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Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

P.C. Van Der Kruit
P.C. Van Der Kruit*
Affiliation:
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, the Netherlands (vdkruit@astro.rug.nl)

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In this review I will concentrate on three questions concerning the issue of dark matter in spiral galaxies. In the first place (and for the most part) I will discuss the analysis of rotation curves and the question whether the “maximum–disk hypothesis” is valid. Then I will discuss independent measurements of the disk mass distribution from the thickness of stellar and HI disks. Then follows a review of estimates of the flattening of the dark halos and a short discussion on the possible nature of the dark matter.

Type
Session 5: Dark Matter in Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 164: Stellar Populations , 1995 , pp. 205 - 214
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

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