Slide 1Are we sure it isn’t ordinary matter/baryons? Not in compact objects (brown dwarfs, etc.) Baryons should also contribute to nucleosynthesis But we got it to work…

Slide 1Dark Matter Slide 2 Either dark matter exists or we do not understand how gravity operates across galaxy-sized distances. We have many reasons to have confidence in…

Slide 1 What do we know about the universe? A ‘finger’ of the Universe’s dark-matter skeleton, which ultimately dictates where galaxies form, has been observed for…

Slide 1 The Baryon Induced Transformation of CDM Halos Mario G. Abadi Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CONICET Argentina In collaboration with Julio Navarro and the Canadian…

The Baryon Induced Transformation of CDM Halos Mario G. Abadi Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, CONICET Argentina In collaboration with Julio Navarro and the Canadian Computational…

Galactic Structure Heidi Newberg Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Overview Overview of results from SDSS (this will go quickly, so I hope most peole have some familiarity…

PowerPoint Presentation DARK MATTER & GALACTIC ROTATION 2012 ASTRO SUMMER SCHOOL In 1933, Fritz Zwicky calculated the mass of the Coma Cluster More evidence was discovered…

How special are brightest group and cluster galaxies? How special are brightest group and cluster galaxies? Anja von der Linden et al., 2007, MNRAS, 379, 867 On the prevalence…

Slide 1 What do we know about the universe? A ‘finger’ of the Universe’s dark-matter skeleton, which ultimately dictates where galaxies form, has been observed for…