Ay 127 Readings: Dark Matter
The Nature of the Dark Matter:
I was unable to find a single, comprehensive, modern review of this subject,
but there is a lot on
astro-ph.
A good, oldish review by Salucci & Persic (1997), available at
astro-ph/9703027
An old review by V. Trimble
(1987, ARAA, 25, 425)
provides a good historical introduction. Take a look also at
astro-ph/0002363
Some of the recent debate on the shape of dark halo density profiles is reviewed,
e.g., by Navarro (2002, IAU Symp. 208), available at
astro-ph/0110680
The subject is now divided into two parts: baryonic and non-baryonic DM.
On the baryonic front, the interesting possibilities include
MACHOs,
cold gas, and
warm gas.
A very brief (and perhaps biased) summary is given by Freese et al.,
astro-ph/0002058
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For MACHOs, a good recent review is by Popowski et al. (2003), available at
astro-ph/0304464
or search the
astro-ph
Another older but good, short summary of references is given by Paczynski,
astro-ph/9910327
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For cold gas, see the paper by Combes & Pfenniger,
astro-ph/9602145
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For warm gas, see, e.g., the paper by Cen & Ostriker,
ApJ, 514, 1 (1999)
On the non-baryonic front, the currently favored candidates include massive
neutrinos, WIMPs and axions.
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A good introductory review is by D. Spergel, in "Unsolved Problems in
Astrophysics", eds. J. Bahcall and J. Ostriker, p. 221, Princeton Univ.
Press (1997); QB461.U58 1997. Also available at
astro-ph/9603026
also avaialable
here
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A popular review by Khalil & Munoz (2002), available at
hep-ph/0110122
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A review by N. Forengo (2002), available at
hep-ph/0201156
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Several papers by M. Kamionkowski, e.g.,
astro-ph/9809214,
hep-ph/9710467,
or
hep-ph/9609531.
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Marc also recommended
several other papers.
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Laboratory detection experiments are discussed, e.g., in the reviews by:
Morales (2002),
available as
astro-ph/0112550
Baudis & Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (2000), available as
astro-ph/0003434
Ramachers (1999), available as
astro-ph/9911260.
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Another good review is by Bergstrom,
hep-ph/0002126