Tidal Debris Posing as Dark Galaxies
Abstract
Debris sent into the intergalactic medium during tidal collisions has received much attention as it can tell us about several fundamental properties of galaxies, in particular their missing mass, both in the form of cosmological Dark Matter and so-called Lost Baryons.
- Publication:
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Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons
- Pub Date:
- May 2008
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0707.3991
- Bibcode:
- 2008IAUS..244..216D
- Keywords:
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- Galaxies:interactions;
- galaxies:peculiar;
- galaxies: dwarf;
- galaxies: clusters: individual: Virgo;
- galaxies: individual (VirgoHI21;
- NGC 4254;
- NGC 4694;
- VCC 2062);
- (cosmology:) dark matter;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 4 figures, to appear in IAU symposium 244 "Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons"