Speaker
Gerry Gilmore
Description
New dynamical studies and discovery searches for the smallest dark matter dominated
galaxies will be presented. Dark matter in dSph galaxies has a mean volume mass
density within the stellar distribution which always has a very low value of about
5GeV/c^2 cm^-3. The mass profiles appear cored, not cusped as predicted by
Cold DM models. Galaxies are embedded in dark matter halos with these properties;
small systems containing dark matter are not observed.
