Lost and found dark matter in elliptical galaxies

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7059, 2005, Pages 707-710

  Dekel, A ^a,b,c,d   Stoehr, F ^b   Mamon, G A ^b,c   Cox, T J ^e   Novak, G S ^d   Primack, J R ^d  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b INSTITUT D'ASTROPHYSIQUE DE PARIS   (France)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; ORBITS;

DARK MATTERS; GALAXY FORMATION; HALOES; STELLAR ORBITS;

GALAXIES;

ASTRONOMY;

ARTICLE; COSMOS; GRAVITY; MASS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TIDE; VELOCITY;

EID: 27144502780     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03970     Document Type: Article

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