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Colloquium – Sukanya Chakrabarti – Towards Precision Measurement of Dark Matter
Colloquium – Sukanya Chakrabarti – Towards Precision Measurement of Dark Matter
Speaker: Sukanya Chakrabarti (University of Alabama, Huntsville) Title: Towards Precision Measurement of Dark Matter Abstract: For more than a century now, our inference of the mass distributions (including dark matter) in galaxies has been based on modeling the positions and velocities of stars, i.e., using kinematic analyses, which assume equilibrium. These kinematic estimates can be