the interacting Guitar galaxy system Arp 105 were assembled from gas and stars stripped from the parent galaxies, are currently forming stars in situ after a collision about 280 million years ago, and are almost entirely lacking in dark matter. Using new far-ultraviolet imaging combined with optical and infrared data, the authors derive stellar masses, star formation rates, and metallicities, and combine these with existing kinematic measurements to show that both candidates have dynamical-to-baryonic mass ratios of about 1.3–2. If these objects really are dark-matter deficient, they provide direct evidence that some dwarf galaxies can form through tidal recycling rather than the collapse of primordial dark-matter halos. The finding also reinforces the theoretical expectation that tidal dwarfs inherit pre-enriched disk material, which explains their relatively high metallicity for their small size.

Core claim

The central claim is that Arp 105N and Arp 105S are genuine tidal dwarfs: composite systems containing older stars stripped from the host spiral plus a young starburst population formed in situ. New far-ultraviolet observations reveal two star-forming knots in A105N, and strong Balmer-line equivalent widths indicate a dominant starburst age of about 6–10 Myr, while the FUV flux shows star formation sustained over the past 100–200 Myr. The measured gas-phase metallicity of roughly two-thirds solar is consistent with pre-enriched tidal debris. Spectral energy distribution modeling gives stellar masses of about 5.75×10^9, 0.8×10^9, and 6.8×10^9 solar masses for A105N, A105S, and the tidal bridg

What carries the argument

The key diagnostic is the ratio of dynamical mass to baryonic mass, Mdyn/Mbary. Baryonic mass is the sum of stellar and gas masses inferred from multi-wavelength spectral energy distribution fitting, anchored by new far-ultraviolet photometry. Dynamical mass comes from published 21-cm and optical emission-line kinematics. A ratio near unity means the object is baryon-dominated; the paper's values of ~1.95 and ~1.30 place both candidates in the dark-matter-deficient regime, contrasting with dark-matter-dominated classical dwarfs. The other supporting mechanism is the multi-wavelength SED itself, which separates a young in-situ starburst component from an old stripped stellar population.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the gas motions used to compute the dynamical masses (21-cm for A105N, H-alpha for A105S) trace bound self-gravitating rotation; if those motions are unrelaxed tidal streaming or projection along the tails, the dark-matter-deficiency ratios collapse.

What would settle it

A high-resolution velocity field of either candidate showing that the gas kinematics are dominated by outflow, fallback, or projection rather than a closed rotation pattern—so that the corrected dynamical mass drops below the measured baryonic mass (Mdyn/Mbary < 1)—would falsify the central claim.

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If this is right

  • These two objects become concrete examples of dwarf galaxies that formed without dark-matter halos, testing hierarchical-assembly predictions that tidal dwarfs form from recycled disk material.
  • The composite stellar population warns that simple age or mass indicators will mix stripped stars with newly formed stars, so TDG identifications need multi-band photometry like this.
  • The metallicity measurement (about 2/3 solar) supports the idea that tidal dwarfs sit on the high-metallicity side of the mass–metallicity relation, distinct from classical dwarfs.
  • The detection of significant young stellar mass and star formation in the tidal bridge implies that star formation in tidal debris is not confined to the clumps, affecting star-formation-rate accounting in interactions.
  • The consistent ~1–4 Myr formation timescales for the young populations across all three components argue for a single, recent starburst episode, comparable to the ~280 Myr dynamical timescale of the interaction.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • A clean test: map the velocity fields of both candidates with integral-field or high-resolution 21-cm observations. If rotation persists and the rotation curves are flat, the dark-matter deficiency is robust; if the motions are dominated by inflow/outflow or line-of-sight projection, the derived Mdyn values are not dynamical masses and the ratios should be treated as upper limits.
  • If confirmed, these objects join the growing class of 'no-dark-matter' galaxies and could sharpen the distinction between cosmological dwarfs and tidal debris, potentially informing missing-satellite studies by showing a non-cosmological formation channel contributes to the dwarf population.
  • The substantial stellar mass in the tidal bridge (comparable to one of the TDG candidates) suggests future surveys of tidal debris should include bridges and tails, not only condensations, when estimating how much stellar mass is recycled by interactions.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper presents a multi-wavelength (AstroSat/UVIT FUV, SDSS, Spitzer/IRAC) analysis of the two tidal dwarf galaxy candidates A105N and A105S and the tidal bridge in the interacting system Arp 105. After PSF matching and source extraction, the authors perform GALFIT structural decomposition, CIGALE SED fitting, and SDSS BOSS emission-line analysis of A105N. They derive stellar masses, star formation rates, gas-phase metallicity, stellar ages, and effective radii, and they use literature HI and H-alpha kinematics to estimate dynamical-to-baryonic mass ratios of ~1.95 (A105N) and ~1.30 (A105S), concluding that both TDGs are dark-matter deficient. The paper also argues that A105N hosts a composite stellar population of stripped old stars plus young stars formed in situ, and that the recent star formation is consistent with the ~280 Myr interaction timescale.

