See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/48202637 DMAW 2010 LEGACY the Presentation Review: Dark Matter in Galaxies with its Explanatory Notes Article · February 2011 Source: arXiv CITATIONS READS 16 97 3 authors: Paolo Salucci Christiane Frigerio Martins Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste Universidade Federal Fluminense 213 PUBLICATIONS 7,009 CITATIONS 10 PUBLICATIONS 749 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE Andrea Lapi Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste 166 PUBLICATIONS 3,540 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Extragalactic radio sources View project The Nature of dark matter from its astrophysical evidences. View project All content following this page was uploaded by Paolo Salucci on 26 May 2014. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file.
DMAW 2010 LEGACY the Presentation Review : Dark Matter in Galaxies with its Explanatory Notes arXiv:1102.1184v1 [astro-ph.CO] 6 Feb 2011 Paolo Salucci 1 , Christiane Frigerio Martins 2 , and Andrea Lapi 3 1 SISSA/ISAS, via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy 2 INFES/Univ. Federal Fluminense, av. Jo˜ ao Jazbik, 28470 Santo Antˆ onio de P´ adua, RJ, Brazil 3 Dip. Fisica, Univ. di Roma ”Tor Vergata”, Via Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy With the scientific collaboration of Elena Aprile, Mariangela Bernardi, Albert Bosma, Erwin de Blok, Ken Freeman, Refael Gavazzi, Gianfranco Gentile, Gerry Gilmore, Uli Klein, Gary Mamon, Claudia Maraston, Nicola Napolitano, Pierre Salati, Chiara Tonini, Mark Wilkinson, Irina Yegorova. With the support and encouragement of A. Burkert, J. Bailin, P. Biermann, A. Bressan, S. Capozziello, L. Danese, C. Frenk, S. Leach , M. Roos, V. Rubin 1 General Introduction The Journal Club Talk ”Dark Matter in Galaxies” was delivered within the ”Dark Matter Awareness Week (1-8 December 2010)” at 140 institutes in 46 countries and was followed by 4200 people. More in- formation on DMAW can be found at its website: www.sissa.it/ap/dmg/index.html and a short movie that documents this worldwide initiative at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOBit8a-1Fw . For this DMAW 2010 talk there was a standard reference presentation with explaining notes prepared by a coordinated pool of leading scientists in the field, which the various speakers adapted and delivered in their Institutes so as to suit local circumstances, audiences and their own personal preferences. Importantly, the speakers subsequently provided us with comments on the reference material and on the initiative itself (see Section 1.3 to download them). After the event, in response to participants’ feedback, we improved and upgraded the guideline material to a ”Presentation Review” on the subject ”Dark Matter in Galaxies”, for which we provide a .pptx file and the related Explanatory Notes. This is described below together with suggestions of who might be interested in using it and how to do it. 1.1 What is the Presentation Review + Explanatory Notes? This is an innovative scientific product, introduced for fostering scientific debate on Cosmology and for rapidly diffusing, among the scientific community, results in a field where, we believe, knowledge is rapidly growing. Supported by the large number of speakers delivering the DMAW 2010 talk, by their reactions and by those of their numerous audiences, we decided to address the whole community 1
of cosmologists and astrophysicists. We prepared this Presentation Review, convinced that there is a generalized request of knowledge about the DM mystery at galactic scale. The Presentation is a Review Talk at post-graduate level, (2 x 45) minutes long, on the specific subject: ”The distribution of Dark (and Luminous) Matter in Galaxies”, although other cosmological issues (e.g. galaxy formation) are treated, but from the phenomenological perspective of the galaxy mass distribution. The Presentation Review is not a PowerPoint translation of an already existing Review Paper, but it has been prepared directly as a Presentation on the above described subject. The Explanatory Notes are not the written version of the Presentation, but concepts, formulas and references that help with understanding the slides and preparing an eventual speaker to comment on them to an audience. In detail, their scope is to enable the user who reads them to follow the Presentation easily and to get the greatest benefit from it. The user who, instead, chooses to carefully study them, would be able herself/himself to deliver the Review Talk. For this reason, there is some additional material in the Notes (arguments, references, formulas) for the benefit of a prospective speaker or any user who wants to deepen the knowledge on the subject. The presentation runs also two movies in prefixed slides. These movies are especially devised for the Presentation and concern the Cosmological Simulations and The Universal Rotation Curve of galaxies. It may be obvious, however, it could still be worth to stress that the Explanatory Notes without the .ppt Presentation are worthless. On the other hand, the Presentation Review file without the Notes is difficult to “use”. An other clarification maybe necessary: we are envisaging this Review as being one section of a virtual course on “Physical Cosmology” organized as follows: Big Bang Cosmology (3 x 45’), Structure formation (4 x 45’), Dark Ages and objects at high redshifts (3 x 45’), The distribution of DM in Groups, Clusters and larger scales (2 x 45’), The distribution of DM in Galaxies (2 x 45’), The physics of baryons in forming the luminous structure of Universe (4 x 45’), Candidates for the DM particle and their detection (3 x 45’), Alternatives to Dark Matter (1 x 45’). We have not written out this programme to anticipate a future project, but to frame this Review Talk in its Cosmological Context. More specifically, our Review aims to bring the user up to a good level of knowledge of its core subject: the Dark and Luminous matter distribution in galaxies. For other topics, which are occasionally touched on by the review, the user is redirected to more specialized reviews, lecture notes and books. And, of course, a number of issues involving DM will not be dealt in this Review. Let us also stress that, contrary to the situation for written reviews, with this one it is up to the users, and not only the authors, to establish the relative and absolute importance of each statement, formula, reference and plot in the Presentation and eventually convey this to others. 1.2 Who may this Presentation Review + EN be useful to? In order to avoid disappointments, it is worth to stress that this Review is neither designed as a public outreach talk on Dark Matter, nor as a Seminar that advertises a hot topic in Cosmology. The target of this Presentation Review is the ”Community” of thousands of physicists and astro- physicists whose work already touches, in many different ways, the subject of dark matter in galaxies and that would like to become more aware of the phenomenology behind this subject, possibly relevant for their research. The success of DMAW 2010 has shown that this community is wide and that our dedicated efforts are well received. We hope that many people will be interested in downloading this Presentation + the Explanatory notes: i) People who would like to follow this innovative approach so as to learn more about this increas- ingly important subject in Cosmology, Extragalactic Astrophysics and Astroparticle Physics, which they may often meet with in their own research work. ii) PhD Students in any field of Astrophysics and Astroparticles iii) Newcomers in Cosmology from different research fields. 2
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