Dark matter in massive galaxies

Abstract

The spatial distributions of luminous and dark matter in massive early-type galaxies reflect the formation processes which shaped these systems. This article reviews the predictions of cosmological simulations for the dark and baryonic components of ETGs, and the observational constraints from lensing, hydrostatic X-ray gas athmospheres, and outer halo stellar dynamics.

Invited review, 10 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX. To appear in Proc. of IAU Symposium 295 held in Beijing, China, August 2012, eds. D. Thomas, A. Pasquali and I. Ferreras, Cambridge Univ. Press

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