Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-03-26
Lect.Notes Phys. 616 (2003) 66-77
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 7 figures. Invited lecture to the 8th Adriatic Meeting: Particle Physics in the New Millennium, Dubrovnik 4-14 Sep.
Scientific paper
We review the most recent evidence for the amazing properties of the density distribution of dark matter around spiral galaxies. Their rotation curves, coadded according to the galaxy luminosity, conform to an universal profile which can be represented as the sum of an exponential thin disk plus a spherical halo with a flat density core. From dwarfs to giants, these halos feature an inner constant density region. The fine structure of dark matter halos is obtained from the kinematics of a number of suitable low-luminosity disk galaxies. The halo circular velocity increases linearly with radius out to the edge of the stellar disk, implying a constant dark halo density over the entire disk region. The properties of halos around normal spirals provide substantial evidence of a discrepancy between the mass distributions predicted in the Cold Dark Matter scenario and those actually detected around galaxies.
Borriello Annamaria
Salucci Paolo
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