[SEMINARI] Recordatori: The Local Group as a Dark Matter Laboratory

[Enric Marco]

Titol: The Local Group as a Dark Matter Laboratory

Per: Dr. Jorge Peñarrubia

De: Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, Regne Unit

Lloc: Seminari del departament d'Astronomia i Astrofisica

Dia: Dimarts 04 maig 2010

Hora: 15:30

Resum

The Local Group (the Milky Way, Andromeda and their satellite galaxies) 
will ever be the galactic system with the largest and most thorough 
observational data set in the Universe. The potential information that 
can be inferred on galaxy formation processes and on the nature of Dark 
Matter is indeed extraordinary and will strongly increase in the next 
few years thanks to the advent of large ground-based surveys of the 
Local Group (e.g. Pan-STARRS, LSST), as well as of spatial missions like 
GAIA and JWST. In this talk I will provide a state-of-the-art review of 
the available constraints on the amount and distribution of dark matter 
in many of the the Local Group members, as well as of the many 
implications that these results have on the present cosmological 
paradigm of galaxy formation and evolution (Cold Dark Matter, CDM).

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