Lens Mapping of Dark Matter Substructure with Vsop-2
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Hierarchical clustering models of cold dark matter (CDM) predict that about 5% 10% of a galaxy-sized halo with mass ∼ 10 solar masses (M⊙) resides in substructures (CDM subhalos) with masses ∼ < 108M⊙. To directly identify such substructures, we propose to observe radio continuum emission from multiply imaged QSOs using VSOP-2 with a high angular resolution.
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