Dynamics
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- What do you know about the galactic rotation curve?
- How are distances measured on it?
- What's dark matter?
- How do we know it exists?
- What is the dark matter fraction for the MW? Universe? Why the difference? (MT)
- What is the circular velocity of the sun around the galactic center? What is its distance from the GC? Orbital period?
- Plot the position of the sun on a galactic rotation curve
- How will u estimate the following WITHOUT using the Jeans equation: radial dependence of the density of dark matter, the amount of DM in the local neighborhood
- Does the virial theorem hold in General Relativity?