Significance. If the main conclusion holds, the paper would provide a well-observed example of TDGs forming from pre-enriched, recycled material with little or no dark matter, and one of the few stellar-mass measurements of a tidal bridge. The methodological strengths are real: the work combines new AstroSat FUV imaging with archival SDSS and Spitzer data, uses careful PSF matching and segmentation, applies Balmer-decrement extinction corrections, and checks SED masses against independent color-based estimators. The spectroscopic evidence for a young starburst superimposed on an older stripped population in A105N is credible and internally consistent. I see no circularity in the derivation: the photometric, spectroscopic, and kinematic inputs are independent, and the self-cited papers are method references. However, the dark-matter-deficiency claim rests on two load-bearing kinematic assumptions and, in the case of A105S, is contradicted by the paper's own numbers.

major comments (3)
  1. [§7, A105S paragraph; numbers from §5] The A105S dynamical-to-baryonic ratio does not follow from the paper's own inputs. The text defines M_bary = M* + M_HI + M_dust. With the quoted values M* = 8.2e8, M_HI = 5e8, M_dust = 8.9e7, and M_dyn ~ 1e9, M_bary ≈ 1.41e9 and M_dyn/M_bary ≈ 0.71, not 1.30. The quoted value 1.30 can only be obtained by dropping the HI and dust terms (or by taking M_dyn ~ 1.3e9 with M_bary ~ 1e9, which is not the stated baryonic mass). This is a central, load-bearing error: if M_dyn < M_bary, A105S cannot support the dark-matter-deficiency conclusion. Please recompute the ratio, propagate uncertainties, and revise the abstract and conclusions accordingly.
  2. [§7, Bournaud et al. (2004) caveat for A105N] The A105N conclusion depends on interpreting the VLA HI velocity field as bound rotation. The paper itself states in §7 that, based on H-alpha kinematics, the northern TDG 'might be a result of line-of-sight projection rather than a distinct, bound entity,' and that only the southern region shows evidence of rotation. If the HI motions trace tidal streaming, fallback, or projection along the tail, then M_dyn = 2.4e10 is not a dynamical mass and the ratio ~1.95 is not evidence about dark matter. The authors need to either provide a concrete argument (e.g., velocity-gradient geometry, mass-model consistency, or a bound-mass estimate) that A105N is self-gravitating, or rephrase the A105N result as conditional on an assumption that is explicitly in tension with the cited kinematic study.
  3. [Abstract and §7, bullet 6] The ratios are presented as measured values without error bars, and for A105N the quoted M_dyn is an upper limit. The abstract states '~1.95' and the conclusions say this 'indicates a deficiency of dark matter,' but 1.95 is an upper-limit ratio and there is no uncertainty quoted on either ratio. Given that the A105N stellar mass itself ranges from ~3.0e9 to ~7.3e9 across the estimators in Table 4, and the A105S ratio is internally inconsistent, the strength of the conclusion exceeds what the quoted inputs can bear. Please provide error propagation, state explicitly which quantities are limits, and soften the conclusion accordingly.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§5, SED fitting text] The sentence 'the requirement that the SED be dominated by emission lines' is confusing and likely a wording error; SED fitting here uses broadband photometry and dust emission, not emission lines. This should be corrected to something like 'dominated by a young stellar population' or removed.
  2. [Table 5] The dust emission module is labeled 'Dale 2104'; this should be 'Dale 2014' (Dale et al. 2014).
  3. [§3.2, Model-B results] Model-B is quoted as giving effective radii of 0.4±0.2 kpc and 8.0±0.2 kpc for the two knots of A105N. An effective radius of 8 kpc for a knot inside an object whose total effective radius is 2.2±0.2 kpc is implausible and is probably a typo (0.8 kpc?). Please check and correct.
  4. [Figure 4 caption] The caption says '(A105N1, A105N1)' where the second knot should be N2. Also, in §5 the label 'M∗,oldBr=8.14×10^8' appears in the A105S entry and should likely be 'M∗,old,S'.
  5. [§6, SFR comparison] The paper reports SFR_FUV = 0.65±0.03 M_sun/yr for the whole A105N but then reports SFR_UV = 0.068±0.030 M_sun/yr within the 3-arcsec SDSS fiber aperture. The factor ~10 difference is presumably because the latter is an aperture measurement, but this should be stated explicitly to avoid apparent inconsistency.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the central results are observational and derived from independent photometry, spectroscopy, and literature kinematics.

