RSAA Colloquium - Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn
Title: Do baryons dominate the centres of high-redshift galaxies?
Date & time
Date/time
22 Aug 2023 11:00am
Speaker
Speakers
Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn (University of Sydney)
Cost
Cost
Cost per person: 0.00
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Abstract: NFW would have us believe that dark matter dominates the centres of galaxies, but this has never been observed in massive galaxies, and certainly not in the Milky Way and M31 where baryons dominate out to at least 10 kpc in radius. So what about early galaxies? Can we find NFW cusps here that were subsequently wiped out? This is looking increasingly unlikely as well -- baryons may have always dominated the inner parts of galaxies. I will examine implications of baryon domination that will be testable with JWST deep fields (e.g. JADES) in the coming months.
Location
Duffield Lecture Theatre, Duffield Building, Mt Stromlo Observatory or ZOOM