A correlation between the amount of dark matter in elliptical galaxies and their shape
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2014-07-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We discuss the correlation between the dark matter content of elliptical galaxies and their ellipticities. We then explore a mechanism for which the correlation would emerge naturally. Such mechanism leads to identifying the dark matter particles to gravitons. A similar mechanism is known in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and is essential to our understanding of the mass and structure of baryonic matter.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.7496,
title = {A correlation between the amount of dark matter in elliptical galaxies and their shape},
author = {Alexandre Deur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.7496},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Proceeding for a presentation given at Duke University, Apr. 2014. Based on A. D. PLB B676, 21 (2009); A.D, MNRAS, 438, 1535 (2014)