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The velocity dispersion of LMC Carbon stars: possible detection of a kinematically distinct population
David S. Graff, Andrew P. Gould, Nicholas Suntzeff +2
We analyze the velocity residuals of 551 carbon stars relative to a rotating-disk model of the inner of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We find that the great…
astro-ph1999
Limits on Stellar Objects as the Dark Matter of Our Halo: Nonbaryonic Dark Matter Seems to be Required
Katherine Freese, Brian Fields, David Graff
The nature of the dark matter in the Halo of our Galaxy remains a mystery. Arguments are presented that the dark matter does not consist of ordinary stellar or substellar objects,…