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==Background Information on Dark Matter== | ==Background Information on Dark Matter== | ||
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|1. How can we be sure dark matter exists? | |1. How can we be sure dark matter exists? | ||
|[http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/dark_matter.html Gas Observations] | |[http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/dark_matter.html Gas Observations] | ||
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve Galaxy Rotation Curves] | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_rotation_curve Galaxy Rotation Curves] | ||
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| + | [http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~ger/ASTRO-110_sp08/Lecture28_DarkMatter.pdf Gravitational Lensing] | ||
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| + | [http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-is-dark-energy/ Open/Expanding Universe] | ||
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| + | [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/dark_matter.html Missing Mass] | ||
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|2. What are the possible candidates for the particles that actually make up dark matter? | |2. What are the possible candidates for the particles that actually make up dark matter? | ||
| − | |[http://www.eclipse.net/~cmmiller/DM/ MACHOs, | + | |[http://www.eclipse.net/~cmmiller/DM/ MACHOs, WIMPs] |
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| + | [http://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/astronomy-terms/dark-matter1.htm Ordinary Matter] | ||
| + | [http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6021/1132.full Super-symmetric Particles] | ||
| − | + | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightest_Supersymmetric_Particle Neutralinos] | |
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| − | | | + | |3. What are the properties of WIMPs? |
| + | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralino The Neutralino] | ||
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| − | | | + | |4. What onging research is being done to detect and experiment with dark matter? |
| + | |[http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/25429 Axion research] | ||
| + | [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/science/space/14dark.html liquid Xenon research] | ||
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| + | |5. Where are all the super-symmetric particles? | ||
| + | |More Links | ||
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Revision as of 19:03, 21 July 2011
Background Information on Dark Matter
Questions for the Web
| Question | Links to Possible Answers |
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| 1. How can we be sure dark matter exists? | Gas Observations
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| 2. What are the possible candidates for the particles that actually make up dark matter? | MACHOs, WIMPs |
| 3. What are the properties of WIMPs? | |
| 4. What onging research is being done to detect and experiment with dark matter? | Axion research |
| 5. Where are all the super-symmetric particles? | More Links |