Astrophysical: Dark matter

  • Talk
    The emergence of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
    Low Surface Brightness galaxies are extremely dark matter dominated, faint objects hardly distinguishable from the night sky. In the last decade it has became...
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    The ESO VISTA telescope and the VISTA Hemisphere Survey
    Survey operations with the VISTA telescope with it wide field near IR camera started in Feb 2010, following a science verification phase that started in Oct...
  • News
    The Euclid telescope takes off to explore the dark universe
    The Euclid mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) will be launched into space tomorrow, 1st July to make the largest and most precise 3D map of the Universe...
  • Publication
    The First Billion Years project: dark matter haloes going from contraction to expansion and back again
    We study the effect of baryons on the inner dark matter profile of the first galaxies using the First Billion Years simulation between z = 16 and 6 before...
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    The Galaxy "Missing Dark Matter" NGC 1052-DF4 is Undergoing Tidal Disruption
    The existence of long-lived galaxies lacking dark matter represents a challenge to our understanding of how galaxies form. Here, we present evidence that...
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    The Ghost of a Dwarf Galaxy: Fossils of the Hierarchical Formation of the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 5907
    We present an extragalactic perspective of an extended stellar tidal stream wrapping around the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 5907. Our deep images reveal for the...
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    The Halo Mass Function Redshift Dependence
    It has recently been shown that the correct halo mass function high-mass behavior may be obtained by an appropriate treatment of the all-mass-at-center problem...
  • News
    The IAC hosts the annual meeting of the DALI experiment to search for dark matter
    The annual meeting of the DALI (Dark-photons & Axion-Like particles Interferometer) experiment, an international collaboration to develop an astroparticle...
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    The IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for the axion, proposed component of dark matter
    The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern...