Astrophysical: Dark matter

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    The IAC participates in the development of a new ‘cosmic GPS’ that achieves the most accurate map of dark matter in the universe
    A team of cosmologists from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) has obtained the...
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    The Kinematic Status and Mass Content of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
    We present VLT FLAMES spectroscopic observations (R~6500) in the Ca II triplet region for 470 probable kinematic members of the Sculptor (Scl) dwarf spheroidal...
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    The latest advances in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and their consequences for problems such as that of dark matter have been presented
    HC2NP2019, the second conference on "Hadronic Contributions to New Physics Searches" organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Puerto de la...
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    The lens SW05 J143454.4+522850: a fossil group at redshift 0.6?
    Fossil groups are considered the end product of natural galaxy group evolution in which group members sink towards the centre of the gravitational potential due...
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    The mass content of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy
    We present a new determination of the mass content of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy, based on a novel approach which takes into account the two distinct...
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    The mass of our Galaxy from satellite proper motions in the Gaia era
    We use Gaia DR2 systemic proper motions of 45 satellite galaxies to constrain the mass of the Milky Way using the scale-free mass estimator of Watkins et al....
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    The Missing Satellites of the Magellanic Clouds? Gaia Proper Motions of the Recently Discovered Ultra-faint Galaxies
    According to LCDM theory, hierarchical evolution occurs on all mass scales, implying that satellites of the Milky Way should also have companions. The recent...
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    The Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos hosts the series of talks "From the Sky to the Thesis" to bring astrophysics closer to the public
    The Museum of Science and the Cosmos hosts the series of talks "From the Sky to the Thesis" to bring astrophysics closer to the public
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    The mystery of the galaxy with no dark matter: solved!
    A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has clarified one of the mysteries of 2018 in the field of extragalactic astrophysics...