Name: Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies
Creator: PC VanderKruit
Keywords: GALACTIC DISKS, LIGHT, HALO, STELLAR KINEMATICS, 0103 physical sciences, COLOR, MASS, SURFACE PHOTOMETRY, 01 natural sciences, 6. Clean water

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Part of book or chapter of book , Article , Conference object , Other literature type 01 Jan 1995 English Publisher:Springer NetherlandsJournal:Symposium - International Astronomical Union, volume 164, pages 205-214 (issn: 0074-1809,

Authors: PC VanderKruit;

doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-0125-7_19 , 10.1017/s0074180900108587 , 10.1023/a:1002721119764

handle: 11370/30438f44-b2df-48ec-8844-74aaaf9af2f2 , 11370/e4db005c-5a9e-442f-8c26-48f88170d9ba

Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies

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Abstract

In this review I will concentrate on three questions concerning the issue of dark matter in spiral galaxies. In the first place (and for the most part) I will discuss the analysis of rotation curves and the question whether the “maximum–disk hypothesis” is valid. Then I will discuss independent measurements of the disk mass distribution from the thickness of stellar and HI disks. Then follows a review of estimates of the flattening of the dark halos and a short discussion on the possible nature of the dark matter.

Related Organizations

University of Groningen
Netherlands
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
Netherlands

Keywords

GALACTIC DISKS, LIGHT, HALO, STELLAR KINEMATICS, COLOR, MASS, SURFACE PHOTOMETRY

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