full rationale

The paper's central claims — composite stellar populations in A105N, SED-based stellar masses, sSFRs, and dark-matter-deficient Mdyn/Mbary ratios — are derived from independent observational inputs: AstroSat FUV imaging, SDSS photometry and BOSS spectroscopy, Spitzer IRAC data, and published VLA HI and CFHT H-alpha kinematics (Duc et al. 1997; Duc & Mirabel 1994a). The SED fitting uses external CIGALE models with fixed Salpeter IMF and Calzetti attenuation; the Balmer-decrement reddening is measured from the spectrum, not imposed from the target conclusion. The Mdyn/Mbary ratio for A105N combines an external upper-limit dynamical mass with the paper's own stellar-plus-gas mass; for A105S it combines an external rotation-curve mass with the paper's stellar mass and published HI mass. These are derived quantities, not fits renamed as predictions. The self-citations (Saha et al. 2024, Mondal et al. 2023, Barway & Saha 2020, GHOSH et al. 2022) are pipeline, background-estimation, and green-valley-reference citations; they do not supply the load-bearing mass or age results. The paper's own §7 caveat that the northern TDG may be a line-of-sight projection rather than a bound entity (Bournaud et al. 2004) is an important scientific caveat and a possible correctness risk, and the A105S ratio has an apparent arithmetic inconsistency, but neither is a circularity: the claimed output is not defined in terms of the conclusion, nor is any fitted parameter presented as a prediction. Thus the derivation chain is self-contained with respect to the circularity patterns under review.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

4 free parameters · 6 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on standard SED/spectral tools plus prior measurements from the literature. No new physical entities are introduced. The largest unquantified inputs are the SED template grid, the assumed IMF/attenuation law, and the literature dynamical masses.

free parameters (4)
  • CIGALE SFH grid (tau_main, tau_burst, f_burst, age, burst_age) = grid values; exact best-fit not recoverable from text (e.g., tau_main 500-5000 Myr; tau_burst 5-120 Myr)
    Stellar masses used in Mdyn/Mbary are outputs of CIGALE template fitting over this grid; the assumed SFH directly sets the old/young mass split.
  • attenuation power-law slope delta = delta = -0.4 (A105N), -1.0 (bridge), +0.3 (A105S)
    The paper chooses a different delta per object; stellar mass varies by roughly 10-40% across the tested range, and this variation is not propagated into the dynamical ratios.
  • dust emission parameters (dale2014: qpah, umin, alpha) = grid ranges: qpah 0.47-2.50, umin 0.10-0.15, alpha 1.0-2.0
    Fitted dust SED parameters; secondary effect on stellar mass but part of the energy-balance fit.
  • E(B-V)_* from Calzetti factor 0.44 x E(B-V)_neb = 0.19 +/- 0.02 mag (A105N)
    This rescaling of the Balmer-decrement reddening sets all extinction corrections used for SFRs and SED fitting; the factor 0.44 is adopted from Calzetti et al. (2000).
axioms (6)
  • domain assumption Flat LCDM cosmology with Omega_m=0.3, Omega_L=0.7, H0=70 km/s/Mpc
    Used in Section 1 to convert angular scales and luminosities; distance and physical scale enter masses and SFRs.
  • domain assumption Salpeter IMF for SED fitting and SFR calibrations
    Assumed throughout unless stated; stellar masses and SFRs scale inversely with IMF normalization.
  • standard math Case B recombination Balmer ratio (H-alpha/H-beta)_0 = 2.86 at Te=10^4 K, ne=100 cm^-3
    Used in Section 4 Eq. 1 to derive E(B-V)_neb and all extinction-corrected fluxes.
  • domain assumption Calzetti attenuation law with k_lambda and E(B-V)_* = 0.44 E(B-V)_neb
    Applied to spectra and photometry; if the true attenuation curve differs, SFRs, metallicities, and masses change.
  • domain assumption Bruzual & Charlot (2003) stellar population synthesis models implemented in CIGALE represent the stellar populations of TDGs
    The old-stripped/young-in-situ decomposition rests on these templates; there is no independent constraint on old stellar mass for the bridge.
  • domain assumption The literature kinematic values (VLA HI upper limit 2.4e10 Msun for A105N; CFHT H-alpha rotation ~1e9 Msun for A105S) are reliable tracers of bound dynamical mass
    Directly entered into Mdyn/Mbary in Section 7; tidal streaming or non-equilibrium motions in the debris would invalidate the dark-matter interpretation.

