Dark matter in MS 1224 from distortion of background galaxies

Dark Matter in Elliptical Galaxies?

Molecular dark matter in galaxies

Context. Clouds containing molecular dark matter in quantities relevant for star formation may exist in minihaloes of the type of cold dark matter included in many cosmological simulations or in the regions of some galaxies extending far beyond their currently known boundaries. Aims. We have systematically explored parameter space to identify conditions under which plane-parallel clouds contain...

Baryonic Dark Matter in Galaxies

Cosmological nucleosynthesis calculations imply that many of the baryons in the Universe must be dark. We discuss the likelihood that some of these dark baryons may reside in the discs or halos of galaxies. If they were in the form of compact objects, they would then be natural MACHO candidates, in which case they are likely to be the remnants of a first generation of pregalactic or protogalact...

Dark Matter Halos around Galaxies

We present evidence that all galaxies, of any Hubble type and luminosity, bear the kinematical signature of a mass component distributed differently from the luminous matter. We review and/or derive the DM halo properties of galaxies of different morphologies: spirals, LSBs, ellipticals, dwarf irregulars and dwarf spheroidals. We show that the halo density profile Mh(x) = Mh(1) (1 + a ) x3 x2 +...

Dark Matter Profile in Clusters of Galaxies

Using X-ray observation we have obtained the deprojected gas density and temperature profiles for a sample of cluster of galaxies. We show that cool-core clusters, which are expected to be the largest relaxed structures in the universe, have central steep mass density profiles, similar to the cold dark matter density profiles resulting from cosmological N-body simulation. We will present detail...