Measuring the local dark matter density

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2010-01-07

arxiv.org/abs/1001.1038v2

AIP Conf. Proc. 1240 (2010) 411-412

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

3 pages, 1 figure, to be published in "Hunting for the Dark: The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation", Malta, 19-23 Oct. 2009, eds

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3458549

We examine systematic problems in determining the local matter density from the vertical motion of stars, i.e. the 'Oort limit'. Using collisionless simulations and a Monte Carlo Markov Chain technique, we determine the data quality required to detect local dark matter at its expected density. We find that systematic errors are more important than observational errors and apply our technique to Hipparcos data to reassign realistic error bars to the local dark matter density.

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