In Search of Dark Matter

• Main Authors: Freeman, Ken (Author), McNamara, Geoff (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

The dark matter problem is one of the most fundamental and profoundly difficult to solve problems in the history of science. Not knowing what makes up most of the known universe goes to the heart of our understanding of the Universe and our place in it. In Search of Dark Matter is the story of the e...

Table of Contents:

• How to weigh galaxies
• The false dawn
• Seeing the invisible
• Dark halos
• We are surrounded!
• Pieces of the Big Bang
• Cosmic mirages
• The baryon inventory
• MACHO astronomy
• What can the matter be?
• Exploring exotica: neutrinos
• Exploring exotica: WIMPs and axions
• In the beginning...
• Towards omega.