[Dark matter] Hi everyone my undergraduate research will be about dark matter (along with making a telescope in this year! How exciting!) My plan so far is to study important observations before making other progress. And I have found an interesting review paper on observation about rotation curve by Yoshiaki Sofue and Vera Rubin arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010594 However, it was written ten years ago, therefore, I would like to know if there are any other recent important observations on dark matter within the past ten years. Moreover, there were two interesting observation in this week, one suggested about the actual mass of dark matter is half what we had thought by The University of Western Australia(phys.org/news/2014-10-dark-thought-scientists.html); another one was about claiming direct observation on dark matter by University of Leicester (dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2797310/dark-matter-particles-finally-coming-core-sun.html) (astronomy is indeed a blessed field in recent years!) If you have studied these paper, I would love to listen to your opinion on this. Also, I would love to listen to any suggestions on undergraduate research or even research! Thanks for your reading, Best wishes, Shing
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:01:14 +0000