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Kavli Foundation Roundtable on DES Dwarf Candidates and Dark Matter

June 24, 2015

Kavli Foundation Roundtable on DES Dwarf Candidates and Dark Matter

Dwarf Galaxies
CCAPP Alumna, Andrea Albert, now currently a postdoc at SLAC National Accelerator Lab, was featured along with Alex Drlica-Wagner and Josh Frieman in a roundtable discussion on the new dwarf candidates from DES.
 
 
"...These miniature galaxies - the first discovered in a decade - shine with a mere billionth of our galaxy's brightness and each contains a million times less mass. Astronomers believe the vast majority of material in dwarf galaxies is dark matter, a mysterious substance composing about 80 percent of all matter in the universe. Dwarf galaxies have therefore emerged as prime targets for gathering potential clues about dark matter's composition..."