Dark Matter in Faint Galactic Satellites
Louis Strigari
KIPAC, Stanford
The population of known Milky Way satellite galaxies has increased
significantly in recent years. Follow up spectroscopy on many of these
objects has revealed them to be gravitationally bound, extremely dark
matter dominated objects. In this talk, I will discuss observation
and modeling of these objects, following a path of discovery in optical
surveys, to targeted follow up spectroscopy, and then to searches for dark
matter annihilation signals using high energy gamma-rays and neutrinos. I
will then discuss the observations in a broader cosmological context,
and show how forthcoming large scale galaxy surveys, in combination with
probes of the high energy Universe, will provide an exciting opportunity
to study dark matter on the smallest scales in the Universe and to uncover
the nature of dark matter.
Date: | Tuesday, 11 January 2011 |
Time: | 16:00 |
Where: | McGill University |
| Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103) |
Contact: | Robert Rutledge |
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