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- Title
REVIEW OF OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE FOR DARK MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE AND IN UPCOMING SEARCHES FOR DARK STARS.
- Authors
Freese, K.
- Abstract
Over the past decade, a consensus picture has emerged in which roughly a quarter of the universe consists of dark matter. The observational evidence for the existence of dark matter is reviewed: rotation curves of galaxies, weak lensing measurements, hot gas in clusters, primordial nucleosynthesis and microwave background experiments. In addition, a new line of research on Dark Stars is presented, which suggests that the first stars to exist in the universe were powered by dark matter heating rather than by fusion: the observational possibilities of discovering dark matter in this way are discussed.
- Subjects
DARK matter; INTERSTELLAR medium; GALAXY clusters; LOCAL Group (Astronomy); METAPHYSICAL cosmology; EXPANDING universe
- Publication
EAS Publications Series, 2009, Vol 36, p113
- ISSN
1633-4760
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1051/eas/0936016