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Baryonic Dark Matter

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. D. Lynden-Bell

    1. Institute of Astronomy & Clare College, Cambridge, UK

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  2. G. Gilmore

    1. Institute of Astronomy & King’s College, Cambridge, UK

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 306)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. How Many Baryons are There?

    • Craig J. Hogan
    Pages 1-6

  3. Cometary Masses

    • M. E. Bailey
    Pages 7-35

  4. Dark Matter in the Solar System

    • Scott Tremaine
    Pages 37-65

  5. Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs

    • Lorne A. Nelson
    Pages 67-85

  6. White Dwarfs and the Local Mass Density

    • Volker Weidemann
    Pages 87-101

  7. Cooling Rates and Numbers of Faint White Dwarfs

    • R. Canal
    Pages 103-110

  8. The Galactic Distribution of Neutron Stars

    • A. G. Lyne
    Pages 111-115

  9. Wide Binaries and Mass Limits on Dark Matter

    • M. D. Weinberg
    Pages 117-136

  10. Dark Matter in the Galactic Disk

    • Gerard Gilmore
    Pages 137-157

  11. Systematic Properties of Rotation Curves and Dark Matter

    • Stefano Casertano, Tjeerd S. van Albada
    Pages 159-177

  12. Are There Massive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei?

    • Martin J. Rees
    Pages 179-194

  13. The Formation of Dark Matter in Cooling Flows

    • A. C. Fabian
    Pages 195-221

  14. QSO Absorption Lines, Early Evolution of Galactic Halos and the Metagalactic UV Flux

    • Wallace L. W. Sargent, Charles C. Steidel
    Pages 223-235

  15. Baryonic Dark Matter and the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies

    • B. E. J. Pagel
    Pages 237-256

  16. Nuclear Reactions in Inhomogeneous Cosmologies

    • William A. Fowler
    Pages 257-264

  17. Constraints on Baryon-Dominated Cosmological Models from Light Element Abundances and CMB Fluctuations

    • John E. Beckman
    Pages 265-278

  18. Can Halos Consist of Compact Stellar Remnants?

    • Joseph Silk
    Pages 279-294

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 295-298
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The visible universe is a small perturbation on the material universe. Zwicky and Sinclair Smith in the 1930s gave evidence of invisible mass in the Coma and Virgo Clusters of Galaxies. Better optical data has only served to confound their critics and the X-ray data confirms that the gravitational potentials are many times larger than those predicted on the basis of the observed stars. Dynamical analyses of individual galaxies have found that significant extra mass is needed to explain their rotational velocities. On much larger scales, tens of megaparsecs, there is suggestive evidence that there is even more mass per unit luminosity. What is this non-luminous stuff of which the universe is made'? How much of it is there? Need there be only one kind of stuff? There are three basic possi bili ties:- all of it is ordinary (baryonic) matter, all of it is some other kind of (non-baryonic) matter, or some of it is baryonic and some is non-baryonic.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Astronomy & Clare College, Cambridge, UK

    D. Lynden-Bell

  • Institute of Astronomy & King’s College, Cambridge, UK

    G. Gilmore

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