X-Ray Constraints on Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters and Elliptical Galaxies: A View from Chandra and XMM

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20 October 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0310579

Abstract

I review constraints on the radial density profiles and ellipticities of the dark matter obtained from recent X-ray observations with Chandra and XMM of elliptical galaxies and galaxy clusters and discuss their implications, especially for the self-interacting dark matter model.

Keywords

ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES
GALAXY CLUSTERS
RAY CONSTRAINTS
DARK MATTER
GALAXIES
CHANDRA
MATTER
XMM

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