A faint glow to trace the dark matter

Authors
Date and time
27 Nov 2018 - 11:30 Europe/London
Address

Aula

Talk language
English
Slides language
English
Serie number
1
Description

The faint glow produced by the stripped stars of the galaxies within clusters is shown to follow the dark matter distribution with extreme accuracy. In this contribution, we will show how the Intra-Cluster light can be used to trace the dark matter distribution of galaxy clusters just using deep imaging. This finding opens up the possibility of exploring the distribution of dark matter in hundreds of galaxy clusters and test the current LCDM paradigm.