Is Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies Cold Gas? I. Observational Constraints and Dynamical Clues About Galaxy Evolution
Astrophysics
2011-05-23 v1
Abstract
Based on dynamical constraints about the Hubble sequence evolution, observational data and a number of "conspiracies", we propose that the dark matter around spiral galaxies is in the form of cold gas, essentially in molecular form and rotationally supported. (full A&A paper (in press) available by anonymous ftp at obssd8.unige.ch in /pub/fractal as postscript file: dm_paper_I.ps (170k), or papers I & II + figures as a compressed tar file dm_papers.Z.tar (2.1 Mb)).
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9311043,
title = {Is Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies Cold Gas? I. Observational Constraints and Dynamical Clues About Galaxy Evolution},
author = {D. Pfenniger and F. Combes and L. Martinet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9311043},
year = {2011}
}
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15 pages, uuencoded compressed postscript, OBSGE-DM-I