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GLAST Lunch - Luigi Costamante
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GLAST Lunch - Louie Strigari
| What | GLAST lunch |
|---|---|
| When |
29 November 07 from 12:15 am to 01:15 pm |
| Where | 3rd Floor KAVLI Conf Room |
| Contact Name | David Paneque |
| Contact Email | dpaneque@slac.stanford.edu |
| Contact Phone | 650-926-5542 |
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Dark Matter, GLAST, and New Milky Way Satellites
The low-luminosity, dark matter dominated dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way provide an ideal laboratory to study the properties of
dark matter on small scales. I will discuss how both the well-known satellites and the newly discovered satellites by SDSS fit into the
standard model of cold dark matter, focusing on the prospects for detecting gamma-rays from annihilating dark matter in these systems.
Due to their proximity and low intrinsic gamma-ray backgrounds, several of the newly discovered satellites provide perhaps the best
targets for indirect dark matter detection with GLAST. I will also discuss how the cosmological gamma-ray background can be generally
used to search for signals from alternative dark matter.
MASS: Doug Applegate