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- From: mpound@astro.umd.edu (Marc Pound)
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- Subject: Re: Dark matter
- Message-ID: <18154@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:06:47 GMT
- Article-I.D.: umd5.18154
- References: <24JAN199319274130@pavo.concordia.ca> <ETHANB.93Jan24231246@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu> <phfrom.441@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
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- In article <phfrom.441@nyx.uni-konstanz.de> phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de (Hartmut Frommert) writes:
- >ethanb@ptolemy.astro.washington.edu (Ethan Bradford) writes:
- >
- >>The only recent news w.r.t. dark matter that I know of was the
- >>conclusion that there was a lot more dark matter than previously
- >>thought in a small (3 galaxy) cluster. If the cluster is typical, the
- >>universe is definitely closed. The evidence for the dark matter is
- >>still indirect; in this case it is necessary to confine the hot gas in
- >>the cluster.
- >
- >Could someone post a reference ?
- >-
- > Hartmut Frommert <phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
- > Dept of Physics, Univ of Constance, P.O.Box 55 60, D-W-7750 Konstanz, Germany
- > -- Eat whale killers, not whales --
-
- The paper was presented at the 1/93 AAS meeting. It is abtract
- 15.14 in BAAS, vol 24, no 4, 1992. Authors are Mulchaey, Davis,
- Mushotzky, & Burstein. It was extensively covered in the popular
- press, see the latest issue of Science News, or the 1/4/92 NY Times.
-
- John Mulchaey & Dave Davis are grad students at the University of
- Maryland. Here it is from the horse's mouth (mulchaey@stsci.edu):
-
- >Marc,
- >
- >It will be in the Feb 10th issue of ApJ Letters. Preprints
- >should be going out today.
- >
- >Cheers,
- >
- >John
-
- Marc Pound
- Astronomy, U. Maryland
- mpound@astro.umd.edu
-