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Contains reports on one research project.National Science Foundation (Grant GP-2495)National Institutes of Health (Grant MH-04737-04)U. S. Air Force (Electronics Systems Division) under Contract AF 19(628)-2487National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NsG-496
Galactic Nonlinear Dynamic Model
We develop a model for spiral galaxies based on a nonlinear realization of
the Newtonian dynamics starting from the momentum and mass conservations in the
phase space. The radial solution exhibits a rotation curve in qualitative
accordance with the observational data.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure. Talk given in the 7th Alexander Friedmann
International Seminar, June 29 to July 5, 2008, Joao Pessoa, PB, Brazi
Why we need to see the dark matter to understand the dark energy
The cosmological concordance model contains two separate constituents which
interact only gravitationally with themselves and everything else, the dark
matter and the dark energy. In the standard dark energy models, the dark matter
makes up some 20% of the total energy budget today, while the dark energy is
responsible for about 75%. Here we show that these numbers are only robust for
specific dark energy models and that in general we cannot measure the abundance
of the dark constituents separately without making strong assumptions.Comment: 4 pages, to be published in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series
as a contribution to the 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physic
Mass and Light in the Universe
We present a weak lensing and photometric study of six half by half degree
fields observed at the CFHT using the UH8K CCD mosaic camera. The fields were
observed for a total of 2 hours each in I and V, resulting in catalogs
containing ~ 20 000 galaxies per passband per field. We use V-I color and I
magnitude to select bright early type galaxies at redshifts 0.1 < z < 0.9. We
measure the gravitational shear from faint galaxies in the range 21 < m_I < 25
from a composite catalog and find a strong correlation with that predicted from
the early types if they trace the mass with mass-to-light ratio 300\pm75 h (in
solar units) for a flat (Omega_m0 = 0.3, Omega_l0 = 0.7) lambda cosmology and
400\pm100 h for Einstein-de Sitter. We make two-dimensional reconstructions of
the mass surface density. Cross-correlation of the measured mass surface
density with that predicted from the early type galaxy distribution shows a
strong peak at zero lag (significant at the 5.2-sigma level). We azimuthally
average the cross- and auto-correlation functions. We conclude that the
profiles are consistent with early type galaxies tracing mass on scales of > 45
arcsec (> 200 kpc at z = 0.5). We sub-divide our bright early type galaxies by
redshift and obtain similar conclusions. These mass-to-light ratios imply
\Omega_m0 = 0.10\pm0.02 (\Omega_m0 = 0.13\pm0.03 for Einstein-de Sitter) of
closure density.Comment: 27 pages, 19 figs (4 ps, 15 gif), 4 tables, accepted for publication
in Ap.J. (email Gillian for better resolution ps versions of gif greyscale
plots
Bound on the Dark Matter Density in the Solar System from Planetary Motions
High precision planet orbital data extracted from direct observation,
spacecraft explorations and laser ranging techniques enable to put a strong
constraint on the maximal dark matter density of a spherical halo centered
around the Sun. The maximal density at Earth's location is of the order
and shows only a mild dependence on the slope of the halo
profile, taken between 0 and -2. This bound is somewhat better than that
obtained from the perihelion precession limits.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
Central Charge Anomalies in 2D Sigma Models with Twisted Mass
We discuss the central charge in supersymmetric sigma models in
two dimensions. The target space is a symmetric K\"ahler manifold, CP is
an example. The U(1) isometries allow one to introduce twisted masses in the
model. At the classical level the central charge contains Noether charges of
the U(1) isometries and a topological charge which is an integral of a total
derivative of the Killing potentials. At the quantum level the topological part
of the central charge acquires anomalous terms. A bifermion term was found
previously, using supersymmetry which relates it to the superconformal anomaly.
We present a direct calculation of this term using a number of regularizations.
We derive, for the first time, the bosonic part in the central charge anomaly.
We construct the supermultiplet of all anomalies and present its superfield
description. We also discuss a related issue of BPS solitons in the CP(1) model
and present an explicit form for the curve of marginal stability.Comment: 30 pages, 1 figure, references adde
Dark matter from cosmic defects on galactic scales?
We discuss the possible dynamical role of extended cosmic defects on galactic
scales, specifically focusing on the possibility that they may provide the dark
matter suggested by the classical problem of galactic rotation curves. We
emphasize that the more standard defects (such as Goto-Nambu strings) are
unsuitable for this task, but show that more general models (such as transonic
wiggly strings) could in principle have a better chance. In any case, we show
that observational data severely restricts any such scenarios.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. D (Brief Reports). v2: Reference added and
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