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Dark Matter in the Milky Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Konrad Kuijken
Konrad Kuijken*
Affiliation:
Kapteyn Astronomical Instituut, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, the Netherlands Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge MA 02138, USA ([email protected])

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If the Newtonian inverse-square law is an appropriate description of gravity, then disk galaxies, and the Milky Way in particular, contain large amounts of dark matter: in general, the observed shapes of rotation curves do not correspond to the gravitational potential of the observed stars and gas. The nature of this dark matter is still a topic of debate, the outcome of which will have important consequences for our ideas of how galaxies and larger structures in the universe formed.

Type
Session 5: Dark Matter in Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 164: Stellar Populations , 1995 , pp. 195 - 204
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

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