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- From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Hubble constant?
- Date: 16 Aug 92 19:15:17 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- References: <Aug.4.18.52.26.1992.8471@ruhets.rutgers.edu> <1992Aug14.211056.23716@galois.mit.edu>
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- >In article <Aug.13.16.31.25.1992.25521@ruhets.rutgers.edu> bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes:
- >
- >>I like the
- >>baryonic possibilities because we already know that baryons exist,
- >>and in addition I would rather that dark matter were something
- >>astronomically interesting, like so-called Pop III star remnants
- >>or whatever, rather than a bunch of dull photinos.
-
- For those of you interesting in the Dark Matter problem, I would like
- to call your attention to an article in last week's Nature reporting the
- results of a survey of low-mass stars in our galaxy and an extrapolation
- of the mass spectrum which results. The conclusion is that low-mass,
- very-low-magnitude stars can account for much, but not all of the
- dark matter in our galaxy. I'm not an expert, so I can't judge the
- credibility of the results, but I can at least say that the authors
- make what seems to be a convincing case that we have up to now undercounted
- low-mass stars.
-
- -Scott
-
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- Scott I. Chase "The question seems to be of such a character
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
- and some mathematician were to tell me that it
- had been definitely settled, I think I would
- immediately drop dead again." - Vandiver
-