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We present a multi-wavelength (far-ultraviolet to infrared) analysis of two tidal dwarf galaxy (TDG) candidates and a tidal bridge in the interacting system Arp 105 at $z = 0.029$ in the Abell 1185 cluster. Far-ultraviolet observations obtained with the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope onboard AstroSat reveal strong FUV emission from the tidal galaxies Arp~105N and Arp~105S, indicating recent star formation. In Arp~105N, strong nebular emission lines and large equivalent widths $EW(H\alpha)=77.6\pm1.3$ $\overset{\circ}{\mathrm {A}}$ and $EW(H\beta)=15.8\pm1.7$ $\overset{\circ}{\mathrm {A}}$ imply a dominant starburst age of $\sim$6 - 10~Myr under an instantaneous-burst assumption, while the FUV emission suggests star formation sustained over the past $\sim100 - 200$~Myr. The relatively high metallicity, $\sim2/3,Z_\odot$ (based on the strong-line method), is consistent with expectations for a tidal dwarf galaxy formed from material inherited from the host galaxy. Together, these results suggest that Arp~105N hosts a composite stellar population, consisting of older stars stripped from the host galaxy and younger stars formed in situ. Spectral energy distribution modeling yields stellar masses of $5.75\times10^{9}$, $0.8\times10^{9}$, and $6.8\times10^{9},\rm M_\odot$ for Arp~105N, Arp~105S, and the tidal bridge, respectively. Based on the dynamical mass estimate from VLA HI measurements for Arp~105N and based on CFHT H$\alpha$ kinematics for A105S, they have a dynamical-to-baryonic mass ratio of $\sim1.95$ and $\sim1.30$, respectively, indicating a deficiency of dark matter. Further observations, particularly integral field spectroscopy and high-resolution 21~cm observations, may provide better constraints into the kinematics and improve understanding of TDG formation.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.17776 by Jyoti Prakash, Kanak Saha.

Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (Left panel): SDSS false-color image of the Arp 105 interacting system created using gri bands. The tidal bridge connects the tidal dwarf galaxy A105N, located at the extreme North, and the starburst galaxy NGC 3561A. (Right panel): AstroSat FUV image in grayscale, inverted. A tophat smoothing kernel with a 3-pixel radius was applied to both images. North direction is up 3 DATA ANALYSIS: SURFACE PHOTOMETRY… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Two-dimensional Moffat profile fitting of a stellar point spread function (PSF) for the SDSS r band (top row) and AstroSat FUV band (bottom row). From left to right: the original observed data, the best-fit 2D model, and the resulting residuals (Data − Model). The color bar units are nanomaggies (NMgy) and count/s, respectively. Their image cutout size is 31×31 pixels. the extended wings of real stellar pr… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: (Left panel): Segmentation map generated from the PSF-matched SDSS 𝑟-band image(pixel∼ 0.6") of Arp 105 (see [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Two-dimensional GALFIT structural decomposition of the sample galaxies in the SDSS 𝑟-band. From top to bottom, the rows display the fitting results for A105N using Model (A), A105N using Model (B), and A105S, respectively. For each row, the panels from left to right show: (Left) the original SDSS 𝑟-band intensity map; (Middle) the best-fitting 2D Sérsic intensity profile; and (Right) the corresponding resi… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The one-dimensional r-band surface brightness profiles of the two TDGs are shown. (Left panel:) The profiles are extracted along the major axis in the west–east direction for A105N (model-A) and in the south–north direction for A105S. (Right panel:) Radial profile of A105N (Model-A) and A105S created using annuli. For A105N, the blue points represent the observed data, while the blue dashed line shows the … view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: SDSS spectrum of A105N in rest frame(z=0.029), X axis is rest frame wavelength in Å and Y-axsi is flux density in 10−17 × erg s−1 cm−2 Å −1 . The black step line represents the continuum-subtracted spectrum. Gaussian fits to prominent emission lines are shown in red, with their corresponding rest-frame wavelengths (in angstroms) labeled above each line. The green dotted rectangles indicate regions that are… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Modeled SEDs for 3 tidal components with different colors with slope 𝛿. Top: A105N, Middle: Bridge, Bottom: A105S. Black dots represent observed flux data. The blue curve is the best-fit SED for A105N, and the red curve is the best fit for A105S and the bridge tidal component. The best 𝜒 2 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒𝑑 is marked on top of each figure. Inverted U-shaped curves are filter responses. Each SED is labeled with its c… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: In this SED-derived Mass–sSFR diagram, gray data points are from (Salim et al. 2016). Blue circles represent data from (Weilbacher et al. 2003). The red, black, and green stars correspond to A105N, the tidal bridge, and A105S, respectively, from this study. The error bar is in magenta. The plot is divided into three regions based on specific star formation rate (log(sSFR)): Star-forming region: log(sSFR) ≥… view at source ↗

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