The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is in the process of finalizing its ultimate scientific analyses. Later this year, we expect the DES Supernova survey to release a constraint on the dark energy equation of…
Sukanya Chakrabarti (Rochester Institute of Technology/IAS)
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For more than a century now, our inference of the mass distributions (including dark matter) in galaxies have been based on modeling the positions and velocities of stars, i.e., using kinematic analyses,…
Massive galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda (M31) form in part from the accretion of less massive galaxies. The chemical and dynamical properties of disrupted galaxies, in the form of streams and…