Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter : York, UK, 18-22 September 2000 / edited by Neil J.C. Spooner, Vitaly Kudryavtsev.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Spooner, Neil J. C. (Neil John Curwen), 1960-

Kudryavtsev, Vitaly.

Conference Name:

International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter (3rd : 2000 : York, England)

International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dark matter (Astronomy)--Congresses.

Dark matter (Astronomy).

Astrophysics--Congresses.

Astrophysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (664 p.)

Other Title:

Identification of dark matter

Dark matter

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The objective of the workshop series "The Identification of Dark Matter" is to assess critically the status of work attempting to identify what constitutes dark matter; in particular, to consider what techniques are currently being used, how successful they are, and what new techniques are likely to improve the prospects for identifying dark matter candidates in the future. This proceedings volume includes reviews on major particle astrophysics topics in the field of dark matter, as well as short contributed papers.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; SPACE, TIME, AND MATTER: COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS 2001; 1 Introduction; 2 Space, The Final Frontier; 2.1 Expansion; 2.2 Geometry; 3 Time; 3.1 Stellar Ages; 3.2 Hubble Age; 4 Matter; 4.1 The Baryon Density: a re-occuring crisis ?; 4.2 Ωmatter; 4.3 Equation of State of Dominant Energy; 5 Conclusions: A Cosmic Uncertainty Principle; Acknowledgments; References; COSMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS: do we already know the final answer ?; 1 Introduction; 2 Hubble constant, H0; 2.1 Comparison with other estimates; 3 CMB and Ωbh2; 4 A radical alternative: lepton asymmetry

5 The evidence for positive Λ from Type la supernovae6 Other problems: the cluster baryon fraction, cluster abundances; References; Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe; INTRODUCTION; HOMOGENEITY AND HETEROGENEITY; COSMOLOGICAL USES: LOW REDSHIFTS; COSMOLOGICAL USES: HIGH REDSHIFTS; The Search; Results; DISCUSSION; Evolution; Extinction; CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; DYNAMICAL RECOVERY OF COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; 1 Introduction; 2 Recovering the no-hair theorem in extended gravity cosmologies; 3 Discussion and conclusions; References

CONSTRAINTS ON DARK MATTER FROM THE MICROWAVE BACKGROUND AND LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE1 CDM models for structure formation; 2 CMB power spectra; 3 Inflationary models; 4 Geometrical degeneracy; 5 Interpretation of current CMB data; 6 Outlook; References; EUV AND SOFT X-RAYS FROM CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES - THE 'CLUSTER SOFT-EXCESS' PHENOMENON; 1 Introduction; 2 EUVE observations with in situ background measurements; 3 Soft excess emission in the PSPC passband; 4 Interpretation of the excess fluxes; 5 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; NO NEED FOR DARK MATTER IN GALAXIES?; 1 Introduction

2 The Problems2.1 The Microlensing Optical Depth to the Galactic Center; 2.2 Hydrodynamical Modelling of the Galactic Bar; 2.3 Stability of Unbarred Disk Galaxies; 2.4 Pattern Speeds of Bars; 2.5 Rotation Curves; 3 Conspiracies and Catastrophes; 3.1 The Disk-Halo Conspiracy; 3.2 The Surface Brightness Conspiracy; 3.3 The Angular Momentum and Satellite Catastrophes; 4 Discussion; References; CAUSTICS AND COLD DARK MATTER; 1 Introduction; 2 Collisionless dark matter halos; 2.1 Axially symmetric cold collapse; 2.2 Hierarchical growth; 3 Summary; References

DEEP SUPERNOVA OBSERVATIONS AND THE NATURE OF DARK MATTER HALOS1 Introduction; Acknowledgments; References; DARK MATTER CAUSTICS; 1 Introduction; 2 Evidence for universal structure in galactic halos; 3 Conclusions; Acknowledgements; References; NEUTRALINO DARK MATTER AND CAUSTIC RING SIGNALS; 1 Introduction; 2 Caustic rings of dark matter; 2.1 Infall model; 2.2 Density profile; 3 Gamma-ray flux from neutralino annihilation; 4 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; THE SPHERICAL COLLAPSE MODEL IN A UNIVERSE WITH COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT; 1 Introduction; 2 The cosmological model

3 Evolution of the overdense region

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

981-281-136-2

OCLC:

922951794