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The dark matter problem : a historical perspective /

"Most astronomers and physicists now believe that the matter content of the Universe is dominated by dark matter: hypothetical particles which interact with normal matter primarily through the force of gravity. Though invisible to current direct detection methods, dark matter can explain a vari...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sanders, Robert H.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Early history of the dark matter hypothesis
  • The stability of disk galaxies : the dark-halo solution
  • Direct evidence : extended rotation curves of spiral galaxies
  • The maximum-disk : light traces mass
  • Cosmology and the birth of astroparticle physics
  • Clusters revisited : missing mass found
  • CDM confronts galaxy rotation curves
  • The new cosmology : dark matter is not enough
  • An alternative to dark matter : Modified Newtonian Dynamics
  • Seeing dark matter : the theory and practice of detection
  • Reflections : a personal point of view.