The annual meeting of the DALI (Dark-photons & Axion-Like particles Interferometer) experiment, an international collaboration to develop an astroparticle...
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NewsThe IAC hosts the annual meeting of the DALI experiment to search for dark matter
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NewsThe IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for the axion, proposed component of dark matter
The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern...
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PublicationThe Kinematic Status and Mass Content of the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
We present VLT FLAMES spectroscopic observations (R~6500) in the Ca II triplet region for 470 probable kinematic members of the Sculptor (Scl) dwarf spheroidal...
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NewsThe latest advances in the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and their consequences for problems such as that of dark matter have been presented
HC2NP2019, the second conference on "Hadronic Contributions to New Physics Searches" organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in Puerto de la...
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PublicationThe lens SW05 J143454.4+522850: a fossil group at redshift 0.6?
Fossil groups are considered the end product of natural galaxy group evolution in which group members sink towards the centre of the gravitational potential due...
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PublicationThe mass content of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy
We present a new determination of the mass content of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy, based on a novel approach which takes into account the two distinct...
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PublicationThe mass of our Galaxy from satellite proper motions in the Gaia era
We use Gaia DR2 systemic proper motions of 45 satellite galaxies to constrain the mass of the Milky Way using the scale-free mass estimator of Watkins et al....
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PublicationThe Missing Satellites of the Magellanic Clouds? Gaia Proper Motions of the Recently Discovered Ultra-faint Galaxies
According to LCDM theory, hierarchical evolution occurs on all mass scales, implying that satellites of the Milky Way should also have companions. The recent...
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NewsThe mystery of the galaxy with no dark matter: solved!
A group of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has clarified one of the mysteries of 2018 in the field of extragalactic astrophysics...