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EAS Publications Series
Volume 36, 2009
Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Observations, Experiments and Theories
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| Page(s) | 113 - 126 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eas/0936016 | |
| Published online | 30 May 2009 | |
Dark Energy and Dark Matter: Observations, Experiments and Theories
E. Pécontal, T. Buchert, Ph. Di Stefano and Y. Copin (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 36 (2009) 113-126
E. Pécontal, T. Buchert, Ph. Di Stefano and Y. Copin (eds)
EAS Publications Series, 36 (2009) 113-126
Review of Observational Evidence for Dark Matter in the Universe and in upcoming searches for Dark Stars
Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
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.
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