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Dark Matter in Groups and Clusters of Galaxies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
We compare the characteristics of stellar populations with those of dark halos. Dark matter around galaxies, and in groups, clusters and voids is discussed. Modern data suggest that the overall density of matter in the Universe is ΩM = 0.3 ± 0.1, about 80 % of this matter is nonbaryonic dark matter, and about 20 % is baryonic, mostly in the form of hot intra-cluster and intragroup gas, the rest in stellar populations of galaxies. All bright galaxies are surrounded by dark matter halos of external radii 200 − 300 kpc; halos consist mostly of non-baryonic matter with some mixture of hot gas. The Universe is dominated by dark energy (cosmological constant) term. Dark matter dominates in the dynamical evolution of galaxies in groups and clusters.
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- Part 5. Dark Matter and Clustering
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 174: Small Galaxy Groups , 2000 , pp. 360 - 372
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000
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