A galaxy lacking dark matter

Pieter van Dokkum (), Shany Danieli, Yotam Cohen, Allison Merritt, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Roberto Abraham, Jean Brodie, Charlie Conroy, Deborah Lokhorst, Lamiya Mowla, Ewan O’Sullivan and Jielai Zhang
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Pieter van Dokkum: Yale University
Shany Danieli: Yale University
Yotam Cohen: Yale University
Allison Merritt: Yale University
Aaron J. Romanowsky: San Jose State University
Roberto Abraham: University of Toronto
Jean Brodie: University of California Observatories
Charlie Conroy: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Deborah Lokhorst: University of Toronto
Lamiya Mowla: Yale University
Ewan O’Sullivan: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Jielai Zhang: University of Toronto

Nature, 2018, vol. 555, issue 7698, 629-632

Abstract: Galaxies normally have far more dark matter than normal matter, but the dynamics of objects within the ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC1052–DF2 suggest that it has a very little dark matter component.

Date: 2018
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