3 ECTS PhD-school: Dark Matter; Distribution, origin, detection and production

Cosmology, Astronomy and Dark Matter 1

26 Sep 2016, 09:00

1h

H422 (conference room, not for teaching) (Fysiska institutionen-Physics Department)

Speaker

Prof. Justin Read (University of Surrey)

Description

- Brief review of observables, measurement and timescales in astronomy - Classical evidences for dark matter: galaxy clusters and the virial theorem; rotation curves - What dark matter is not

Presentation Materials

Exercises

Read-problems_1.pdf

Lecture-notes

lecturenotes_darkmatter_justinread-v3.pdf