BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The oblateness of the dark matter halos of nearby galaxies and its correlation with gas mass fractions DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230324T085500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230324T091000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240704T115757Z UID:indico-contribution-214@meetings.aip.de DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Mousumi Das (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)\nWe p resent a method to measure the the oblateness parameter q of the dark matt er halo of gas rich galaxies that have extended HI disks. We have applied our model to a sample of 20 nearby galaxies that are gas rich and close to face-on\, of which 6 are large disk galaxies\, 8 have moderate stellar ma sses and 6 are low surface brightness dwarf galaxies. We have used the sta cked HI velocity dispersion and HI surface densities to derive q in the ou ter disk regions. Our most important result is that gas dominated galaxies (such as LSB dwarfs) that have M(gas)/M(baryons)>0.5 have oblate halos (q \n\nhttps://meetings.aip.de/event/20/contributions/214/ LOCATION:Haus H\, Telegrafenberg URL:https://meetings.aip.de/event/20/contributions/214/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR