• DOI:10.1017/S1743921308019790
Corpus ID: 18252986

Precision astrometry, galactic mergers, halo substructure and local dark matter

@article{Majewski2007PrecisionAG,
  title={Precision astrometry, galactic mergers, halo substructure and local dark matter},
  author={S. Majewski},
  journal={arXiv: Astrophysics},
  year={2007},
  volume={3},
  pages={450-457}
}

S. Majewski

Published 2007

Physics

arXiv: Astrophysics

The concordance Cold Dark Matter model for the formation of structure in the Universe, while remarkably successful at describing observations on large scales, has a number of problems on galactic scales. The Milky Way and its satellite system provide a key laboratory for exploring dark matter (DM) in this regime, but some of the most definitive tests of local DM await microarcsecond astrometry, such as will be delivered by the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM Planetquest). I discuss several… CONTINUE READING

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