Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986rspta.320..543b&link_type=abstract
(Royal Society Discussion on Material Content of the Universe, London, England, Oct. 23, 24, 1985) Royal Society (London), Philo
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Astronomical Models, Dark Matter, Milky Way Galaxy, Solar Neighborhood, Density Distribution, Galactic Rotation, Late Stars, Stellar Mass
Scientific paper
The amount of dark matter in the disk of the Galaxy at the solar position is determined by comparing the observed distributions of tracer stars with the predictions obtained from different assumptions of how the unseen matter is distributed. The major uncertainties, observational and theoretical, are estimated. For all the observed samples, typical models imply that about half of the mass in the solar vicinity must be in the form of unobserved matter. The volume density of unobserved material near the sun is about 0.1 solar mass/cu pc; the corresponding column density is about 30 solar masses/cu pc. This, so far unseen, material must be in a disk with an exponential scale height of less than 0.7 kpc. All the existing observations are consistent with the unseen disk material being in the form of stars not massive enough to burn hydrogen. It is suggested that the unseen material that is required to hold up the rotation curves of galaxies and to satisfy the virial theorem for clusters of galaxies might also be in the form of low-mass stars.
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