2008/12/20 by Katherine Freese · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/eas/0936016
14 pages, 7 figures, Conference Proceeding for "Dark Matter and Dark Energy" in Lyon, France, July 2008
arxiv created 2008/12/20 · arxiv updated 2015/05/12
Over the past decade, a consensus picture has emerged in which roughly a quarter of the universe consists of dark matter. The observational evidence for the existence of dark matter is reviewed: rotation curves of galaxies, weak lensing measurements, hot gas in clusters, primordial nucleosynthesis and microwave background experiments. In addition, a new line of research on Dark Stars is presented, which suggests that the first stars to exist in the universe were powered by dark matter heating rather than by fusion: the observational possibilities of discovering dark matter in this way are discussed.