Speaker
Mike Boylan-Kolchin
(U. of Texas at Austin)
Description
Dwarf galaxies are among the best laboratories for exploring the nature of dark matter: their high dark matter content, coupled with the large number of dwarfs in close proximity to us, enable a variety of tests that are not possible with other astrophysical systems. I will discuss our efforts to understand unique signatures of both standard cold dark matter and various alternatives (including warm, self-interacting, and ultra-light axion dark matter) with high-resolution cosmological simulations of dwarf galaxies.
