The Milky Way's Dark Matter halo

Maria Benito (NICPB, Tallinn)

24-Nov-2020, 14:15-15:45 (3 years ago)

Abstract: The distribution of Dark Matter in galaxies is one remarkable output of structure formation in a cosmological context, and an important input for searches of the nature of Dark Matter. In this talk, I will describe the sources of uncertainty that affect the observational determination of the Dark Matter content in the Milky Way, and I will quantify their effect on the estimated Dark Matter density by means of a data-driven analysis. I will further show that the uncertainties on the Dark Matter distribution, and their impact on searches of physics beyond the standard model, stays sizable even with state-of-the-art determinations of astrophysical quantities of relevance (such as the Sun’s circular velocity and its distance to the Galactic center).

astrophysicscondensed mattergeneral relativity and quantum cosmologyhigh energy physicsmathematical physicsclassical physicsgeneral physics

Audience: researchers in the topic


Theoretical physics seminar @ Tartu

Organizers: Laur Järv, Maria-Jose Guzman*
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